Alvin and the Chipmunks Chipwrecked

This 2011 American adventure comedy film was directed by Mike Mitchell. It is the sequel to Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. It has a lot of the cast from The Squeakquel in this movie as well. Jason Lee is back as David "Dave" Seville. David Crossis still playing the role of Ian Hawke. Jenny Slate plays the weird and unusual Zoe. Andy Buckley plays as Captain Correlli. Justin Long is back  as the voice of Alvin Seville with Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. doing the singing. Matthew Gray Gubler  does the voice of Simon Seville. Steve Vining does the singing for Simon.Jesse McCartney is doing the voice of Theodore Seville. Christina Applegate does the voice of Brittany. Anna Faris is the voice of Jeanette. Amy Poehler does the voice of the sweet Eleanor. Janice Karman does the singing for Theodore, Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor.

During family vacation upon a cruise, the Chipmunks and Chipettes turn the ship into their personal playground causing trouble and running havoc as they usually will. Dave (Jason Lee) notices that his old boss, Ian Hawke (David Cross) working as a safety monitor on the cruise. Alvin decides to go para-sailing on a kite and he flies away with the other chipmunks. Dave then gets on a hang glider to find them with Ian and both end up in the ocean.
Meanwhile, the six chipmunks find an island and they sleep for the night. Dave asks Ian's help find the same island and begin looking for the six chipmunks. The next morning, the chipmunks go and find food and while doing so, an island castaway named Zoe (Jenny Slate) shows up and sees the Chipmunks and Chipettes for the first time. They then go to Zoe's tree house and Simon gets bitten by a spider, the side effects including personality changes and loss of inhibition.
The morning after, everyone observes Simon's personality has changed and he becomes a French, adventurous chipmunk named Simone. Simone asks Jeanette to dance to Alvin's dismay. Later, Zoe takes Simone, Jeanette, Eleanor and Theodore to a waterfall and Simone finds a cave. He returns with a gold bracelet which he gives to Jeanette. Brittany and Alvin see an active volcano the next day and they decide to leave the island. Theodore and Simone find Dave and Ian and they go to meet with the other chipmunks. They all begin to prepare a raft to get them off the island and everyone is assigned a job. When Jeanette and Simone go and look for food, Zoe kidnaps Jeanette and Simone gets knocked unconscious, and reverted to normal.
Everyone finds Simon awake and he cannot remember anything since the bite. They discover that Zoe has taken Jeanette and they head towards the waterfall. When they approached the tree log to cross, Dave and Alvin decide they'll go and find Jeanette. As Zoe forces Jeanette to get the treasure by tying her to a rope, Alvin and Dave come to her rescue. The island begins to rumble again and Zoe let go of the rope and Jeanette runs with Dave and Alvin back to the raft. When they reach the log to cross, Dave almost falls.
Alvin and Ian convince Zoe to help save Dave. They then run towards the raft and escape the eruption. While on the raft, Zoe apologizes to Jeanette for kidnapping her and forcing her to get the treasure. As a gift, Jeanette gives Zoe the gold bracelet that Simon had given to her. Alvin reconciles with Dave and they are rescued. The Chipmunks and Chipettes perform at the International Music Awards.
In the film's epilogue, the Chipmunks, the Chipettes, and Dave are on a plane heading back home. Alvin is speaking on the pilot's microphone that the plane's destination is set for Timbuktu, accidentally pushes the food cart, and it hits Dave.

Taken

The 2008 movie starring Liam Neeson was incredible. I have to say it was a lot better than the critics gave it credit for. Neeson's character in this movie, Bryan has a set a special gifts that he acquired over a interesting career. He is now retired and just wants to spend more time with his daughter, Kim. Kim decides to go to Europe to follow U2's european concert tour. However, upon arriving in Paris, Kim and her friend, Amanda meet Peter. Peter is a handsome stranger who offers to take their picture. He then invites them to go to a party. Kim is reluctant, however Amanda pressures her into saying yes. They agree to the party and Peter learns where the two are staying when he asks them where to pick them up at for the party. However,  he discreetly calls some men and informs them of the girls' whereabouts as soon as they leave.

Bryan calls Kim that evening. While they are talking, she sees several unknown men enter the apartment and abduct Amanda. Bryan then starts recording the call and tells Kim go to the next room and hide under the bed, and to shout out information about the kidnappers when they come for her. Kim is grabbed by one of the men, but she shouts a description out before she is taken away. Afterwards, Bryan realizes that someone has picked up the phone. He informs the listener of his specific set of skills and says if they let Kim go, he will not pursue them, but if they do not, "I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you". The listener then replies "Good luck" and destroys the phone. Bryan then sends Sam the recording for analysis.

