Yowazzup: A Directory of Happening Things

How to Train Your Dragon is an animated film about a comedy adventure set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons. Starring the voice of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson, How to Train Your Dragon opens on March 26, 2010.

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Law Abiding Citizen is thriller film about an everyday guy whom decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets his family’s killers free. His target: The district attorney who orchestrated the deal. Starring Gerard Butler, Leslie Bibb, Jamie Foxx, Law Abiding Citizen opens on October 16, 2009.

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The Ugly Truth is a movie about a romantically challenged morning show producer (Katherine Heigl) who is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent (Gerard Butler) to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. The movie will be in theaters on April 3, 2009.

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RocknRolla is a crime film directed by Guy Ritchie starring Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton, and Tom Wilkinson. The movie about a real estate scam set up by a Russian mobster that generates millions of pounds and various members of London’s criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune.

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Nim’s Island is an adventure-fantasy film based on the book of the same name by Wendy Orr. Directed by Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, the movie stars Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster and Gerard Butler.

SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin in "Nim’s Island"

Nim Rusoe (Abigail Breslin) is an 11-year-old girl who loves to imagine based on her favorite fictional character, Alex Rover (Gerard Butler). Her father, Jack Rusoe (also played by Butler) is a popular scientist and writer live together with her daughter (and her daughter’s animal friends) in an isolated island. The secret location of the island is revealed to nobody except their provisions suppliers.

When Nim’s father goes missing on the island on his trip to find "Nim’s Protozoa", Nim becomes desperate and email Alex Rover to come save her father, didn’t realize that Alex Rover on the book, who is a brave, daring male adventurer is different from the real Alex Rover a.k.a. Alexandra Rover (Jodie Foster) — a conservative woman who has never been out of apartment for months.

Guided by an imaginative character, Alex Rover, Alexandra brave herself by flying to Borneo, taking helicopter and stealing boat to reach the remote island based on the email communication they had just to save the little girl, Nim.

Meanwhile, Jack is stranded in the middle of an ocean with a sinking boat, thanks to Galileo (Nim’s friend), Jack manages to salvage his tools and fix his boat in order to return to the island. When he finally manages to return home, so happen, Alexandra is right there as though as she’s waiting for Jack Rusoe. The movie ends with the three of them together live happily ever after and U2’s Beautiful Day is played over the credits.

Overall, it is quite a decent movie with exaggeration which sometimes is too good to be true. After all, Nim’s Island is a fantasy film, so it is alright.

My ratings: 6 out of 10.

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Anything can happen on Nim’s Island, a magical place ruled by a young girl’s imagination. Very cool.

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