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In this article we're going to cover one of the most unusual musicals of our time, the part human, part animated Mary Poppins.

Mary Poppins. It's probably the one musical responsible for making Julie Andrews a household name. But Mary Poppins was more than just that.

The musical movie, made in 1964, was probably the crowning achievement in Walt Disney's career. It was his first feature to mix real people with animated characters. At the time, this was some pretty cool stuff. And Disney made sure that everything for this movie masterpiece was just right. He hired one of the best songwriting teams of the time, the Sherman brothers, Robert and Richard. The score for this movie is still to this day considered the teams best ever. The movie itself was nominated for 13 Oscars. It won 5 of those nominations, including Best Actress, Julie Andrews, Best Musical Score, and Best Song, "Chim Chim Cher-ee."

But Mary Poppins was more than just great music. It was a purely delightful story of two children in desperate need of their father's love. Ultimately it took Mary Poppins to make the father realize that it wasn't a nanny that the children needed but their father. As the movie goes on we get to see this man, who at first is only concerned with the bottom line figures at his bank, transform into a loving father who takes his children out to fly a kite. Ultimately, Poppins, who the children had grown to love almost as a mother, drops out of the picture at the end realizing that the children belong with their father and that she would only be in the way. The ultimate sacrifice one would say.

Musical highlights in this one are numerous. There is of course the ever popular "Spoonful Of Sugar" which Poppins sings to the children in order to get them to take their medicine after an outing in the rain. Then there is the classic "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" which was sung during the animated horse race that Poppins, Bert the chimney sweeper and the children attended. And if you want to hear one of the most beautiful songs ever, and sung by an angelic voice, there is "Feed The Birds." This is probably the highlight of Andrews' vocal performances. Aside from that, the story of the old lady feeding the birds is one that only a soul without a heart wouldn't cry to. Of course you can't leave out the Oscar winning tune "Chim Chim Cher-ee" which was sung during Poppins', Bert's and the children's moonlight walk on top of the buildings of the city.

The great music just goes on and on. There isn't a bad tune in this movie. The final tune "Fly A Kite" where the father and children are finally doing something together as a family is really what the whole thing is all about. Yes, a lot of this musical is pure fantasy. But the lessons taught are lessons that every parent in this world should long remember. Children need their parents, not a nanny. Even if she can talk to animated creatures

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"Guys and Dolls" is a charming movie based on the Broadway musical of the same name. The movie stars Frank Sinatra as Nathan Detroit, operator of a floating crap game in New York City in the 1950. It also stars Marlon Brando as Sky Masterson, a high roller with lots of luck, Jean Simmons as Sgt. Sarah Brown, a young woman in charge of a mission, and Vivian Blaine as Adelaide, a nightclub singer and Nathan's fiancee of 14 years.

At the beginning of the film, Nathan is in trouble because he and his associates are unable to find a suitable location for their floating crap game, and Lt. Brannigan is hot on their trail. His only option is to pay $1000 to have the game in the Biltmore garage, but he doesn't have the money. In order to try to obtain it, he decides to bet Sky $1000 that he can't take Sarah to Havana with him. Sky finds he's hard-pressed to win this bet, but after much persuasion, he gets her to agree to come with him in exchange for a dozen sinners to be delivered by him to her mission.

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In Havana, Sky and Sarah end up falling in love. Once they return, they find the mission taken over by a group of gamblers led by Nathan. They rush out once they discover Lt. Brannigan is looking for them there. Sarah is heartbroken, thinking Sky was responsible. The gang decides to continue their crap game at a new location under the sewers of New York. Then Sky gets a brilliant idea of betting the rest of the gamblers $1000 each against their souls, so that if he wins they all have to agree to come to Sarah's mission. He wins and they all arrive shortly after midnight, making good on Sky's earlier promise to Sarah. Sarah protects the gamblers from Lt. Brannigan when he comes looking for them. Sky also tells Nathan that he lost the bet and pays him $1000.

The movie ends with a double wedding at a busy street corner in New York City, in which Sky marries Sarah and Nathan marries Adelaide.

