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Here is the summary for the movie Ice Age 3 from imdb

After the events of "Ice Age: The Meltdown", life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own, and so steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in a strange underground world where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left and right, and meeting up with a one-eyed weasel known as Buck who hunts dinosaurs intently. Written by Theshapeshifter

Here is a review for the movie Ice Age 3 from dvdtalk.

"Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" isn't an ambitious, event movie sequel in the same fashion as perhaps "Ice Age: The Meltdown" was softly gunning for. It's more of an agreeable installment of television than a magnificent animated effort. This is not a criticism. In fact, it's perhaps the reason why "Dawn" is such a charming film. With a relaxed mood, a playful cast, and a plot that doesn't sweat itself into a pointless sense of importance, "Dawn" is mild sauce but tremendously entertaining, with an easy-peasy celebratory attitude that extends to the picture's lively 3-D visual scheme.

Now an improbable herd, Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo), Diego (Denis Leary), Crash (Seann William Scott), and Eddie (Josh Peck) are getting ready to settle down as they await the birth of Manny (Ray Romano) and Ellie's (Queen Latifah) first child. Feeling an uninvited vibe, Sid wanders off, stumbling across three dinosaur eggs that he assumes a motherly responsibility for. When the actual dinosaur parent shows up to retrieve the now-hatched offspring, it sends Sid and the babies to a world underneath the ice where dinosaurs and dangerous plant life have survived. Off to retrieve their dim-witted pal, the herd comes across Buck (Simon Pegg), a weasel who roams the underworld on the hunt for the massive dinosaur that took his eye. With Buck as their guide, the herd enters the dino world to rescue Sid, hoping Ellie holds off on labor pains until they can return to their frozen world.

What felt so forced, unpolished, and derivative about 2002's "Ice Age" has been successfully smoothed out during the last two sequels. "Meltdown" turned botched whimsy into a colorful community atmosphere, inviting more characters and humanity to inform a concept that was almost strictly played for tiresome gags the first time around. For the first 15 minutes, "Dawn" endeavors to shake the plot up, sniffing around for something suitably dramatic to coerce the actors to return. The result is a lethargic pass at third-wheel motivations for Diego and Sid that feels harshly manufactured to give the screenwriters something to do. Thankfully, "Dawn" quickly waves off the needless psychological obstacles once the dinosaur adventure begins, settling down to resuscitate old charms and introduce a wonderful new character.

Pilfering cues from Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World," "Dawn" takes the 3-D lead and targets a lively adventure inspiration, plunging into the dino landscape to permit the characters a chance to run through numerous slapstick and action situations. With personalities firmly established, directors Carlos Saldanha and Mike Thurmeier hand "Dawn" over to the colorful locales, dangerous predators, and adorable infant dino shenanigans. The picture doesn't strain to find a higher purpose to justify itself, and the absence of responsibility permits the movie to, gasp, have some fun with itself. Call it one-dimensional, but it's never lazy. "Dawn" enjoys an environment of comfort, allowing the characters to interact without the burden of overt growth. Freshness is actually encouraged by the introduction of Buck, a comedic hunter with a leaf eye-patch who's been lurking solo in the lost world for one too many years. The ensemble of voices makes for a silly good time, but Pegg elevates the material with his take on Buck's simmering madness and swashbuckling, weasel-elastic heroism. He's a welcome addition to this cornucopia of animal neuroses.

"Dawn" flies high on the back of birds, swings low with treacherous dino-bone-bridge challenges (one involving laughing gas), and provides some more time with everyone's (excluding me) favorite punchline, the diminutive, nut-lovin' Scrat. "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" is certainly a familiar cocktail of cartoon accomplishments and luxurious CG vistas, but a cozy one, confident with its brand of humor. The simplicity is refreshing, opening the film up to hundreds of smaller pleasures and laughs, keeping the franchise on solid, inviting ground.

7/05/2009 07:53:00 AM
Categories: Movies Starting with I. Author: kevin

Here is the summary for the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 from imdb

A new family moves into the house on Elm Street, and before long, the kids are again having nightmares about deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger. This time, Freddy attempts to possess a teenage boy to cause havoc in the real world, and can only be overcome if the boy's sweetheart can master her fear. Written by David Thiel {d-thiel@uiuc.edu}

Jesse Walsh and his family have moved into Nancy Thompson's old house on Elm Street. No sooner are they moved in than Jesse begins to have horrific nightmares - ones that feature a burned man in a dirty red & green sweater, with knives on the fingers of his right hand. His neighbor & new sweetheart, Lisa, discovers the truth behind Fred Krueger and his horrible murder spree. Freddy vows to take over Jesse's body to continue his vile crimes against the Elm Street residents. Soon, people close to Jesse start dying violently. Will Lisa's love for Jesse be enough to help him overpower the demonic presence inside him? Written by Derek O'Cain