Sam later informs Bryan that the kidnappers are members of the Albanian Mafia, who specialize in kidnapping teenagers to sell them into sexual slavery. Bryan and Lenore are told that if Kim is not rescued within 96 hours (or 4 days), she will likely never be found again. Bryan flies to Paris that evening using Stuart's connection with a private jet company. After landing in Paris, Bryan breaks into the apartment. He finds a reflection of Peter in a photograph recorded on the memory card of Kim's cellphone and returns to the airport where he finds Peter charming another potential victim. Attacking and brutally beating Peter, he is attacked by Peter's colleague. Beating the man down while Peter escapes, he then chases Peter who jumps from the overpass only to be killed by a passing truck.

Bryan seeks help from an old friend, Jean-Claude, a bureaucrat and former field agent, now within French intelligence. Jean-Claude tells Bryan where to start looking, but warns him not to make trouble. He meets an Albanian businessman who is a translator and later converses with a hooker only to be intimidated by her boss whom Bryan plants a listening device on the back of his collar. With the translator's help, the trail leads to a makeshift brothel at a construction site. He recognizes Kim's jacket on a girl there and takes her with him, killing several guards including the boss of the hooker he met earlier. Jean-Claude calls for a meeting in an open place and Bryan speaks to him through a radio from the Notre Dame de Paris. Jean Claude's boss is angry about the mess Bryan has made and wants to send him back to the U.S, which Bryan angrily refuses, saying that he will not stop until he finds his daughter.

Back at a hotel, the girl recovers and gives Bryan the address where she met Kim. At the site, he bluffs his way in pretending to be a corrupt police officer looking for a bribe. After a short conversation Bryan identifies Marko Hoxha, the man he spoke to on the phone. He knocks him out and kills all the other criminals. Searching the house, he finds several captives and Amanda, dead of an overdose. Enraged at what he has seen, Bryan then tortures Marko by using a makeshift electric chair in the basement. Although originally spitting in Bryan's face (twice) Marko then desperately tells him that because Kim is a virgin, she was sold to a man named Patrice Saint-Clair, because virgins are very valuable at the black market. Satisfied that Marko has told him all he knows, Bryan switches the power back on and walks out, leaving Marko to die.

Bryan then turns up unexpectedly to dinner with Jean-Claude and his wife, where he discovers that Jean-Claude knows things that he is not telling him. Jean-Claude attempts to shoot Bryan, but Bryan has unloaded Jean-Claude's pistol. Bryan then shoots Jean-Claude's wife in the shoulder, and threatens to kill her if Jean-Claude does not tell him where to find Saint-Clair. Bryan leaves the scene and goes to Saint-Clair's mansion, using Jean-Claude's card as an ID. He disables several guards to get downstairs where he finds a secret slave auction in progress. Kim is the last to be sold. Bryan forces an Arab bidder at gunpoint to buy her, but is immediately caught. When Saint-Clair learns who he is, he orders his men to kill him, but Bryan overcomes his captors and then tortures Saint-Clair into revealing where to find Kim. Saint-Clair pleads "It wasn't personal", but Bryan angrily replies "It was all personal to me" before killing him.

Bryan leaves the mansion, where he spots Kim getting into a car. He follows the car and then jumps onto a yacht where Kim has been taken. He dispatches all the henchmen including the Arab bidder. Badly injured he then enters a bedroom to find the buyer holding Kim at knife point. The man tries to bargain but Bryan shoots him in the head. He then hugs Kim who sobs "You came for me" and Bryan replies "I told you I would."

Back in Los Angeles, Bryan reunites Kim with Lenore and Stuart who make it clear to Bryan that he now has their respect. Later, Bryan surprises Kim by taking her to see Sheerah for a personal singing lesson.