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Starring: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis
Directed by: Darren AronofskyBrave and beautiful, ‘The Fountain’ is one of the most striking and most wonderful films I have ever seen in my entire life. This experimental narrative impresses and indulges. It is such an organic opus for director Darren Aronofsky… and I really salute every single person involved in the making of this film.

I think this is the most personal film review I have ever made to date…

More than being an audio-visual masterpiece, this open-ended, surreal, and lingering within human’s stream-of-consciousness film triggers a world of visionary artistry stimulating not just the eyes and ears – it goes down to a human being’s very senses until it reaches the core of the soul. A haunting and remarkable journey that takes a viewer to various places and levels of consciousness, ‘The Fountain’ addresses such a metaphysical, emotional, and spiritual topic by utilizing an instinctive human language of pure cinematic poetry. Indeed, it gives that mystical, astonishing, and evocative film experience.

I do know that this film won’t affect every person watching it the way it struck me, but surely, at one point, every person who gets to watch this film will get a knock on the door of his/her soul… with lingering questions about love, life, and death... Some of the people from behind me at the moviehouse have actually called it weird. Maybe it is… and maybe I just share the same wavelength with such a vision that’s why I have appreciated it so much… but with all conviction, I do believe that if a person opens his/her mind to the ‘weirdness’ that they call, this cinematic poem will surely tap the subconscious into some miraculous transcendence. It will make the viewer wonder, question, and evaluate the unanswered inquiries he/she has since his/her childhood days… The film will not impose a concrete answer – but the magic of it is that it makes the viewer think and absorb the experience to think and act for the more important things in the present life than getting the concrete answers to the questions left unanswered since time immemorial.

‘The Fountain’ is a meditative film. Some may find it a soothing and suiting meditation on love and life, on life and death, on struggling and accepting, on beginning and end. It works in many levels. And yet there is a perfect coherence in Aronofsky’s sense of imagery. With a careful and artistic hand, he paints complementing images and scenes that are meant to invoke feelings than making outright conclusions. It has an amazingly unified theme-driven story. Moreover, ‘The Fountain’ is an experimental narrative with such experimental film elements evoking the right emotions and triggering a validating stream of consciousness from its metaphysical aspects to convey its message and promote the film experience it aims. Indeed, this film about humanity's mad struggle to find a cure for man’s transience is a powerfully engaging examination of mortality and loss wrapped up in a finely weaved sci-fi fantasy. And the film makes its own representation of addressing such an idea as: ‘Life is short, and so, we should make the most of it, and at the same time, live by the values we learn from it, and we shall finally find contentment with what forever has in stored for us…’

The splendid visual, sound and music elements, the enchanting storytelling, the taut acting, the powerful direction… together they make up this masterpiece. With each rhyming images and visual metaphors, every beat and unit of the actual film are carefully threaded together to give a tap to the soul and its lifetime of inquiries – its very idea may go beyond the scope of human understanding; but its emotional force really surfaces effectively to bequeath that mystical, soulful experience.

‘The Fountain’ is a risky and yet uncompromising cinematic work. Aronofsky tries to replace the prose of the already marked narrative storytelling by coming up with three distinct themes that gradually come together in a movement that is both powerful and beautiful. It’s a thought-provoking, emotionally honest drama that is steeped in love and loss. And with its time-spanning love story, it is inventive in using organic means to come up with much of its special effects; thus, creating a more organic and dynamic feel to it. Furthermore, the film pushes the audience’s flights of imagination into new facets and dimensions. Indeed, Aronofsky displays such an admirable film discipline. He proves that film is a really powerful medium, and even though the formula conquers the motion picture industry, a filmmaker can still live up with a unique language that is challenging and refreshing – and this is such an achievement.

Noticeably, in the film’s flash website under Warner and the write-ups/PRs directly coming from Warner, I would have to agree with Aronofsky advocating the idea that the people working for the film are all filmmakers. It is such an honor to share some similar insights with one admirable filmmaker as him. And one of these insights, I can not let pass not saying here… I have publicly said in one of my film reviews before (from my film review of the Filipino film entitled ‘Ilusyon’), that in any filmmaking endeavor, every person, whether working in front of the camera or behind the scene, is a filmmaker. I know this is fair enough to understand; while elaborating with this would probably need a new article/essay to write about.

