Aaahhh!!! Real Monsters!!

After almost a decade and a half of being off the air, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters finally comes to DVD thanks to Shout! Factory. I've made it a goal of mine to get all the DVD releases of the old Nickelodeon shows Shout! releases on DVD, and I was doing very well. Until all of a sudden, the stores in my area, Walmart, Target, even Best Buy, stopped selling these releases, old and new. I have no clue what happened there, but it made it very difficult to get the DVDs, as I wished to get them on the day they were released. Most recently, Walmart isn't even selling newer releases online. I don't know how Shout! is expecting to make money off these with such limited releases.

Today I ordered the newest releases of The Angry Beavers, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Danny Phantom, and Hey Arnold all online.

Also finished season 2 of Real Monsters today. It has become one of my favorite older cartoons, and I had never even heard of the show before Shout! started releasing it on DVD last October. The only thing I really don't like about these releases, is that there are no special features! >:(

For those who don't know, it's a pretty dark show, like Invader Zim, that centers around a trio of monsters that are in school for the art of scaring humans. The show takes events and obstacles that happen in our every day lives, and twists them to what they might be like if monsters truly did exist. This is a show I'd recommend to any cartoon lover like myself! :)

Resident Evil: Retribution

Want to know a little secret? I hadn't seen a single Resident Evil film before last weekend. And with Retribution being the FIFTH film in the franchise, I had to catch up pretty quickly.

With my boyfriend wanting to see Retribution for his birthday, I wasn't going to go see it without seeing the other films. I'd have been hella confused. So I made it my ultimate goal last week to watch all the films! Sad thing was, I have owned the first three for about four months now, just hadn't got around to watching them yet.

But with how addicting these movies are, it was pretty easy for me to get caught up. I watched the first three in one sitting.. I quickly fell in love with Alice and all her badassness (don't think that's a word, but oh well.)

*A few minor spoilers below. You've been warned.* 

And we went to see Resident Evil: Retribution as planned yesterday :) I thought it was a lot better than Afterlife, but it lacked. I don't know what exactly it lacked, I was just very unfulfilled when the credits rolled at the end. I felt the only point of this film was to set up for the supposed sixth and final film to be released after this one. Good thing about this film: it made me jump. You could tell with the first four films that there were parts in there that were to scare the audience and make them jump out of their seats, but that never happened for me :P In this film, I jumped many a times. It was nice ;)

I LOVED that they brought a bunch of characters from the old films back, even after they already met their demise. Like my favorite character from the first film: Michelle Rodriguez as Rain :)

I'd say wait for this film on DVD. As you'll probably want/need to rewatch it when the sixth film comes out.

Survey Says... Danny Phantom!

Danny Phantom is one of my absolute favorite shows from Nickelodeon! And when Shout Factory! announced last year that they had got the rights to it (along with many other old Nick shows), I was so excited about getting them on DVD!

Season 2, Part 1 was released April 3, 2012, so OF COURSE I went out and bought it (I did the same for Season 1) :3 But I feel like ShoutFactory! didn't really give a shit about this release. The artwork is cool and all, but the actual content on the discs are all screwed up.

The inside artwork of the DVD set lists the first ten episodes as being:

1. Memory Bank
2. Doctor's Orders
3. Pirate Radio
4. Reign Storm, Part 1
5. Reign Storm, Part 2
6. Identity Crisis
7. Fenton Menace
8. The Ultimate Enemy, Part 1
9. The Ultimate Enemy, Part 2
10. The Fright Before Christmas

The list on the artwork is 100% correct, as that's the order the episodes were originally released by Nickelodeon while they were on air. HOWEVER (and this is what really saddens me), while watching the DVD, I noticed the episodes are ordered all out-of-whack, some are missing, and some are on the set that shouldn't be there. The DVD episodes go in the order of:

1. Reign Storm, Part 1
2. Reign Storm, Part 2
3. Doctor's Orders
4. Identity Crisis
5. Fenton Menace
6. Pirate Radio
7. The Fright Before Christmas
8. Micro-Management (should be in part 2)
9. Masters of All Time (should be in part 2)
10. Beauty Marked (should be in part 2)

So yeah, way to show no respect for the fans of a show. It looks like they just slapped together a bunch of episodes that just HAPPENED to be in Season 2 of the show, called them part 1, and hoped no one would notice. And so, obviously part 2 (whenever it's released), will be just as jumbled of a mess to finish up the season. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that Season 3 isn't as out of order as this was.

**UPDATE**
ShoutFactory! commented on a Facebook post I left them about this issue, and they stated that the episodes on the DVD are in the order that they intended, but there was a misprint with the DVD artwork. They informed me to email them about getting the correct DVD wrap, so I'm doing just that! >.>

X-Men: Worst Class

When X-Men: First Class first came out this past June, I went straight to theaters to see it. I absolutely love any and all superhero movies, and I personally own all four previous X-Men movies AND the original animated series. So yeah, I went opening weekend to see it. And I thought it was the absolute worst X-Men movie of the franchise. And tonight, I watched it again, this time in the comfort of my own home, thinking maybe I missed something the first time around that everyone else apparently fell in love with. But nope. 

I was very disappointed that the only original cast members in this were Rebecca Romijn and Hugh Jackman, and they only had ten second cameos, without those cameos, I would never had watched this movie a second time. And my favorite X-Men (Storm) didn't have the screen time she deserved.