At First Sight movie

I believe Kilmer is amazing in this film. He plays a blind man named Virgil. He then meets Amy who is a New York architect. He comes home from their first meeting and starts describing Amy to his dog as if she was a coffee cake. She falls in love him. He starts to fall for her and chooses to go to New York with her. He elects to have eye surgery to possible be able to see again. The surgery was a success but now he decides to stay in New York to be with Amy much to his sister Jane's upset. Virgil and Amy's relationship starts to have issues. They realize how much they need each other. However, about 5 weeks after the operation he starts to go blind again. Virgil decides the one thing he wants to see is a hockey game. He then leaves New York and goes back home. He gives his sister her life back after thanking her for taking care of him all these years. He moves back to New York on his own. He gets a new seeing eye dog. This movie was based on true events that had happened. It is a heartwarming romantic drama.

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

Breaking Dawn Part 1 is based off Stephanie Meyer's novel entitled Breaking Dawn. They are releasing the final chapter in two parts. This is the first part. The second part and final movie will be released in theates on November 16, 2012.

The film starts out as Bella Swan plans her wedding with the Cullen family. Before the wedding, Edward Cullen tells Bella that he had murdered people in the past However, undaunted by this, Bella and Edward continue to go ahead with the wedding. During the reception following her wedding to Edward, Bella is visited by her good friend, Jacob Black. When Bella admits that she and Edward plan to consummate their marriage during their honeymoon, Jacob becomes angry but is held back by his pack. He then runs off into the woods, and Edward takes a very upset Bella back to the reception.
The couple spends their honeymoon on the Cullens' private Brazilian island called Isle Esme. Although hesitant, Edward has sex with Bella for the very first time. After Edward realizes that he has bruised Bella's arm, back and shoulders during sex and he vows to never be intimate with her again, which brings much  disappointment to her. Howver, he later gives in to her seductions though. However, two weeks into their honeymoon, Bella discovers that she is pregnant with a fetus growing at an extraordinarily accelerated rate. After consulting with Carlisle, they rush back to Forks. Bella refuses to consider having an abortion, and enlists Rosalie's help to protect her wishes.

Opposed to Sam Uley's plans to kill Bella and her child, which is thought to be a demon, Jacob angrily leaves his pack and arrives at the Cullens' to protect Bella. Seth and Leah Clearwater join him shortly after and in doing so form a new wolf pack. As the pregnancy progresses, Bella's health severely  starts to deteriorate. As a last resort, she begins drinking blood, which satisfies the fetus' vampiric thirst and allows her to be able to regain some strength. Soon afterward, Bella goes into a painful labor and gives birth to her daughter, Renesmee, who is named after her mother, Renée, and Edward's, Esme. In order to save her life, Edward injects Bella's heart with his venom to transform her into a vampire, but however nothing happens, and Bella is thought to be dead. Greatly distraught, Jacob attempts to kill the newbon baby, but is stopped when he realizes he has just imprinted on the child, and therefore becomes her protector.

When the werewolves learn of Bella's "death", they attack the Cullens' house in an attempt to kill the baby. They are forced to stop after learning Jacob has imprinted on Renesmee, which, under their wolf law, means Renesmee cannot be harmed. After Bella is thought to be deceased her wounds suddenly heal and she remembers her entire life as the venom reaches her heart. The Cullens all look at each other in shock. Bella's heart finally ceases, and she awakens with red eyes, a newborn vampire.

In a post-credits scene, the Volturi hear about Bella's conversion. Aro notes that it does not end their dispute with the Cullens though, proclaiming, "They have something I want".

Therefore, part 2 should prove to be an amazing movie. I have extremely high hopes for the second installments.

Twilight Saga Eclipse

Eclipse is a 2010 American romantic fantasy film based on Stephenie Meyer's 2007 novel, Eclipse. It is the third installment of The Twilight Saga film series, following the first movie Twilight in 2008  and the second movie New Moon back in 2009.

Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) attacks and bites Riley Biers (Xavier Samuel), in order to begin creating an army of newborns set to destroy Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart). Back in Forks, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Bella discuss the complications of becoming an immortal vampire. At 18 years old, one year older than the age Edward was when he became a vampire, Bella expresses her aversion to the idea of marrying so young, though Edward refuses to turn her until they are married and she has had various human experiences that she would otherwise miss out on. While Charlie Swan (Billy Burke) investigates the disappearance of Riley Biers, Edward suspects his disappearance was caused by the newborn vampires. Furthering his suspicions is the intrusion of Riley into Bella's room.
Although Edward fears for her safety, Bella insists that Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) and the rest of the werewolf pack would never harm her, but Edward is still not convinced. Bella goes to La Push to see Jacob, and returns home unharmed. During one of her visits, Jacob confesses that he is in love with Bella, and forcefully kisses her. Furious, she punches him and breaks her hand, and Edward later threatens Jacob and tells him to only kiss her if she asks him to. Bella even revokes the invitations of Jacob and his pack members to her graduation party, but when Jacob apologizes for his behavior, she forgives him.