The sterling performances from its actors and actresses are splendid. Even the minor characters not uttering much dialogues show distinctly effective roles with their few seconds of screen time. And of course, the two main characters wonderfully validate the film’s vision. This is a film anyone seeking a truly original experience at the cinema should partake in.

Personally, ‘The Fountain’ goes along with films like ‘Pi’ (Aronofsky’s first feature), ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (from the late film genius Stanley Kubrick) and ‘Solaris’ (from insightful filmmaker Steven Soderbergh). Just like these classics, ‘The Fountain’ is hugely ambitious and visually commanding, misunderstood by many, and respectively underrated. It has a complex impact that defies mainstream’s overused receptivity.

With this profound work, Aronofsky speeds back and forth across centuries with such virtuosity. He is a visionary director. And he is one of the rare filmmakers offering up such a challenging vision to a mainstream audience without playing safe and making much pretentions. Also, it is interesting to note that no spoilers can mainly affect every single film experience one can get in this motion picture.

The only thing that becomes a little more ‘improvable’ (pardon my lack of a better term for now) – as for how it struck me then – is the presentation of the future Tommy who is an astronaut in a bubble-looking spacecraft. Actually, I can clearly appreciate the point that Tommy’s various incarnations are being presented with the distinct position/profession complementing the eras that they live: a conquistador, a scientist, and an astronaut. All of them work effectively to the idea that Tommy’s soul explores and seeks answers for all those lifetimes. However, while watching the film, it has never gotten into me that the future character is actually an astronaut… I am not completely sure if there is something I missed to further understand its deeper roots, or maybe it will just come in time for me after carefully digesting the story, or maybe it will get into me only after watching it again… I have actually gotten the fact that he is an astronaut only upon reading the film’s synopsis. I just missed that with me thinking that the astronaut character is actually a person from the future who is meditating, and at the same time, struggling in his sacred space. Well, I guess, just like any other true work of art, there are things that can become a little missed by a spectator/appreciator. (Sometimes, I just wonder if I might then be a poor victim of the too conquistador clichés, too scientific interpretations, and too objective approaches seeking for much literality for the images I see…) Nevertheless, this is another interesting part – that my mind further gets stimulated with it while initially thinking and evaluating the film.

Personally, it is my dream to make a film that can weave the various cultures of the world and impart a universal message. And it is impressive to note that ‘The Fountain’ achieves this dream. And as a part of the audience drawn by its brilliance, it is so wonderful to see a collaboration of concepts from science and religion, art and science, and physicality and spirituality within one ‘whole’ film. Furthermore, it is fulfilling to see all the elements of drama, romance, fantasy, and sci-fi all in the right places as it crafts such a marvelous piece of work.

Just like a friend of mine saying, ‘Either you love it or hate it,’ and I would have to agree with that, this film is definitely not something for everyone, as a lot of people will probably think it's too difficult or eclectic. It can probably get underappreciated by most. But come to think of it, it’s not a matter of extracting mathematical results from the story. Its very essence would like to make people feel and experience… and think. And if a viewer just opens, at least, a curtain from the windows of their mind and hearts, they can later on embrace the totality of the film experience… and that’s where some form of appreciation and fulfillment comes... In another manner of saying it, one can appreciate it in a similar way as appreciating a poem or an impressionistic painting.

This film is the type of film that one can actually watch over and over again and still get significant meanings from every cinematic experience it offers. It touches and enlightens in various ways and means. With me, after going out of the cinema, I have told myself: ‘This film opens up lessons for the soul…’

