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James Cameron is back with a new blockbuster ready to enchant you with it's magnificint effects, music and story.

Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is a man who's trapped in a wheel chair because of an injury in his back which has made him unable to move his legs. When his twin brother dies, he's contacted to replace his brother in a huge project on the planet of Pandora far, far away. The year is 2154. Man has found a very valuable thing called 'unobtanium' on Pandora, which sells for a lot of mony on Earth. The problem is that the natives who's living on Pandora, called the Na'Vi, has their home right on the spot where there's more unobtanium then anywhere else. So, to get the unobtanium, the people working there has created some kind of clones of the Na'Vi. The clones are creatures called avatar's and are created by DNA from the Na'Vi mixed with the DNA of humans. With special techniques, these avatar bodies can be controlled by the person who's DNA is in the avatar. Jake and his brother has the same DNA, so Jake can use his brother's avatar, which makes things easier for the scientists.

Jake is supposed to get to learn the Na'Vi and gain their trust to make them move from the place where they live so that man can get the unobtanium. But when Jake starts to learn about the Na'Vi, he begins to wonder who the real enemy is...

Before I saw this movie, my thoughts about it were: "This is probably pretty entertaining, but also kind of weird and to science fiction-y for me". I was right about that it's entertaining. It's extremely entertaining. James Cameron's right; this is a movie that you want to go and see. The Na'Vi is so extremly wonderfully created that you lose your breath when you watch this movie. Really takes your breath away. I was wrong about this being to weird etc. It's not. If you have some fantasy, you'll probably love this. I did. I was totally enchanted by it. It looks amazing. The flying mountains, the Na'Vi, the lights of the plants in the night, the animals, the water, the cliffs, the trees (especially the Sacred Tree) and everything else as well.

It doesn't take more then a few seconds to hate the stupid and evil men who's just thinking of money. They doesn't care if they ruin an innocent planet or the people or trees on it. That's the type of people who doesn't deserve to live, at least not as long as they go on as they do.

The music by James Horner is splended and gives you goose bumps while hearing the lovely and beautiful melodies created for this movie. If you liked the music of "Titanic", you'll probably like this as well. When the Na'Vi princess Neytiri (Zoë Seldana) is flying around the tree tops to show Jake how to act like a Na'Vi, the music grabs you with such strength that the only thing you can do is to sit, staring at the screen and let yourself being filled with the beautiful music.I have so much to say about this movie that I could go on forever. Luckily for you, I won't. Just a little more. Just a little.

James Cameron seems to like putting hundreds of millions into his movie productions. The result is stunning and breathtaking, but will it be a success? I hope that it will be. Maybe not like "Titanic", but at least so successful that it will earn enough money to not be a flop. It would be really sad if it would...

I strongly recommend this movie to everyone with some imagination. If you can't imagine that this could be possible, not even a bit, then you're not the right person to see it. But please, see it because otherwise you'll have no idea of what you're missing.

The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Freddie Highmore stars in two roles in the this movie. 2008. Director: Mark Waters.

The identical twins Simon and Jared Grace (Freddie Highmore, both roles) moves to a lonely house in a forest with their mother (Mary-Louise Parker) and their older sister Mallory (Sarah Bolger). The Grace children doesn't want to live there, but their mother has decided that they must give it a chance.

Jared hates it in the house and he wants to go to his father, who's not living with them any longer. The divorced Mrs. Grace doesn't want Jared to think so loving thoughts of his father. Jared then finds a secret room in the house, where a book by the former owner of the house, Arthur Spiderwick (David Straithairn), is hidden. When Jared opens the book, a new adventure begins.

Freddie Highmore who stars as both Simon and Jared in the movie makes this movie much more worth seeing. He plays the roles with great talent and it's easy to see that he's the best actor in this movie. Even though he's not old, only 14 when shooting, he's a good actor.

