The Boy With The Cuck-koo Clock Heart - Movie Review

SPOILERS

In the beginning I could not wrap my mind around this rather unique film.  Things just spiral off in weird dreamlike tangents.  However, as you continue watching the story unfolds and you can't not fall in love with it.  That is until Jack throws his key over the side of a cliff.  The key that keeps his heart working! Just so he could kiss a girl.  Which while a sweet gesture, was horrifying.  Perhaps I should explain the storyline first.  Jack has a clockwork heart obviously.  One that can be easily overloaded if he feels emotions too strongly.  He falls in love with a girl.  Which is totally predictable outcome but hey.  I won't give everything away so you'll have to watch the movie for the rest.

Still, it ends at the cliff scene so be warned.  Normally, I would write off a story like this but the animators did a great job, the music was lovely, and the characters have really large vocabularies that they use to word thing in the most beautiful ways.

Frozen - Movie Review

Frozen is a pretty good movie with brilliant animation and some really genius ideas with the ice that looked beautiful.  Jack Frost should learn a few of those tricks.   Erroneously, I though that this wasn't a musical, so you can imagine my shock once people started breaking out in song.  Even then, the first two (three if you count the intro music) songs I actually liked.  Everything after that was grating.  Still, the humor managed to offset the damage done more often than not so, this still makes my top ten favorite animations list.

Side notes/minor spoilers:  I had hoped Elsa would get together with Kristoff and I still can't imagine why that didn't happen.  Oh well.  I also strongly dislike how wolves were portrayed in this film.  Wolves do not go around attacking people.  They just don't, nor do they need any more bad publicity while they're an endangered species.

Video Shorts

This little movie is too cute, though I wonder why they decided to not draw in the tail after the first scene...

I will never look at a Scarecrow the same way again...

This was just funny, I don't know why it doesn't have as many views as the two previous shorts, because the animation and colors are well done...

Imagine

Movies now a days have really downgraded,  sure they are more action packed and have great animation but they have no substance.  There is nothing new.  It's always the same old thing, vampires, werewolves, superheros, aliens, etc.  Don't get me wrong, those are my favorite type of movies but I would like something new every once in a while.  Something  imaginative.  Take The Nightmare Before Christmas for example.  Even years after it was made there is not another movie quite like it.

On a side note, all my manga updated at the same time.  ^.^  I love the rush of excitement I get when I am about to read a new chapter.  There were so many!

My two favorite manga at the moment are Samurai Ragazzi and Shuumatsu no Laughter.  Both of these manga only have two chapters out so far.  So there is no need to worry that you have fallen too far behind if you want to start reading them.  I enjoy the lightness of Samurai R. it is as if nothing can get Harunobu down.  It's a tale of pure adventure.  On the other hand Shuumatsu no Laughter is about demons.  Each of these stories are fun to read.  You can really get into the mindset of the main characters even though so much mystery surrounding them.