Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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The first three Harry Potter movies were great but things really started getting worse from the fourth installment. From the fourth part, Voldemort started appearing, the trio's friendship started getting complicated with possible love triangles and more focus was placed on those boring Quidditch matches. Anyways, that is not a matter of concern as I am about to review the third movie of the franchise. The most fascinating part of the Prisoner of Azkaban is obviously the time turning part of the movie, when Harry and Hermione go back in time to save Sirius Black. I also found the Death Eaters enticing.

The movie starts out with Harry getting in trouble once again at his Uncle Vernon's home. Furious, he decides to leave home early before school starts (after performing a bit of domestic magical violence). From people at Hogwarts, he learns that he is being hunted by an escaped Azkaban Prisoner, Sirius Black, who betrayed his father and was assisting Lord Voldemort. Death Eaters were stationed outside of Hogwarts who were on parole to hunt the escaped Sirius Black. After repeatedly sinister encounters with the Death Eaters, Harry looks up to Professor Lupin to learn how to defend himself from the deadly creatures. Harry, Hermione and Ron go on a quest to find out the truth behind the mysterious Sirius Black and his involvement in the death of his parents. While searching for the truth, the trio encounter an unexpected visit from werewolves, the Grim and Peter Pettigrew. When things don't work out as expected, they also get a second chance to save two innocent lives.

Though not as interesting as the first and second parts, this movie was obviously better than the latter parts of the series, intentionally made complicated when it should have remained identical to three friends coping with the strange life of Potter. Sirius taught us that the ones who truly love us never actually leave our side and Harry taught us that within ourselves, there lays a power greater than any force in the whole world.

Dumb And Dumber (1994)

Today, I present my review on one of the funniest movies ever made. Dumb and Dumber is a classic comedy movie about two good-hearted, but incredibly stupid best friends who drive across the country to return a beautiful woman's lost suitcase. The movie is a classic masterpiece which couldn't have been reproduced. No wonder the sequel which released 20 years later was such a bummer.

Lloyd and Harry are two best friends who are trying to make ends meet and survive in spite of their incredible stupidity. Lloyd, a limo driver encounters a tense and beautiful passenger and instantly falls in love with her. She happens to forget her suitcase at the airport. Lloyd tries to return it to her, but before that, she had boarded the flight. Harry is a dog groomer and care-taker. Both of them happen to get fired that day and return to their one room apartment dismayed. Lloyd wishes that he could have a new life where he mattered and he wasn't a nobody. He decides to go all the way to Aspen to return the lady's briefcase. That being, the two dumb friends go cross country to Aspen, experiencing many adventures during their journey. They encounter criminals and drunk red-neck truck drivers, they cause somebody to die, and they take a wrong turn making them end up in Nebraska instead of Colorado. In the end, they do succeed in returning the suitcase to Mary, regardless of its contents, but the biggest thing they realize is that their friendship is unbreakable no matter how dumb they are.

The most noteworthy scenes of the movie are when the two dumb-asses hand over those so called bottles of beer to the police officer and when they accidentally poison the crook with rat poison after adulterating his burger with hot peppers. I couldn't actually figure out who the dumber one was out of the two, but I think it was Lloyd. Nevertheless, Dumb and Dumber is a great and entertaining watch no matter how many times you have watched it before.

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Scream 2 (1997)

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I hadn't watched a single movie for about 10 days. A pretty long streak for me. I decided to break the streak with a sequel of one of my favorite movies, Scream 2. Scream was a masterpiece, so I did expect substance from Scream 2, though horror movie sequels do not usually exceed the original. I can tell you people, Scream 2 was awesome. Though not as great and exciting as the original Scream, this movie was a good attempt in continuing the Scream franchise.

The movie starts out with a theater scene. Two teens are heading to the local theater to watch the Stab movie, a movie based on the Woodsboro murder book by Gale Weathers. The two teens are suspectedly killed during the screaning of the movie in disturbing ways. After that and the murder of another college student, the town goes into a frenzy with Sidney, Randy and Dewey scared about the fact that history is repeating itself. Dewey and Gale investigate the murders hoping to find the killer while a disturbed Sidney goes into deja-vu mode remembering the past and trying to connect it with the present. As Randy says, all sequels of horror movies have a higher body count and more disturbing murders. Such is the case in this movie too, because it seems that Ghostface is not only killing for revenge or for terror, but is killing for fun (not that he didn't kill for fun in the original).

The plot of the movie is similar to the first part. I could figure out who Ghostface was before his revelation, but the true mastermind of the crimes was a shocker. I would rather not ruin the movie for those who have not watched it already. Anyways, Scream 2, though not as exciting as the original , is a successful attempt in continuing the franchise. Currently saving the next Scream 3 to watch later.

Farewell folks.

The Spy Next Door (2010)

Jackie Chan movies can be a treat sometimes, especially the Hollywood movies. Shanghai Knights, Rush Hour and 80 Days Around the World were great comedies were Jackie Chan was the co-actor to another American actor. The Spy Next Door is another Jackie Chan comedy which is a tad different from those previously mentioned. In this movie, Jackie does not have a co-actor and he has to mess around with three kids. The movie is about a CIA spy juggling the task of taking care of his girlfriend's kids and facing the risks of his undercover spy work.

Bob(Chan) is an undercover Chinese spy who works for the CIA. He plans on marrying his girlfriend Jillian, who is a mother to three children. The children despise Bob terribly and he is determined to change that. He bravely volunteers to take care of Jillian's kids while she is away on an emergency. Knowing that things with the kids wont be easy, Bob tries to be friends with the kids. But the kids aren't willing to accept their weird next door neighbor, Bob, as their mom's boyfriend. Though things are difficult at first, Bob eventually gets the hang of taking care of the kids by utilizing his spying apparatus. While everything is going good, the boy downloads Stockholm GBS mistaking it for a concert recording. The Russian mafia trace the downloaded location to be Bob Ho's house and target Bob and the children. Jillian finds out and takes her kids away from him, though the kids like him want to spend more time with him. While Bob is performing his undercover work, the boy follows him and wishes to join his work. After the final encounter with the retarded mafia is over, the kids persuade Jillian to start a new life with Bob. They get married. The End. The plot may sound a bit boring, but the movie surely isn't.

The best parts are probably when the kid feeds their pet pig bacon and when the Russian mafia shoots the phone and the ridiculous outfits. The accent of the Russian woman is also funny. The stunts though not as good as other Jackie Chan movies are acceptable. Overall, I would rate this movie a 7/10.