Meanwhile, Alice (Ashley Greene) sees a vision that the newborn army is attacking Forks led by Riley Biers. Jacob, accompanied by Quil (Tyson Houseman) and Embry (Kiowa Gordon) overhear this, which leads to an alliance between the Cullens and Wolf pack. Later, the Cullens and the wolves agree to a meeting place and time to train and discuss strategy. During the training Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) explains to Bella that he was created by a vampire named Maria to control a newborn army. He hated his original existence and upon meeting Alice, joined the Cullens with her. Bella sees the true bond between a mated vampire pair and begins to understand Jasper better. Despite her reluctance to marry, Bella realizes that spending eternity with Edward is more important to her than anything else and agrees to marry him. Edward and Bella camp up in the mountains to hide Bella from the bloodthirsty newborns. During the night, Bella overhears a conversation between Edward and Jacob, in which they temporarily put aside their hatred towards each other. In the morning, Jacob overhears Edward and Bella discussing their engagement and becomes very upset. Before he can run off to get himself killed in the fight with the newborns, Bella desperately asks him to kiss her, and she realizes that she has fallen in love with him. Edward finds out about the kiss but is not angry, as Bella says she loves him more than Jacob.

Victoria eventually finds Bella's hiding spot, and Edward kills her while Seth kills Riley. The Cullens and the Quileute wolves, meanwhile, destroy her "army", though Jacob is injured saving Leah Clearwater from a newborn. Several members of the Volturi arrive to deal with the newborn army. They also see that the Cullens are guarding the newborn, Bree Tanner (Jodelle Ferland), who had refused to fight and surrendered to Carlisle. Jane (Dakota Fanning) tortures Bree to get information, then instructs Felix to kill her, despite the Cullens' efforts to spare her. When Jane notes that Caius will find it interesting that Bella is still human, Bella informs her that the date for her transformation has been set. Bella visits the injured Jacob to tell him that even though she is in love with him, she has chosen to be with Edward. Saddened by her choice, Jacob reluctantly agrees to stop trying to come between her and Edward.

Bella and Edward go to their meadow, where she tells him she has decided to do things his way: get married, make love, and then be transformed into a vampire. She also explains that she never has been normal and never will be. She goes on to explain that she's felt out of place her entire life, but when she is in Edward's world she feels stronger and complete. At the end of the story they decide they need to tell Charlie about their engagement.

Avengers movie

This was an awesome movie. It has a little bit of everything for everyone. It has a strong relationship undertone between Black Widow and Hawkeye. There is a lot of action. And there is even some comedy. The Avengers in this movie are made up of Thor, Hawkeye, Ironman, Captain America, Black Widow, and The Hulk. Loki is the villian for this movie. I loved the huge fight scene near the end of the movie. In my opinion it was the best fight scene in the whole movie. Although they were all good fight scenes. my first midnight showing of a movie. I just enjoyed watcing the bad guys come riding in to New York through the open portal on their flying cycles and ugly armored creatures. So to save the world the heros have to bust up some of New York and the bad guys do the rest. I strongly recommend watching in 3d if it is possible for where you live. The graphics were incredible. There were parts that looked like they were coming right at you. It definitely made you start to feel like you were part of the film. I also say that whatever you do just do not underestimate the Black Widow. She was amazing in this movie. The fight scene between Thor and Ironman in the beginning before Ironman finds out who he was was epic. It was only thanks to Captain America that the fight got broke up. Then later in the movie there is a scene where after fighting a bunch of bad guys Hulk just punches the hell out of Thor and it sends Thor flying. This movie does have a little bit of minor language but other than tht it was wonderful. There is a clip at the end of the credits. This clip includes Thanos. It is definitely left to where there could be a sequel. Which there is already talk about being in the works. Not sure how much truth is in that last statement yet though.

