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Alvin and The Chipmunks, a review by Tom

Title: Alvin and The Chipmunks
Year: 2007
Director: Tim Hill
Rating: U
Length: 91 Min.
Video: Widescreen 1.85
Audio: English: DTS HD Master Audio, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: DTS 5.1, Dutch: Dolby Digital 5.1, Norwegian: Dolby Digital 5.1, Swedish: Dolby Digital 5.1, Danish: Dolby Digital 5.1, Finnish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Norwegian, Swedish

Stars:
Jason Lee
David Cross
Cameron Richardson
Jane Lynch
Justin Long

Plot:
ALVIN AND THE CHIMPMUNKS is a hilarious adventure packed with toe-tapping tunes and fur-flying fun! When struggling songwrither (Jason Lee) opens his home to a talented trio of chipmunks named Alvin, Simon and Theodore, they become overnight music sensations. But a greedy record producer (David Gross) intends to exploit the "boys" and send them on grueling concert tour just to line his own pockets. Now Dave must use a little human ingenuity - and a lot of 'munk mischief' - to get his family back before it's too late!

Extras:
Featurettes
Scene Access

I like this movie. I especially enjoyed the first hour (the last half hour was not as good). These three guys just bring a smile to my face. I think this was a good transfer to the big screen and into a live-action movie (far better than what the Garfield movie turned out to be). I can recommend this one as a fun family movie.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on May 5th, 2009)

Ready Player One, a review by Tom

Ready Player One (2018/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Germany) Director: Steven Spielberg Writing: Zak Penn (Screenwriter), Ernest Cline (Screenwriter), Ernest Cline (Original Material By) Length: 140 min. Video: Widescreen 2.40 Audio: English: Dolby Atmos 3D, English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, German: Dolby Atmos 3D, German: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Subtitles: English, German

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Stars:
Tye Sheridan as Parzival / Wade
Olivia Cooke as Art3mis / Samantha
Ben Mendelsohn as Sorrento
Lena Waithe as Aech / Helen
T.J. Miller as I-ROk

Plot:Awards:
Nominated:

Academy Award (2018)

Best Visual Effects (Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew Butler, David Shirk)

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Featurettes
• Digital Copy
• Wendecover

I haven't read the book. But I enjoyed this movie. I know the movie is not that critically acclaimed, but I really like it. I have seen it in the past on streaming services. And I decided to add it to my collection recently and still enjoyed this movie the second time around. But that may be mostly because of the 80s nostalgia in this movie.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on March 20th, 2023)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon, a review by Achim

13. Earthlings  Welcome Here
At a conference on UFOs, Sarah gets a clue that puts her on the trail of the three dots.  Riley has second thoughts about her mission.

My comments:
Wow, that was awkward. While most of the plot didn't really interest me that much (mainly that part with the UFOs...) it was still all put together very well. Then there is the two other story threads which are also very interesting and the story comes out on top in the end.

I mean, come on, Sarah follows a lead where she found three UFOs on the cover of a flyer, looking similar to her dots? In general I don't mind the idea that stands behind that (people found "future technology" and since they can't know that they assume it's alien), just they way it's introduced into the show didn't meet my approval (). Once that was over with there was one more obvious plot twist to deal with but the rest was fine.

Much more interesting to me was how they introduced Riley's back story (including "her" agenda) with a bang. No more hiding, no more guesses or hints. Kaboom, here is what it is, deal with it. That was intercut with interactions between John, Riley and Cameron which re-introduced the theme of jealousy.

Finally there is Ellison who, after initial hesitation, agrees to teach morals and ethics to John Henry. Well, technically we never see him agree, but we see him play chess with the artificial intelligence and discuss related topics.


(only because the, IMO misguided, use of the UFO theme)

(From Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon on February 14th, 2010)