Did It Suck Review: 3.5 Stars     Time: 1hr 36min‎‎     Rated: G‎‎

Misguided brain power is a terrible thing to waist

Megamind is a 2010 animated superhero comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and Red Hour Productions, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was released in Digital 3D, and 2D on November 5, 2010. It features the voices of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey,Jonah Hill, David Cross and Brad Pitt. The film is directed by Tom McGrath.

Plot: Megamind (Will Ferrell) is a super-intelligent alien who—at the age of eight days old—is sent to Earth by his parents as his home planet is destroyed by a black hole. However, he lands in The Prison for the Criminally Gifted, thanks to another infant alien similarly sent from a different planet who eventually becomes a superhero known as Metro Man (Brad Pitt), defender of the fictional Metro City.

Did It Suck? A generally good paced film with some expected slow parts that children under 9 may lose interest.  There is a lot of fast comedic dialog that will go right over the heads of kids but will cause some good chuckles from the adult viewers.  The cast was well chosen and thought through as they are reflected nicely through the characters.  Although the 3D was good, and filmed for it,  I wouldn’t spend the extra cash unless you have/want to.  Over all the movie was quite good and well Worth A Ticket.  However, though the movie is worth seeing on the Big Screen, it really could have been done much better.  The Incredibles is still number one in my book.

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- Dan Kersey

Did It Suck Review: 4 Stars     Time: 1hr 30min‎‎     Rated: G

Legends take flight in this Good Vs Evil bird tail.

Plot: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole is a 2010 computer-animated fantasy film loosely based on the first three books (The Capture, The Journey, and The Rescue) of the seriesGuardians of Ga’Hoole by Kathryn Lasky. Zack Snyder directed the film, with Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Ryan Kwanten, Emily Barclay, Anthony LaPaglia, and David Wenham voicing the characters.

Did It Suck? This is one movie I will be adding to my collection.  A beautifully animated film with well directed cinematography.  Some of the best animation comes from the camera angles during the flight scenes and slow motion effects.  The Story moves along at a reasonable pace although some kids under 7 might get bored through some scenes.  I really would have liked the film to have gone more in depth with the story, but, at 1.5 hrs they did a good job.  The 3D version of the film is quite good and worth paying a little more for it, however, if your on a family outing you might want to settle for the regular Big Screen version.  Worth a Ticket.

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- Dan Kersey

Did It Suck Review: 4.5     Time: 1 hr. 28 min     Rated: PG

Don’t let this bad mood self employed evil genius fool you.  He is easily distracted by children.

Despicable Me is a 2010 American computer-animated 3-D comedy film from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment. The film stars Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, and Miranda Cosgrove. It is the first CGI feature produced by Universal, in association with its Illumination Entertainment division. It was entirely animated in the French studio Mac Guff in Paris, France.

Plot: This is a story is of a supervillain named Gru who plans to use three orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, only to find that their innocent love is profoundly changing him.
Did It Suck? I really enjoyed this movie once it got going.  The little yellow dudes added the goofy humor that kids love which also makes the movie more enjoyable for them.  The film has some funny unexpected scenes, which I personally like to see in a comedy, and the movie has a good balanced pace to it.  There is a few weak areas in the story and the 3D was average so I would recommend seeing it in 2D and save your money.  Overall this is a really good film, however, i’m leaning slightly to Wait For The DVD.  There is nothing the Big Screen adds to this movie that you would miss watching on a laptop.

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- Dan Kersey

Review:  1 Star     Reated:     PG

Plot: The Last Airbender is an American adventure fantasy film.  The film stars Noah Ringer as Aang and also stars Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, and Dev Patel.  One hundred years ago, a twelve-year-old Airbender named Aang learns he is the new Avatar, the last of his kind.  He is the only person in his generation capable of controlling and manipulating all four elements to his will and the one tasked with maintaining peace between the four nations of the world who are at war.  His task is to bring peace back to the world.

Did It Suck? I was hoping that this movie was not going to be as bad as all the critics were making it out to be; they were right. This movie sucked on all levels of the suck scale. There were very few parts I liked in this film, at the moment I can’t think of any.  Most of the movie was action-less with very bad dialog, making you think, did the director even watch the scenes after each take?  Kids 12 and under may find this movie entertaining, but for the rest of us it is a very disappointing movie that had incredible potential. Don’t Bother with this one.

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- Dan Kersey

Review:     3 Stars     Rated:     G

It’s a deal of a life time for Shrek and he’s going to take a trip back to when an Ogre can be an Ogre. Shrek Forever After casting voices include:  Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and Antonio Banderas

Plot: After challenging an evil dragon, rescuing a beautiful princess and saving your in—laws’ kingdom, what’s an ogre to do? Well, if you’re Shrek, you suddenly wind up a domesticated family man…  (more here)

Did It Suck? Not my favorite Shrek by far.  Shrek 4 does have some good laughs as to be expected, however, being the last movie in the series I was hoping for a better send-off.  This is a good family movie and most Shrek fans will want to see this film.  This movie in 3D is nothing special and ads nothing more than the price of the ticket.  Wait For The DVD.