All my respect to Darren Aronofsky… Along with Tim Burton, meeting Aronofsky in person would be one of my greatest dreams (I wish I had the chance to meet the late Stanley Kubrick too…). If Aronofsky ever goes to the Philippines, or if I have the chance to meet him anywhere else in the world, I would never pass any opportunity to meet him in person and discuss something about his films and ask questions about filmmaking. And if, by any twist of fate, this article reaches him, with all respect, I would have to take the opportunity to say ‘I am grateful to have known a filmmaker as you who have offered me such resounding experiences through watching your films. I have watched ‘Pi’ when I was still in film school. I love your works and your discipline and your courage. I am a fan. If I were from America, I would most likely seek apprenticeship under such a respectable auteur as you. I will always live by the craft with inspirations coming from your works. You have been a great influence… And I am looking forward to seeing more of your films in this lifetime…’

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"2010: The Year We Make Contact" is the long-awaited sequel to "2010: A Space Odyssey". Though nowhere near the quality of the original, it's still an excellent film in my opinion. The movie stars Roy Scheider as Dr. Heywood Floyd, the scientist who'd studied the Monolith on the moon in the original film, though a different actor was used in that one.

In "2010", Dr. Floyd is sent on a Soviet mission to Jupiter aboard the Leonov, a Russian spaceship, to investigate the larger version of the Monolith orbiting the planet as well as to determine what went wrong with the original mission. The United States and the Soviet Union are on very bad terms, but Dr. Floyd manages to convince the government to put him on the mission.

Dr. Floyd is awoken from hibernation and told of the possible discovery of life on Europa, one of Jupiter's large moons. The crew sends a probe down to Europa to investigate. They find a life form, but what appears to be a large electrostatic discharge destroys the probe along with its telemetry. Dr. Floyd interprets this as a warning from some higher intelligence connected with the Monolith to stay away from Europa.

After performing aerobraking through Jupiter's atmosphere, the crew arrives at the Discovery, which has become a derelict ship orbiting Io, a large volcanic moon. The other two American astronauts, Dr. Chandra, programmer of HAL, and Dr. Curnow, systems engineer who designed the Discovery, are revived from hibernation and board the Discovery along with Dr. Floyd. Curnow powers up the Discovery and Chandra revives HAL, determining the cause of his earlier malfunction as due to being given government orders to keep the Monolith a secret, which had conflicted with his design capabilities.

Next the crew journey to the Monolith, with both ships tethered together. Max, one of the Russian crewmembers, is ordered to pilot a probe down to the Monolith against the better judgment of his American counterparts. He ends up getting swallowed up by the Monolith and presumably killed.

Shortly thereafter, David Bowman's ghost visits his former wife, appearing to her on her TV screen. He also visits his mother in a nursing home, just before she dies. Meanwhile, relations heat up between the US and the Soviet Union to the point of a formal declaration of war, whence the Americans are ordered to return to the Discovery and prepare for a return trip home.

Dr. Floyd gets an unexpected visit from David Bowman's spirit, who tells him the crew must leave in two days because something wonderful is going to happen. In panic, Dr. Floyd rushes to the Leonov and tells the captain to prepare for an early departure. He devises a clever scheme of using the Discovery as a booster. Then they notice that the Monolith has mysteriously disappeared.

As the crew prepare for their departure, they discover a mysterious black spot on Jupiter. Upon further investigation, they notice that it's composed of millions of copies of the Monolith, which are multiplying exponentially and threatening to engulf the planet. HAL has been ordered to sacrifice the Discovery as well as himself in order to save the Leonov crew. Dr. Chandra tries to persuade HAL to do this at first without telling him the true reason, but eventually he does and HAL agrees to proceed. With the crew on board, the Leonov detatches from the Discovery, which ends up getting engulfed by the shock wave following the destruction of Jupiter, but the Leonov remains a safe distance away.

In the process of being destroyed, Jupiter is converted into a new star, providing heat for Europa. Just prior to the destruction of the Discovery, David Bowman's spirit had communicated with HAL and told him to broadcast the message "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE." The message appears on the ship's consoles monitoring the new star, whence they learn the true purpose of the mission. The United States and the Soviet Union also agree to end the war.

The movie ends thousands of years in the future, after the ice has melted on Europa, and it has become a lush jungle. A new version of the Monolith appears on Europa.

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"The Gods Must Be Crazy" is a very entertaining and educational film about the Kung Bushmen, an African tribe from the Kalahare Desert in Botswana in southern Africa. The film cleverly contrasts their lives to those of "civilized men".