A bad thing which makes this movie a bit less touching and all, is that there's way to much visual effects by computers. It feels like nothing is real. You can almost always easily see what's made by computer and what's real. Here, it's like 80% is fake. That makes it less interesting. You could almost call it an animated movie.

This movie is not so especially deep, almost not at all I would say. It's a movie for children who's around 10 years old or so. It's based on the children's books by Holly Black and Tony Di'Terlizzi, so I seriously doubt that it's made for adults who thinks that fantasy like this is too childish.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Entertaining candy-comedy in a factory of fantasy. 2005. Director: Tim Burton.

Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) is a very poor boy living in a ramshackle little house near Willy Wonka's (Johnny Depp) huge factory of candy and chocolate. Charlie's dream is to visit the factory. When Wonka announces a contest to let five people come and visit his factory, Charlie feels that his dream can come true.

Five Golden Tickets are placed inside five chocolate bars, which are then sent to five random stores around the world. Noboy knows where. So, people buy tons of chocolate bars, hoping to get a ticket. Charlie, who has no money but a penny or so, feels that he's never going to win.

This movie is really fun and very entertaining not only for children but adults as well. Tim Burton has done a great work with this story. But it wouldn't have been as good as it is without the splended Johnny Depp who's really amazing in his role as the odd Willy Wonka.

This movie is like no other. It's very special but not so weird that it becomes a bad movie. It's a great movie with humour, music and exotic locations in the 007 studio where it's shot.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

The third and so far the last one of the Mummy movies. 2008. Director: Rob Cohen.

A long time ago in China, the Dragon Emperor (Jet Li) was the leader of the greatest army of all time, and he was very powerful. But he wanted more. He wanted to become imortal. The old but beautiful witch, Zi Yuan (Michelle Yeoh), can help him. But when he kills her love, general Ming (Russell Wong), she curses him and his army to become burned alive and trapped inside shells of terracotta.

Later, in 1946, Alex O'Connell (Luke Ford) and some others locate the tomb of the Dragon Emperor. His parents (Brendan Fraser and Maria Bello) are living a silent, and very boring, life in England. But when they are persuaded to take a magic thing called The Eye of Shangri La to Shanghai, the adventure begins.

This movie is entertaining, but sometimes to stupid to be good. The scenes where Rick and Evy lives in England are really funny, and then there's some moments in Shanghai where you can laugh a bit. But after that, it's not so very funny anymore.

Jackie Chan is really funny, and performs great stunts in his movies. Jet Li do great stunts too, but he's extremely boring. A real killjoy. He's a terrible actor and the without any talents as a comedian or as an actor, his stunts are not very entertaining to watch.

The fact that Luke Ford is just 13 years younger then Brendan Fraser, who's playing his father, is a bit disturbing. They should have chosen another actor to play Alex O'Connell. Luke Ford doesn't feel right. He's not convincing as the caracter.

I feel a bit sad because Rachel Weisz didn't want to return as Evy in this movie. Maria Bello is not near being as good as Weisz. They're not so very alike. Not in the way that they act on screen, or how they look. But it's nice that John Hannah is starring here too, because he's really funny.

The Mummy Returns

The Mummy Returns

The sequel to "The Mummy". 2001. Director: Stephen Sommers.

A long, long time ago, the Scorpion King (Dwayne Johnson) almost died in the desert after a big fight with some enemies. To revenge, he swore an oath the god of the underworld, Anubis. With the help of Anubis, he became very powerful buth when all of his enemies were defeated, Anubis took the soul of the Scorpion King, as he had promised before.

Much later, in 1933, the now married couple Evy (Rachel Weisz) and Rick (Brendan Fraser) are exploring a pyramide with their son, Alex (Freddie Boath). They find the Bracelet of Anubis. Back home in London, Alex puts it on, and then he has only seven days to get to the oasis of the Scorpion King, created by Anubis. But it's all getting much more difficult when the evil Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) is brought back to life, and kidnapping Alex.

