Movie: Wall-E

Studios:	Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Feature Animation
Release:	June 27, 2008
Genre:	Animation, Comedy
MPAA Rating:	G
Websites:	http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/walle/ http://www.disney.co.uk/DisneyMovies/Walle/

My Yahoo! Movies Rating:

Overall Grade:	B+
Story:	B
Acting	B
Direction:	B+
Visuals:	A

A true family movie

Take an Asimov-inspired tale of a robot left alone on a devastated earth, add the graphic capabilities, humor and story-telling genius of Pixar, and you've got a heartwarming tale narrated mostly by cute beeps and one-word phrases.

Anyone who could remember the 80s could not help but think that Wall-E's look and even his inquisitive personality is reminiscent of Johnny-5, the robot from the movie "Short Circuit" (1986).

Relying mostly on visual cues and changing the tone of voice, most of the dialogue here consists of repetitive one-word phrases. One is impressed how one word, like "Wall-E", could mean many things depending on how it is said.

The Asimov fan in me loves how the movie touches on the issue of man's destructive tendencies, and the irony that cleaning up and/or rebuilding the planet is the legacy that man will leave to his creation - sentient robots.

This is one movie that kids will truly enjoy without having to wonder why the adults are laughing at phrases that they could not relate to, and parents won't have to worry about having to explain to their tots some not-so-innocent innuendos inserted into the dialogue. And yes, adults can still enjoy the movie despite the lack of reference to the 70s, 80s and early 90s, or green humor in the dialogue.

Movie: Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Production Co.:	Lucasfilm Animation, Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Distributor:	Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Release:	August 15, 2008
Genre:	Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Animation
MPAA Rating:	PG for sci-fi action violence throughout, brief language and momentary smoking.

My Yahoo! Movies Rating:

Overall Grade:	C
Story:	C
Acting	C
Direction:	C
Visuals:	B

Only a Star Wars Fan would sit through this

I love the Star Wars franchise and have bought books and watched movies even when some of them fall on the crappy side - like this one.

The opening sequence sounded like a Hasbro toy advertisement that it took me a couple of seconds to realize the movie had already started.

The graphics and story weren't that memorable at all. I bet the animators could tell you there's some technological advances in this movie, but I watched this movie in a moviehouse to be awed by graphics on widescreen - which didn't happen. It felt like watching a TV cartoon. A 2d full feature cartoon by Disney is by all means better than this one in terms of story and character development.

Heroes Season 3... the Villains are coming

Welcome to Level 5... where evil resides.

Just so no one forgets, the 3rd season of NBC's Heroes will start in September in the U.S., and the producers are building up the hype. On the TV show's site are the previews/trailers and the webisodes (that no one in the Philippines could watch, by the way), the cast have been in ComicCon 2008, and anyone who's in Hana/Samantha's list started getting e-mail messages last August 5.

The first e-mail I got shows a link back to the Primatech website's Assignment Tracker 2.0. My browser has some trouble loading the page but it's supposed to be an interactive map showing the supposed locations of "posthumans". The August 8 and 11 messages egged people to participate in the "disruption" activity. The August 14 message pointed to the 9thWonder message board.

Heroes: Villains premieres on 9.22.08:

I sure hope C/S picks it up soon. If I have to rely on StarWorld, I don't think I'll be seeing Season 3 in the near future considering that they are only starting to show Season 2.