The movie involves three subplots which come together by the end. The main plot involves a tribe of Kung Bushmen, who one day discover a Coke bottle, which had been dropped from a plane. Not knowing what it is, the tribe discover several uses for "the thing". They end up fighting over it, whence they decide that it is evil. Xi (N!Xau), a young member of the tribe, decides to throw it off the edge of the earth.

A second plot involves a bumbling microbiologist, who's asked to drive a dilapidated truck to meet a new schoolteacher. He's very uncomfortable around women and ends up making a fool of himself repeatedly around her.

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The third plot involves a gang of political terrorists, who attempt to assassinate the president of their country in central Africa. They end up killing three member of the cabinet and fleeing to Botswana.

Eventually Xi encounters the microbiologist and his friend as well as the schoolteacher. He thinks they're gods at first and tries to return the Coke bottle to them, but they won't take it. Xi gets in trouble when he kills a goat with a bow and arrow without realizing the goat was the property of a boy. The police arrest him and sentence him to three months in jail, but the microbiologist and his friend manage to get him released into their custody.

One day, the gang of terrorists, while being pursued, end up kidnapping the class of the schoolteacher. The leader of the gang makes them march through the desert, signalling for the delivery of food every 20 miles. Eventually Xi spots the children and the biologist devises a clever plan to free them from the terrorists. He asks Xi to sting them with small pellets filled with a tranquilizing agent, which makes them fall asleep. He then rounds them up, including two Xi had missed because they were hiding in the bushes playing cards.

Having freed the hostages, Xi is allowed to leave. Eventually he comes to a big cliff with a thick layer of clouds below, which looks to him like the edge of the earth, and throws the bottle off.

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"A Clockwork Orange" is a disturbing film set in a violent world in the near future. The film concerns Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) and his gang of "droogs", who go out at night performing all manners of "ultraviolence". The language spoken in Nadsat, a fictional futuristic English dialect.

The movie begins in London, where Alex and his gang beat up an old beggar on a bridge near the Thames. They go on to perform more horrific acts, including beating up a rival gang, terrorizing drivers on a country road, and tying up and beating a writer at his house and raping his wife. Alex ends up antagonizing the rest of his gang, so they plot against him. Eventually they betray him to the police after he breaks into a house and murders a young woman.

Alex spends the next two years in prison. While there, he overhears of an experimental procedure known as the Ludovico technique, which supposedly makes bad people good, ensuring that they never return to prison. He opts for the procedure, which lasts two weeks. The procedure involves being given an experimental serum which produces an adverse reaction to violence and being forced to watch violent films. By the end of his treatment, he's supposedly cured, though he is unable to act violently, even in self-defense. The treatment also has the adverse side effect of making Alex go crazy upon hearing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which he used to love.

The day he is freed turns out to be horrible for Alex. First he tries to return home, but finds his parents have rented out his room and won't allow him to return. He tries to fight off the new tenant but becomes sick in the process. Then he wanders out in the street where he encounters the same old beggar, who recognizes him and harasses him along with a group of old men. The police come to break up the brawl, but the policemen turn out to be none other than two of his old gang members, who beat him up and nearly kill him.

Wandering aimlessly, Alex ends up back at the house of the writer, who does not recognize him because he and his gang members had been wearing masks. The writer read about his treatment in the newspapers and sympathizes with him, so he agrees to take him in. Shortly thereafter, however, he discovers Alex's true identity, whence he drugs him and forces him to listen to Beethoven's Ninth. Alex tries to kill himself by jumping out of the window, but manages to survive.

In the end, Alex is hospitalized. The doctors reverse the Ludovico procedure, so he can once again listen to Beethoven's Ninth and no longer has an adverse reaction to violence. Alex ends up working for the Minister of the Interior, who'd approved the procedure which nearly killed him, in order to restore the Minister's public image.