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- Dan Kersey

Review:     3.5 Stars     Rated:     PG

Based on best selling novelist Nicholas Sparks’ A Walk to Remember, The Notebook,  and now the latest novel The Last Song is brought to the big screen and directed by Julie Anne Robinson

Plot: Set in a small Southern beach town where an estranged father (Greg Kinnear) gets a chance to spend the summer with his reluctant teenaged daughter (Miley Cyrus), who’d rather be home in New York.   Her dad tries to reconnect with her through the only thing they have in common, music.

Final verdict .. Although most of the critics are rating this film very low It’s still worth a girls night out, however, if you’re on your own it’s better watched at home!  Mostly Worth a Ticket.

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- Meaghan Calnan

Review:     4 Stars     Rated:     PG

She’s back, and bigger than ever!  Or is she small, after all?  Tim Burton returns to the big screen with Alice in Wonderland, telling the story of Alice’s (Mia Wasikowska) return to Wonderland many years after her first adventure.  Although mostly CGI a bevy of famous actors play parts, including two of Burton’s favourites in Johnny Depp (Mad Hatter) and Helena Bonham Carter (Red Queen), with those two stealing the show as always.

Plot: Alice is now grown up but keeps having strange dreams of blue caterpillars and other strange creatures.  While at a party she follows a rabbit, wearing a waistcoat, and falls down a rabbit hole!  Those familiar with the original story will know what is coming for the next few minutes, but then the new adventures begin as Alice is whisked from place to place, meeting all the colourful characters again but without any memory of them, before finally reaching her destiny as the saviour of them all.

Did It Suck? The start of the movie was a little slow, but, the scene did have to be set for what was to come, but it still did not feel to me that the movie really started until Alice fell down the rabbit hole.  From then on the story flowed fluidly and quickly, with humour, both dark and light, mixing well throughout.  As with most of Burton’s movies almost all the imagery throughout was a little surreal, but as always it worked.  Once Alice went down the rabbit hole it is just hard to find fault with this movie!

I saw it in 3D but there were few scenes where the 3D stood out (pun intended) and I think it would be just as good in 2D.  This movie is definitely Worth a Ticket to be sure you get the full effect.

-Andy Hughes

Review:    2 Stars     Rated:     PG

The peoples Tooth Fairy flies into theaters fully loaded with manly wings and leotards.

Plot: Derek Thompson (Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock) is a Hockey player enforcer thats lost touch with his dreams and expresses his ill-faith bluntly to people that have their own.
Fairy land has declared that Mr. Thompson is a menace to hopes and dreams and is sentenced to two weeks Tooth Fairy duty.

As much as this film Sucked overall,  I found myself laughing more times then I expected to.  Kids 10 and under will probably enjoy this silly film more then anyone and it should do quite well when the DVD comes out.  Wait for the DVD and spend it with the kids cuddled up on the couch.

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- Dan Kersey

Review:     2.5 Stars     Rated:     PG

A cute family movie staring Jackie Chan and Amber Valletta, (who recently starred in Gamer).

Bob Ho (Chan) plays an international spy ready for retirement and settle down with his new found love, Gillian (Valletta).  Everything is going as planed for Bob until a new mission is assigned to him and its his most challenging one yet, looking after Gillian’s kids.

Jackie Chan is one of my favorite action stars and is always fun to watch.  This movie is really geared towards kids and more-so to the 13 and under crowed.  However, in saying that, I still had fun watching Jackie Chan’s Martial arts moves in this low budget bad acting film.  Wait for the DVD, kids will love it.

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- Dan Kersey

Review:     2.5 Stars

Not the best 3D movie I’ve seen and it really didn’t live up to a Disney film standard.  Jim Carrey stared as the main character in this animated version of  A Christmas Carol.

This film is targeted towards kids more than adults and the 3D was downplayed as it could have been much better.  The best parts of this film were already depicted in the previews  giving the illusion of a much better film.    Aside from the 3D,  what attracted me to this movie was the fact that Jim was staring;  however,  I feel that he didn’t live up to my personal expectations of  a funny Carrey movie.   It seemed as though his personality was held back by either the director, or maybe it was just a lack of effort on his part.

Final thoughts:  Half the attraction to this movie was that fact it was in 3D;  failing at even that aspect, I wouldn’t consider renting this one.  However, kids will undoubtedly enjoy watching this movie

-Dean D