6/27/2009 01:04:00 AM
Categories: Movies Starting with A, Movies Starting with N. Author: kevin

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HERE IS THE SUMMARY FOR THE MOVIE NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET FROM IMDB

On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson and a group of her friends including Tina Gray, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger. Nancy must think quickly, as Freddy tries to pick off his victims one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save you? Written by simon_hrdng

Nancy is having nightmares about a frightening, badly-scarred figure who wears a glove with razor-sharp "finger knives". She soon discovers that her friends are having similar dreams. When the kids begin to die, Nancy realizes that she must stay awake to survive. Uncovering the secret identity of the dream killer and his connection with the children of Elm Street, the girl plots to draw him out into the real world. Written by David Thiel {d-thiel@uiuc.edu}

In the early 1980's, a psychopath named Freddy Krueger - known as the Springwood Slasher - murdered several children with a glove outfitted with straight razor blades attached to the fingers. When a foolish decision by a judge sets him free, Krueger is burned alive in the boiler room where he worked by an angry mob of the parents whose children he terrorized & murdered. Years after his death, the children whose parents were responsible for Krueger's death - including Nancy Thompson, daughter of the police officer who arrested Krueger - are experiencing terrifying nightmares involving a burned man wearing a glove with razor blades on the fingers. The ghost of Freddy Krueger is haunting their dreams, and when Nancy's best friend Tina dies in her sleep violently during a dream confrontation with Krueger, Nancy realizes she must find a way to stop the evil psychopath's reign of terror - or never sleep again... Written by Derek O'Cain

Freddy Kruger is the substance of nightmares. He always appears strangely dressed and has knives on the fingers of his right hand. A group of four teenagers all begin to have the same strange dreams about Freddy and then one of them is gruesomely murdered in her sleep. The survivors soon realise that if Freddy kills them in their sleep, then they will die in real life too. Thus begins an ordeal of wakefulness as they try to find some way to stop Freddy. Written by Goth {brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za}

Nancy and her friends are having violent nightmares which all feature one common element, a disfigured serial killer with a glove made of razors on his right hand. When one of the group is murdered in their sleep. Nancy realises that she must stay awake and try uncover the truth behind this phantasmic killer Freddy Krueger. Written by Action Dan {actiondan@talk21.com}

Nancy is having nightmares, violent nightmares about a mysterious badly burned man with a razor fingered glove on his right hand that calls himself Freddy. When she realizes that her friends are having the same nightmares and that one by one they are being brutally murdered in their sleep she turns to her father who does not believe her and thinks her to be crazy. After she finds out the horrible truth behind Freddy's rampage she decides to take action and bring this dream murderer out of dreamland and into the real world where she can send him straight to where he belongs. Written by SliMSeanY1402@aol.com

The Movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street is the first installment in the long Nightmare series. In the movie, former Child Molester Fred Krueger, killed burned to death by neighborhood parents, returns in the dreams of the children of those parents. He starts killing off their children through their dreams, one by one, in fairly gruesome ways. The movie is good for those interested in a "shock thriller" movie. If you're looking for "traditional" horror look elsewhere.

Picture: The digitally remastered transfer, while having some artifacts, was done well overall, and is much clearer than a video copy I viewed. The movie is presented in either widescreen or fullscreen aspect ratios.

Sound: The sound is offered in a Remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track, or the original mono soundtrack (In Dolby Digital Mono). Both soundtracks are digitally enhanced, to provide great clarity and (the the surround mode) nice effects. They did a very good job of going from a mono source to Surround Sound.

The Extras: I have to give New Line a hand, they did a good job with the extras on this DVD. The choice between mono and surround sound tracks is nice. The original theatrical trailer is presented, as are a host of DVD-Rom features (Screenplay, Trivia Game, Cast, Crew and Trivia Information.) which I could not try due to a lack of a DVD-ROM. However, my favorite extra, audio commentary, is present on this disc, and this commentary is very well done, with actors Heather Langenkamp and Jon Saxon, and Director Wes Craven. I actually found the commentary more interesting than the movie, finding how they did all the special effects so well in a time when effects couldn't be created as easily as they can now.

Conclusion: If you are a fan of this type of movie, or the series in particular, I would recommend this movie. Otherwise, if you are still interested in it, I would tell you to rent it, and watch both the movie and the commentary.

6/27/2009 01:02:00 AM
Categories: Movies Starting with A, Movies Starting with N. Author: kevin