Letting The Inner Toy-Car Bashing Kid in Me Out.

Cars 2.

Not A Review

VROOM VROOM!

KACHAU!

CARS IS BACK!

WHEEEE!







I LOVE Cars.

I don't care what anyone else says.

Cars is awesome.

I have great memories of playing with my toy cars,

Crashing them around,

Taking them on adventures,

Doing stunts,

etc etc etc.

That's probably why I love Cars so much.







This one is completely different from the first one.

The first one was slower,

And was about slowing down and smelling the exhaust.

This one is a SPY movie!

It's got lots of action! Stunts!

And it's got Finn McMissile!

WHEE!!!







Mater is still annoying though,

But he's the kind of annoying I can stand.

Because he's just so innocent and child-like,

Heeheehee.

McQueen isn't that great here,

Mater is the main star.







Finn McMissile is awesome!

He's like James Bond...

If Q had combined James Bond with his car!

All those awesome gadgets!

And it's Michael Caine!

He sounds so 'sophisticated British spy' that it hurts!







Problem is, this is a Pixar movie.

If any other studio had made it other than Pixar,

Then the critics would have loved it.

But Pixar has set the bar so high,

It's not enough to be a GOOD Pixar movie anymore,

You need to be GREAT.

Sigh.







Oh well,

I LIKED IT.

It's very different from the first movie.

In fact, if I were a kid, I'd love this movie more.

The adult in me likes the simple and sweet first one,

The toy car bashing kid in me likes this one more.

Wax on! Wax off! It's The Moment of Truth! YEAH!

The Karate Kid.
Not a Review.
Wow it's ALMOST THE SAME AS THE FIRST ONE!
Just replace Ralph Macchio with Jaden Smith,
Mr. Miyagi with Jackie Chan,
Karate with kungfu (Why's it still called 'Karate Kid' eh?)
And set the whole damn thing in China.



I LOVED the first movie.
Used to watch it over and over on VCR.
Even read the novelization of it hundreds of times.
And practiced the crane stance all the time.
Still small mar that time.
Wax on, wax off!
(I HATED the sequels though...)



That's probably why I sorta liked this one.
Almost every scene was almost like the first movie.
NOSTALGIA MAX!
There's the annoying mum,
The kungfu fighting bullies,
The evil kungfu teacher,
And the maintenance guy who knows kungfu.



Jackie Chan wasn't bad actually.
More serious than usual, better acting too,
I actually quite liked him here.
Not trying to be funny like all his other Hollywood movies.
He ain't Mr. Miyagi, but he's still pretty good.
Jaden Smith also not bad (A bit annoying though)
But that kid can fight!



The story, the characters, even the dialogue...
Almost all were from the first movie.
Even the burning hands healing trick,
The final fight, the girl from rich family,
And holy shit, there's the Crane Stance!
(Ok, the training techniques were a bit different)
(But it still followed the spirit of the first movie!)



You know what really spoilt it for me though?
(Besides the fact that it's a BIG Visit China ad)
(And that the China they showed was nothing like the one I visited)
It was that fuckin' Justin Bieber song at the end.
WTF damn annoying.
I know lar the fella damn popular now,
Especially amongst the kids.
But nothing beats that old school song from the original.
IT'S THE MOMENT OF TRUTH! YOU'RE GIVING IT ALL!
SURVIVOR FTW!

Enid Great To Have These Books?

Quick, how many of these books have you read or used to own?



Ah, Enid Blyton. So many memories of faraway lands on top of trees, slippery slips, Saucepan men, moonfaces, chairs with wings on their legs, secret and famous kid detectives, find-outers, naughty girls, unpolitically-correct toys, and talking rabbits and other assorted animals with Brer in their name.

I used to have so many of them. Now, this is all I have. Sigh....