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Three of the movies are released worldwide so I'm going to do a quick review of them all.



Astro Boy :

This Astro Boy film (which pretty much tells the origin of the Astro Boy himself) story is different from the original story. People who doesn't know the origin of the astroboy might get a really good jump start, but for those who knew the origin already, they might find the story is rather annoying because... well, some things aren't as it supposed to be like in the original version. However, it's still entertaining, good humors, but they couldn't build any tension in the fights.

Characters, well the main characters are explained quite deep, Astroboy, Dr. Tenma, the President, and Cora. Only the main characters unfortunately, the other characters are just like cameos to me.

The animation is just right, at least it's a relief after seeing the crappy-uninspiring-boring-confusing-and-ultimately-redundant Meraih Mimpi.

Few thing which disturbs me. This film's target market is said to be everyone, no matter how old you are. But the story contains a political conspiracy as President Stone tries to win the election through scientific military development and I'm not sure that this is the content which children are ready to accept yet. And the Dr. Tenma's emotional conflict in which he cannot accept Astro Boy as his "new" Toby is also pretty hard for children to understand.

The other thing is Toby/AstroBoy's voice actor, which I think is "half-dead" and cannot scream naturally, oh perhaps Freddie is too young to do that? =_=

Conlusion - A good movie, it's still entertaining, although not memorable. Recommended for people who doesn't know who Astro Boy is.



This Is It :

Well what else to say? this is just a documentary film which records the preparation of what was going to be MJ's final concert.

Conclusion - I'll just say that "If you're not a fan of Michael Jackson, or not a fan of MJ's songs, or if you don't want to watch a movie which doesn't tell anything but serving only musics and spectacular preparations. There's no reason to watch this movie"



2012 :

Now this one... ahem... first before I review this, I'd always love to say this first

"Engine.. Start!!"

Okay, so... the end of mankind eh? What else can you think from the word "the end of mankind"? Massive destruction, disaster everywhere, people dying, and? End? NO!

This one is rather exciting to watch, besides of the spectacular visual effects it serves, the movie gets a thrilling tension and some really funny and brilliant "that's-not-a-joke" jokes XD. Dramas are a little bit lame imo, although there are a little bit of twists... and kisses XD. So basically Roland got much to tell in the end of the humanity, although the ending is a little bit "out".

There are some things in the movie which is... impossible to happen. The arc itself, which are made to save humanity from destruction. It looks like they already knew that they are going to be hit by a supermassive tsunami so they prepare those things XD. At the LA massive earthquake event, the ground cracks but none of them cracks over the Limousine. Also at the Yellowstone, when Jackson fell into a crack along with a caravan, he survives by hanging on the edge and the edge didn't even crack at all, and at the time when the small plane used to flee from the Yellowstone Volcano eruption is engulfed by the pyroclastic cloud, the plane didn't melt at all @_@ ZOMG pyroclastic cloud could reach 1000 degrees of Celcius. And the volcanic bomb, none of those hits the plane, oh miracles .

What caused the earth comes to an end, I think it's also just scientifically impossible to happen.

The Characters are explained preety deep, and all of the characters are imo "unique". Writer, Pilot, Co-Pilot, Ex-Boxer, Scientist, Military Personel, Monk, Captain, President, Prime Minister, Radio Broadcaster, even Dog and Chicken XD

The visual effect is stunning, there's only one disturbing scene as the Yellowstone is about to erupt, there are about 2-3 scenes which you can tell "whoa wait, I can see the trick" XD

There's no problem with the sound. No memorable soundtrack. But I think they have successfully made a new catchphrase. I won't ruin this one, and I'll let you figure out which one is it.

Conclusion - No matter who you are, if you are human, you should watch this!

End of IMHO, see ya next time

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And as for the Deviation Journal, I'm extra busy with all the college tasks, my gallery grows slowly XD. Anyway I'm currently working for the Wacom contest, theme : Dream - wish me luck, thanks