My biggest question: Why did the James McAvoy-version of Professor X constantly have the need to touch his head when using his ability? I do not recall the Patrick Stewart-version of Professor X ever doing that.. and James McAvoy didn't do it just once in awhile, he did it ALL THE FREAKING TIME! =/ Why? It seemed like James McAvoy was waaaay overacting on his part. 

With this film, James McAvoy has climbed the latter to becoming one of my least favorite actors. He's just horrible. 

I do not see how this movie is having such good reviews. Hopefully the sequel to this will impress me more.. they won't have to do much to do that. 

(Even the poster for the film is poorly made.. Photoshop at its worst!)

Sherlock Downey, Jr.

I'm going to come out and say that I'm probably one of the few select people in this worth that doesn't really like Robert Downey, Jr. I didn't like him in Iron Man, and I thought Iron Man 2 was one of the most boring movies ever, and I faintly remember what even happened in it.

That said, I absolutely LOVED him in Sherlock Holmes. This role I think is absolutely perfect for him. This movie doesn't really fall into the category of movies I usually watch, which is probably why it took me over 2 years from its original release to even watch it, but I really enjoyed it! The movie had great action, loads of mystery, and the perfect touch of comedy!

Every single character was beautifully cast, the sets were spectacular, the props and costumes were spot on! Watching this really has me more interested in seeing the sequel that's in theaters now!

I think, I think I love Beastly.

Beastly was AAA-MAZING!!! Only problem, was how bad some of Alex Pettyfer's lines were.. Ex: "I think, I think I love you.."...seriously? I don't blame Alex for how horrible that line sounded coming out of his mouth, that would be the writer's fault. And they whole part with them whispering outside the zoo.....Alex Pettyfer sounds like a creep when he whispers >.<

But I love love loveeeed Mary-Kate in this :D She's one bad-ass witch! And Vanessa Hudgens is just down right adorable ^-^

Had this movie had better scripting, it would have killed. Also, Alex Pettyfer can't pull off ugly. Even with all the tattoos and weird face blemishes, he was still hot. o.O But if you want a good adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, this is the movie for it!

Thorring!!

Thor would have been much better had there been less talking and more action! Overall, I thought the film was bad-ass, and definitely the beginning of a movie franchise.

But my thoughts on Chris Hemsworth are all over the place. His acting....not the spectacular. And I don't like his face.. if it were me, the camera would be focused on those abs 100% of the time. ;D It might just be that I haven't seen a lot from him, but next year with The Avengers and Snow White & the Huntsman, I should have a final decision by then.

But this was probably my favorite Stan Lee cameo in a Marvel movie, so that was pretty awesome =)

Kevin James, Zookeeper.

Normally, I don't really like Kevin James as an actor. I find most of his work outrageously unfunny, and pathetic. But this was probably one of my favorite films by him! I wanted to see this movie because 1) I love animals and 2) I wanted to be a zookeeper at one point. So I thought it'd be fun to watch this movie. And I was right!

This is a perfect family movie that both kids and adults could love! I watched it with both my younger siblings (7 and 12), and eventually my 16-year-old sister even walked in and got into it! Talking animals = good for kids. Big name celebs like Cher, Adam Sandler, and Sylvester Stallone voicing said animals = good for adults.

Crazy, Stupid, Slightly Entertaining, Love.

I wouldn't describe Crazy, Stupid, Love. as anything more than slightly entertaining. The only part I didn't see coming was that Hannah was the Weavers' daughter. I must have missed something at the beginning or whatever..

This is one of those movies where you only watch it because of one actor, and that actor lives up to your hopes and dreams, but the others kinda ruin it for you. Emma Stone is going to be my best man at my wedding because I love her so much, then you have Steve Carell there being the drunken cousin who ruins it all...  Steve Carell has shown me he can only do one type of acting, but for some reason people choose to watch that same type over and over and OVER again. He bores me. But this gets me even more excited to see Emma Stone in the Amazing Spider-man next year :D And I also ordered The Help to be my next choice from Netflix just to keep my Emma Stone high going ;D haha


This movie is very typical and predicatable. And only worth seeing for Emma Stone...and for Ryan Gosling taking his shirt off..

You're Welcome. :)

Super Ate!

Super 8....wow. Just....THIS MOVIE WAS SO FREAKING AMAZING! I definitely see Elle Fanning being bigger than her older sister! And I could also see all the other kid actors going on to be big in the future, especially Joel Courtney (Joe)!

The story was superb and the graphics were pretty sweet! The train wreck and spaceship scenes are what make this movie worth seeing!


And lastly, may I ask........sequel, please? :)

Captain Americ-awesome!

Probably one of the best superhero movies I have seen in a good ol' while!! =) Only thing that threw me for a bit of a loop, was whatever they did to get Chris Evans non-hunkish looking at the beginning.. his head definitely did not match his body!

And I'm not a comic-book person, so beforehand I hadn't really known the story or whatever of Captain America, nor his archenemies. Like Red Skull, first look at him, you'd think he could be a brother or cousin of Voldemort, who was simply dumped into some red dye.. o.O

But all in all, my title says it all: AWESOME! Five star material right hurrr!

The Worst Bridesmaids Ever

All I've heard about this movie is how awesome it is! And all the actresses were all spectacular! And la de da! 

Well, I felt this was one of the worst movies I have seen all year! It was just completely stupid and was trying too hard to get a joke across 90% of the time! 

The ONLY reason I even sparked interest in this movie, was that Melissa McCarthy was in it. And she was one of the only characters in this movie I actually enjoyed! I wanted to punch Annie in the face for most of the pathetic I've lost my spark and I need a man to complete me scenes she bombed! 

I will NEVER watch this travesty again!