Twilight New Moon

This is the sequel to Twilight and is also based on Stephenie Meyer's novel New Moon. This 130 minute movie finds Bella safe in bed having a dreamon what is her 18th birthday. In this dream Bella sees herself as an old lady. Bella expressed her unhappiness at growing older than her boyfriend, Edward. Who stop physically aging at 17. Alice throws Bella a birthday party at the house amongst the family. However, during the party while trying to unwrap Carlisle and Esme's gift Bella gets a paper cut. Jasper becomes so overwhelmed with the scent of her blood that he tries to kill her. Edward realizes the danger that he and his family could pose to Bella and as a result he completely ends the relationship. Edward and the rest of his family then move from Forks.
Bella becomes heartbroken and very depressed after Edward's breakup and departure. Charlie decides to send Bella to Jacksonville, FL to her mom. However, Bella refuses to go and agrees to start spending more time with her friends. After going to a zombie movie with Jessica, Bella sees a group of bikers. This reminds her of when Edward previously rescued her from an assault, and she sees his image warning her to stay away that it was dangerous. Bella discovers that all thrill-seeking activities evoke images of Edward's preserved image. She is also comforted by a deepening friendship with Jacob Black. Jacob helps to ease her pain over losing Edward. When Jacob suddenly begins avoiding her, Bella gets worse again. She then discovers he has become a werewolf, which is an age-old enemy to vampires. Jacob's pack members are on a constant patrol for Victoria, a vampire who wants to kill Bella just to avenge the death of her mate, James, by Edward's hand which leaves Jacob with very little time to spend with her. Bella returns to seeking thrill-inducing activities as a way to ease the pain

Through miscommunication, Edward believes that Bella has killed herself by jumping off a cliff into the ocean. Distraught over her supposed suicide, Edward then decides to travel to Italy to provoke the Volturi which is a powerful vampire coven that is fully capable of killing him. However, the Volturi decide he is too valuable as a vampire. However they will kill him only if he exposes himself  to humans as a vampire. Alice, Edward's sister, and Bella rush to Italy in hopes of saving Edward, and arrive just in the nic of time to stop him. It is then that Edward tells Bella that he has always loved her and only left to be able to protect her. However, the Volturi determine that Bella, a human who knows that vampires exist, must either be killed or transformed into a vampire herself. However, Alice stops the Volturi from trying to kill Bella by sharing her premonition with Aro, a Volturi elder who is able to read thoughts through a single touch, in which Bella has been transformed. Soon afterwards, they return back to Forks and Bella forgives Edward for leaving her. The Cullens vote in favor of Bella being transformed into a vampire, much to Edward and Rosalie's dismay. Later on, Jacob reminds Edward of the treaty that the Cullens made with the Quileute tribe: they will not attack each other, as long as the Cullens do not bite any humans. Which is an action necessary for Bella's transformation. This upsets Bella causing her to tell Jacob that he had no right to interfer and that it is her choice. The movie concludes with Edward telling Bella that he will change her into a vampire, but only if she marries him first.


I must say that I enjoy the chemistry that happens on screen between Isabella "Bella" Swan and Jacob Black. Showing Bella a glimpse of how things could be if Edward was not around. She also admits to Jacob that she loves him near the end of this movie.

Baby Avery

I do not know about you but I have been following the story about Baby Avery. She is a beautiful little girl who was diagnosed with an incurable genetic disease and  then as if that was not bad enough her parents were then  that she would not only lose her your ability to be able to walk and move her arms, but that she would die between now and the next 18 months. Most parents would admit defeat and start preparing for the worst. However, I like that Avery's parent's decided to make the most of every second they had with her. They started a bucketlist blog  called Avery's Bucket List. This wonderful, cheerful happy and beautiful little girl never let her disease get the better of her. I found it wonderful that this little bundle of joy was able to experience so much life in the short 5 and a half months she was here with us. She got to do a lot more then some people every get to.
However, I would love to see the last goal Avery which was to help raise the remaining $365,000 (out of $1 million) that is needed to bring Dr. Kaspar's SMA Gene Therapy program out of the lab and into her SMA friends.  Dr. Kaspar's SMA Gene Therapy could help cure Avery's friends or at the very least offer some  advancements towards a cure for them that they did not have before. There is a link to be able to help donate to this cause at Avery's blog. The link is http://averycan.blogspot.com/.
May this sweet child, Avery Lynn Canahuati, rest in peace in heaven. I also want to extend my deepest condolences to the Canahuati Family and all of this little girls friends as well.



Photo of Baby Avery and information courtesy of Avery's Bucket List found at http://averycan.blogspot.com/

Childrens foods

I got a very interesting email the day before yesterday. It was over the best and worst foods to feed your infant. I food some of the items on both lists to be very interesting I will definitely pass this information along soon as I finish reading it.