"Ralph Breaks the Internet" PG
Wreck It Ralph and Penelope Schweets return in this send up to all things good about being online. In the sequel, Ralph accidentally causes Penelope's game to break, so they have to go into the internet, somehow defying how that might work, and get a replacement part for it on EBay. They go about this in no way realistically, but it's a cartoon. They also visit GTA5, called here Slaughter Race, and Ralph gets the creepy when he is rejected, and accidentally unleases a cloning virus that makes a billion of him that turns into a monster he has to stop. Not as cute as the first one. The best gag is not even in the movie, but in the end credits. The flick has moments, and is far better than similar paced Imogi Movie. Clingy boy or girlfriends will not be pleased with this film. Ha.
"Enthiran 2.0" Unrated, probably PG 13
Strange and hyper kinetic sequel to Enthiran, a Bollywood space science fiction film that was basically Bicentennial Man meets I Robot, with a little Terminator, comes from across the world in India. The flick was dubbed into English. It is straight up nod to Transformers, Terminator, buddy sitcoms, and action pictures, and heavily influenced by GI Joe and by James Bond and Jackie Chan. The smart witted robot must Chitti must team up with the professor and his literal femme bot Girl Friday type android to stop a mad attack of cellphone 'bird' ghosts who have possessed the city's cell network, and have transformed their lot into a Karma Bird made of millions of brightly lit phones! It's the Dovetastic movie, if he directed it, which he did not. It was someone else. The phone transformer is killing people, so it turns out that this other professor killed himself, and his spirit was brought back via the birds he had buried after they died, and it's time for revenge on the city. The good professor is then captured and possessed, and then Chitti, badly damaged in the attack, is upgraded to 2.0, spouting references of Indian pop culture while fighting off the mecha bots with an arsonal of weapons, and likely scores of innocent bystanders and hostages being decimated. It was truly the most insane foreign film ever. Not for kids, but teenagers will not have trouble with it. It's even hyper enough to keep you watching for the long running time over over 2 hours.
"The Grinch" PG
Illumination retelling of the famous 1960s cartoon short, and the 2000s Jim Carey flick, is somewhere between the two, not as good as the short, and not as horrid and nightmare bad as the other one. It falls somewhere in the middle. The back story is not really necessary, as the Grinch having been an orphan kind of defeats the purpose of the story. Then the Who's are just a little too trusting of the guy who laters steals their stuff, only to return it after being corndered by Cindy Lu playing like she and her friends are like they're from an old Cartoon Network series, Codename Kids Next Door, and can fight crime, and catch Santa, only to discover he's the Grinch actually, stealing their stuff. Grinch then turns good for some reason and returns their stuff.
"The Mortal Engines" PG 13
In a distant future not dissimilar to the 3000s of Battlefield Earth, after a quantum nuclear war, cities are built up on giant tank treads, having maws to eat smaller cities, and roam around quite rapidly eating each other. Rebel red scarf wearing anime rip off girl breaks into the evil London mecha city and tries to meet up with an inventor archeologist there, but instead is kicked off the city with his assistant, a clueless young man, and they both go on an adventure together. Then they meet up with some flying Airbender/Korra/Winds on Hanonomi rip off characters who had a balloon city, and are chased by a mechanical 'Resurrected Man' who wants the girl's soul because she promised it to him. Turns out she was another archeologist's daughter, and has some past with trhe bearded bad guy of the London city. Bearded guy wants to destroy the Eastern Wall, which seems to be in the Apls or something, except the people there are Asians, on the Europe side of the range, not the other side. Eh? One of them earlier explained the continents were all shattered, but still that doesn't explain how that is possible. Well, the cities roam the Earth on treads, so that's already silly, because if they could do that, why couldn't they just rebuild society? Oh, they forgot. Maybe tghat was just an oversight. It's much easier to construct giant monster cities and ravage the wastelands that actually...rebuild everything. Most of the oddities were added for the film, even a silly nod to the Minions as 'American Gods' at one point. Liked the idea of the rebel lady decreeing at one point, 'Oh no, we're not goin to have the sad story talk now!" Ha. Not a bad flick. Fairly interesting. Most of the actors are not too memorable, but it was fun. Similar feel to Jackson's King Kong movie.
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