Yowazzup: A Directory of Happening Things

Charlie Wilson’s War is a movie about Texas congressman Charlie Wilson’s covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects. The movie has released in the States on December 21, 2007 and will only be released in the rest of the world in 2008.

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Enchanted may seems to be another Disney fairytale movie but it’s not. There are more predications in this movie than movies like Beowulf and Hitman.

SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In an animated world of Andalasia, Giselle is a beautiful young woman who lives in a forest dreaming of her one true love, singing along with the birds, rats and other animals. Prince Edward hears her singing and they fall in love immediately and plan to wed the following morning.

Prince Edward’s step-mother the queen who is also a witch wants the threat to her crown removed so she plots a scheme to get rid of Giselle. On the day Giselle is supposed to wed Prince Edward, Queen Narissa disguises as a wicked old woman who pushes Giselle down a well where she enters the ‘real’ world of New York.

In New York, Giselle (Amy Adams) meets a divorce attorney, Robert Philip (Patrick Dempsey) who is about to become engaged to Nancy (Idina Menzel) and his 6-year-old daughter.

Prince Edward kneeling down in front of Giselle

A lot of funny moments happen between the time Giselle waits for her prince charming, Prince Edward to rescue her. As the story goes on, both Robert and Giselle unconsciously fall in love with each other.

In order to stop Prince Edward from finding his true love, Giselle, Queen Narissa sends Nathaniel (Timothy Spall) to the real world to stop them by giving her poisoned apple. After Nathaniel fails in numerous attempts, Queen Narissa comes to the real world in her last attempt to break up the couple.

When Queen Narissa finally manages to poison Giselle, only true love’s kiss can wake Giselle up. Prince Edward tries to kiss Giselle several times but to no avail. When Robert kisses her, it takes awhile before she wakes up. Thereafter, sparks by her angers, Queen Narissa turns into a blue dragon and kidnaps Robert. She climbs up the building to the highest floor. Giselle kills the queen with Prince Edward’s sword in order to save Robert from certain doom. Edward returns to the animated world with Nancy and Giselle stays in New York with Robert and his daughter and they all live happily ever after.

Overall, it’s a humorous romantic film with great laughters throughout the movie. Though fairytale does not happen in real life, it does not need to be complicated. In one occasion, Giselle manages to bring a couple back from the brink of divorce and reunite the couple to the once lovey-dovey state they were in.

Moral of the story:

• Don’t fall in love with anyone and get married after one day
• Have as many dates with each other in order to understand each other
• All relationships have problems and hardships - it’s worth it to face all the problems and hardships for the good return, just like a business and its ROI… LoL!

My rating: 7 out of 10 for its originality.

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