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Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls – the tale of two people from completely different worlds brought together by tragic circumstances.  This romantic comedy is the story of a father that is separated from his kids and given to their mother.  But in this case having the children with their mother is NOT a good idea.  You see, the mother is a drug dealer and shacked up with the drug kingpin of the neighborhood.  The mother doesn’t even want the children but because of spite she will keep them just so the father does not have them.  It is Monty’s job to do everything he can to get his children back and out of a household that is ingrained in crime.  As a result, Monty enlists the help of Julia.  A high class lawyer that has never lost a case, nor had a truly fulfilling relationship with a true man.  The beginning interaction between Monty and Julia are rocky and twisted with a image that all black men from the wrong side of the street are never good hard working individuals.  Julia mentality is that these men are lazy and out of touch with reality.  That is compounded by the friends that she has.

Monty on the other hand is not really looking for a relationship in the beginning.  He is more concerned with one buying the auto shop that he works in and getting custody of his three young children.  You will have to see this movie to feel the highs and lows of the emotion expressed from these actors.

Daddy’s little girls take you on a roller coaster from the beginning to the end of the picture.  You emotions start with glee as joy that Monty’s children are well taken care of.  Next, your emotions go to fear when the drug kingpin is introduced.  Then you get the anger when you see the pain the children are put through away from their father.  Then you feel the LOVE once Monty and Julia start their courtship.  Then you feel the peace once the preaching is done.  Finally, you get the explosion at the end, the anger, peace and joy of the outcome.  You would be hard pressed to miss this movie.  Daddy’s little girl, a must see for all ages.

Rated: PG-13
Playing Time: 95 Minutes
2006

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"Quiet My Dummy Want To Talk", this is a classic line from the movie and if you have seen this movie then you know what I am talking about.  If you have not see the movie, then what are you waiting for.

Night at the museum is a classic Ben Stiller movie, the dry humor and the physical commedy.

Larry Daley played by Ben Stiller is a struggling entrepreneur that believes that he is distant for fame and fortune.  Unfortunately, that fortune has not come and he is down on his luck.  Having just separated from his wife and moving from one place to another Larry is convinced by his ex wife that he will need to get a job or she may have to stop visitation with their son.  Larry does not want that so in desperation he goes to a job agency to try to get a full time job.  At first they were not able to find a match for him.  But after exhibiting determined attitude the clerk grants him a long shot, a job at the local science museum.  It’s a long shot because everyone previous to Larry we’re turned down from the position by the museum.  Larry quickly accepts the position as a graveyard-shift security guard.

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Larry shows up for the shift and finds out very quickly that there is something different about this museum.  It seems that the displays don’t stay still at night.  They all become free roaming individuals only at night.  This becomes the challenge for Larry.  How to guard the displays and in the first few days stay alive with live Lions and epic war battle are re-enacted nightly at a drop of a dime.  Larry also has to deal with the fact that all of the displays have to stay in the museum or they will disintegrate and no longer exist if left out after sunrise.

Night at the Museum is a great movie with a story line that actually attempts to teach a little history.  The story line was well thought of and carried me along the whole length of the movie.  The main characters, his son and President Teddy Roosevelt played by Robin Williams bring a wealth of depth to the already strong story.  I would not have any problems taking children to this movie.  The story line is clean and without any blemish.  If I had a rating system I would give this movie 5 stars out of 5..

Rated: PG
Playing Time: 108 Minutes
2006

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By Kenneth Elliott

Eddie Murphy has gotten himself another hit in Norbit, the tail of a meek man that finds the love of his dreams.  Norbit played by Eddie Murphy starts his life as a timid orphaned who had friend at the orphanage except one young girl.  They were best friends and did everything together until she was adopted.  The adoption left Norbit alone and with no friends; enters his soon to be obnoxious wife, played by Eddie Murphy, who befriends Norbit.  She instantly makes him her boyfriend.  No one dared to speak bad or mess with Norbit after that.  Not only is she obnoxious but she is a kick butt and ask questions later kind of women.  Norbit has the protection and has now been taken in by his soon to be wife’s family.  This family is the roughest group of individuals in town.  Their like the neighborhood gangsters, and their all brothers and sisters.  Norbit is scared and is talked into marrying his overbearing controlling girlfriend.