This movie is as good as the first one, until the weird scenes with the Scorpion King and all that arrive. It's just too wicked. The visual effects are not good enough for being made in 2001. Just like the third movie in the series, the effects are not of the same quality as the ones in, for an example; King Kong.

But still, this movie is entertaining and if that's what you're looking for, then this is to recommend. But if you're not the type of person who likes unrealistic adventure stories, then don't bother seeing this. I think that entertaining movies can be good, as long as they're not a total mess of bad actors and a stupid plot.

John Hannah is very funny, but's except for him, the humour isn't at it's best here. But this is the kind of movie that you can watch at the theatre and find entertaining and good then, but it's not the type of movie that you recommend if you're going to see a "quality" movie. It's not the smartest movie ever, but it's still entertaining (as I've been repeating over and over again).

Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile

Exiting mystery on a boat on the Nile. 1978. Director: John Guillermin.

Linnet Ridgeway (Lois Chiles) is a very wealthy young woman who takes what she wants and leaves the rest. When her best friend, Jackie (Mia Farrow) introduces her beloved fiancé, Simon Doyle (Simon MacCorkindale), to Linnet, she's not slow in getting married to Simon.

The newlyweds Mr and Mrs Doyle travel to Egypt on their honeymoon, but they are not left alone. Jackie follows them everywhere. The friendship with Linnet is gone forever, and when Linnet is found death in her cabin on board of the boat they're all traveling with, Jackie is the suspect. But is that the truth?

I read the book by the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, before seeing the movie, so I knew who murdered Linnet all along. But when you saw it, it didn't really matter. It was really exiting anyway. Really mysterious and awfully exiting when you wonder who the murderer can be.

It's such a marvelous plot and it's all made so that you have no clue of who it can be. That's what's so good about Agatha Christie's stories. Suspense and always a completely unexpected ending. I read a whole bunch of her books during summer this year and found them very good. Maybe not all of them, but some are real masterpieces.

Things that are a little bit irritating is that in the book, Linnet is blond and Jackie dark-haired. In the movie, Linnet has some kind of darker type of brown hair and Jackie is red-haired. I didn't find so irritating that I couldn't watch the movie, oh no. I'm not that kind of person.

Mia Farrow is really good in her role. I think that she's almost too skinny to not be a copy of a catwalk model, but she's a cute actress and her way of acting is really good so it doesn't matter too much. But both Lois Chiles and Mia Farrow wears some dresses which show so much skin that you wonder if it's so probable to the reality back in the 30's...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Movie filled with all the magic you can wish for. 2005. Director: Mike Newell.

Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) has been dreaming the same nightmare, over and over again. His friends, Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson), are both worried for him. When they all go to the World Cup of Quidditch, the Death Eaters arrive and causes serious problems.

They return to Hogwarts, where the Triwizard Tournament is to be held for students at the age of 17. It's a very dangerous competition, where people has died before. Being only 14, Harry is mysteriously chosen as a fourth champion. The one who got him into it must have wanting Harry to die, or is something even worse happening?

When I saw this at the theatre, there were all of these posters all around and I just couldn't wait to sit down and watch the movie as it started. And when it did, I loved from the first second. So full of magic, so splended and so entertaining.

Harry, Ron and Hermione are getting older and the changing feelings that you have when you're a teenager makes the friends both fighting and showing new feelings to people. Harry gets a mayor crush on the sweet Cho Chang (Katie Leung), but is hurt when she's going out with another champion, Cedric (Robert Pattison).

This movie contains sweet scenes where Harry tries to control his feelings for Cho, scenes where Ron expresses real embarrasment and exiting scenes where Harry has to fight for his life in the dangerous challenges which he must survive.

Hogwarts is moer magical then ever before and you feel as if you were walking around in the great castle, flying on a broom and attending to the entertaining ball where you can see the great hall as never before. This is true magic.