Transformers 3

Story: The energetic comical characters are back, with more actions, blasts and transformation. Micheal Bay always uses a tool as a vital element in the story for earlier ventures, as in CUBE and MATRIX. Same goes for this time, the PILLAR. The director fit in a robotic drama, betrayal and friendship throughout the story and displayed a sense where Transformers were away for so long from Sam Witwicky.

Casting: Almost all the cast from earlier venture was there Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, JohnTurturro, Kevin Dunn and Julie White. The significant replacement was Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as the lead lady as she replaced Megan Fox which played lead in earlier 2 ventures. Rosie played Sam Witwicky's new lady love Carly. As for her casting, the director tried to display her as the Hottest Bomb just to kill the perception that Megan Fox is irreplaceable cast as Sam's lady love. Yet Megan Fox is Unbeatable of course. Shia LaBeouf as usual brought the continuity in Sam Witwicky's character very well. There is no moment that you would think Sam looks different. Josh and Tyrese were more on combat side. While there was this very vital character named Dylan played by Patrick Dempsey. He turn out to be the turning point. John Malkovich to handle a short humour scenes. And not forgetting our Autobots and Decepticons characters, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Megatrone , Shockwave and Sentinel.

Screenplay: No doubts that the screenplay was good and well planned. Micheal Bay tried to patch up whatever weakness he had in Transformers: The Revenge Of The Fallen. Robotic Battle and less dragging scenes instead. The way how Sam's employment interconnected with Decepticons activity were shown in a very well organized manner except for the Jerry Wang scene which was funny but seem to be rushing. And of course, we expect some great transforming scenes before battle and ya we got some creative ones which will make you go WOW!!! Only two tiny spoilers. First one was there was a big question mark on how the Autobots tricked their leave from earth. And second one is there is a long gap between an ignition of some important scenes to the next one at climax. Example, Like Autobots went missing for a long gap after their great homecoming scene when Epps and Sam were struggling to destroy the tower with master PILLAR, or when the PILLAR is activated by Sentinel they didn't come back to that scene for quite a long gap which I think they could have teleported Cybertron to Earth by then. But some how  we would forget about those moments once we see Optimus Prime and Bumblebee Ass Blasting moments. One of the bad ass Decepticon Character was Shockwave and his drilling machine. Optimus Blast it out with his new Jet Pack and ripping off Sentinel.That will be  the highlights of this movie. 

Plus Point: Battle between Transformers, The transforming moments and Cinematography+CG.


Minus Point: Replacement of Megan Fox, Megatrons lack of role and Some lengthy scenes.


Verdict: Transformers 1 is the best of course. but Transformers: Dark of the Moon was better than Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen. Go hangout with friends,colleagues and have a blast.

180 by Jayendra

Story: A Love Spree with a lot of emotion and drama. Didn't emphasize a lot on entertainment. The plot was predictable and there were some elements of Philosophy. Yet this movie wont be a trendsetter for romance as par with movies like Alaipayuthey, Minnale or Vinnaithandi Varuvaya.

Casting: Siddarth had made re-entry in tamil cinema after 7 years. He had made his part well as a happy-go-lucky guy for 1st half of the movie. There were very tiny amount of overacting element at first few scenes. other than that he did very well in expressing his fear, anger and not forgetting his romantic gestures and expressions. The 2 lead lady was very attractive as in Nitya Menen was cute and bubbly while Priya Anand was Hot and Sexy. Nitya Menen had this peculiar voice made her look so cute wen she talk. All her move and the way she looked at Siddarth with love was convincing. But Priya Anand's performance was not as good as she look. She overacted in most of the scenes.Maybe for the suffering part less overacted. One thing that should be appreciated was she dubbed her own voice for herself. Basically these casts solicited love and romance through their Good Looks as in Prince Charming and Lovely Princess projection.

Screenplay: The way romance brought up was cute and sweet as in how Priya Anand gets Siddarth call her, How Nitya Menen asks Siddarth out for Movie, or How Siddarth makes Birthday surprises for Priya Anand. Of course we expect some lip locks for such movie, and yes there were 4 scenes and 1 repetition of 4th scene as Siddarth imagines it back. But don't worry you cant see those four scenes at any cinemas in Malaysia except for the last repetition scene.So that is spoiler. Nitya Menen's character was a turning point of the movie yet her love seems to be brought up in a very meaningless manner. And they fit in a short mother sentiments in between, where they introduce a mother character for a while and they killed that character in a very short time. it doesn't relate THAT much in the story. Most of the scenes were predictable. And ya another spoiler was showing a Devil's Visual throughout the 2nd half of the movie.

Music: Shareth composed for this movie, his last tamil movie was June R. Music can be said as plus point of the movie. Soft symphony with a lot of melody works suits the theme well. Nee Korinaal Naanam song was superb. It was visualize and Choreographed well.

Plus Point: Cinematography was really Good. I can say they used a very High Definition Camera as u can see the details were so clear for instance the water flow, the rain, sunshine and etc. Music was relaxing and suits the situations. A few cute and sweet romantic scenes.

Minus Point: The story line were dragging a lot. You will feel the movie lengthy. Less Humour. 1 of the  Lead lady overacted.

Verdict: Can be watched at Cinema only once for the liveliness of certain scenes.

Avan Avane-Ivan Ivane...

I would like to felicitate my blog by writing review on the latest movie Avan Ivan. I think director Bala had finally came up with a good comedy capper. Superb movie with ample of heart tickling moments. One of the greatest achievement was transforming Vishal into Walter Wanangamudi. One hell of a Character. A National Award awaits Vishal can say. I felt like watching someone else in the movie. His squint eye performance with his expressions and the voice combination will sure make people feel that he had finally proven his acting skill. And not forgetting Arya who as usual took over most part of the comedy. The performance was not so different from his Boss engira Baskaran, yet he made some improvisation on language. He made all laugh with his funny accent or style maybe. And not forgetting GM Kumar a.k.a Highness. an old man with the characteristic of a child. The combination of this 3 people really created a blast. And there are 2 more people who should get credits which are Vishal's mum Ambiga and the woman who played Arya's mum. You can see a typical Estate woman Character in them, with their spontaneous low class dialogues is a another comedy essence for the movie. As for women protagonist, the 2 heroines didnt have that much of scope to perform. Yet their attendance were well played. As for music, I dun think Bala gave that much of importance for it. But still Yuvan's music rocked. And ya not forgetting, Thalaiva(SURIYA) made Cameo in this movie. I like the way Suriya Put it in words on his Agaram Foundation. Avarode scene Short'a irunthalum, Shortage'e ilame pannittaru. He's the best. As for the climax it was typical BALA climax...so it is predictable actually. I can say Avan and Ivan both had enough scope in the plot, there is no tendency toward single character. Funny and small portion of romance,drama and action. A great movie to watch with Kaigels and Family....Enjoy.