Norbit believes his life is over until he sees his long lost friend from the orphanage.  She is looking to move back in town and take over the orphanage that is scheduled to be sold.  Norbit instantly falls in love with his old friend but his overbearing wife is not going to have that.  She beats him, sabotages his conversations, and absolutely tries to make it a living hell for Norbit.  Norbit now has to find the courage to one find the truth about what his wife’s brothers are trying to do with the orphanage and also find the courage to stand up to his monstrous wife once and for all and find the true love that he is wanting for.

Norbit was the most hilarious movie that I have seen in a long time.  The story line kept the pace of the moving from beginning to end.  The only problem that I found with this movie is that it was marketed as a movie that children could see.  That is so far from the truth.  This is not a movie that children should ever see.  It has adult content with subjective comments and actions.  The violence is also very high on the meter.  Even though a lot of the violence was slaphappy violence it still is not appropriate for children under 13 to see.  Other than that this is a great movie that I would even see more than once.  That is saying a lot.  Most of the movies release today I could only stand to see it one time.  But the comedy in this movie is so good you may just have to see it twice.

If I had a star system I would give this move 5 stars out of 5.Rated: PG-13
Playing Time: 102 Minutes
2007

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Spiderman 3 opens the summer movie session with its premiere on May 4th. After the black-hole period of January and February, at least when it comes to movies, Spider-Man 3 and a suite of other movies bring a breath of fresh air to the movie industry.

Let's face it - when it comes to this part of winter, the offer isn't really that great. The Christmas specials are over (thank God!) and whether they're new and high-tech or the same you see each year, they've left room for...well, not much really. This is the time of year when the movie companies release all sorts of class B movies (mostly horrors or flimsy comedies), lacking other immediate options.

It happens every year. This spring, however, Spiderman 3 seems to be one of the most awaited blockbusters. The third and final part of the trilogy by Sam Raimi, it closes the series with an inner battle. The movie's tagline is 'Next Summer the Greatest Battle Lies Within' - accurately descriptive of he character's situation. Peter Parker is taken over by a strange entity from beyond our own world. It causes him more trouble than villains and mischief by interfering with his everyday life. And above everything, he has to fight more evil doers, resist temptation and take his revenge. Spider-Man 3 brings a slightly darker face of things to life, making the Peter Parker story more complex.

Sam Raimi is a prolific producer, actor, director and writer. Spider-Man 3 is said to be his masterpiece. However, his attraction for the movie industry started out when he was little. Big fan of The Three Stooges, as a teenager he used to make movies with an 8mm camera and the influences of The Stooges' movies were obvious. Later on, he directed a series of comic horrors and comic book based movies. They had moderate success throughout the 80's, but definitely increased his filming abilities and skills.

After some favorable critic reviews, he finally made it big in 2002 with the first part of the Spiderman series. Ever since, his fame soared. If in the 80's he had to take his unsuccessful flicks to Europe when they were rejected in the U.S., he has now gained the respect of Americans critics and fans once and for all.

Spiderman 3 already finds lead actors Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst as extremely renowned actors. Not among their first movies, but definitely destined to reach a wider public than others, the first Spiderman film opened up the gates of Hollywood for the two. Thus, their freshly-gained popularity made way for other projects, at least as interesting as this one.

In any case, things weren't always like this. Before Spider-Man 3, with its famous actors, director, and millions of related items sold worldwide, there was a young cartoonist. In 1962, Stan Lee brought a new comic book superhero to life. The business had been dominated up to that point by fully-grown, muscle-bound tough guys. The contrast was more than obvious - Peter Parker was nothing but a frustrated teenager who wanted to make things better for himself and for the ones around him, and who, for the first time, actually could do it. It obviously hit a soft spot with millions of teenagers facing the same problems, tired of unrealistic, complex-generating comic book heroes. They wanted someone they could relate to, and Peter Parker was just that; more than 40 years later, Spiderman 3 is a legend.

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From a weary comic book character in the 60's to a worldwide blockbuster, Spiderman 3, Peter Parker has touched and inspired millions. Spider-Man 3 is to be released on May 4th and it is the crowning achievement of director Sam Raimi and lead actors. A definite must-see!

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