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This is an animated movie starring some of the most popular characters from the Madagascar movies, the penguins-in case you could not t...

This is an animated movie starring some of the most popular characters from the Madagascar movies, the penguins-in case you could not tell from the title of the movie. They also have their own TV series.

The Penguins of Madagascar features bumbling foursome Skipper (Tom McGrath), Kowalski (Chris Miller), Rico (Conrad Vernon), and Private (Christopher Knights) in a frenetically paced plot that involves them being pursued by a vengeful scientist-octopus named Dave (John Malkovich). This eight-legged baddie, as it turns out, is nursing a grudge against our heroes for stealing the spotlight and rendering him redundant at Central Park Zoo back in the day. Now he's invented an elaborate contraption that'll turn every adorable penguin on the planet into a monstrous mutant. Even as Skipper and his friends race across continents trying to evade their obsessed stalker and simultaneously foil his nefarious plans, they're one-upped by an international spy squad, led by wolf leader Classified (Benedict Cumberbatch), who swoop in and take it upon themselves to stop the purple mollusc.

I am happy to say that this was a great movie. I liked it. It's funny, cute, and has a moral at the end. Though I was not expecting much, it was a pretty action packed adventure. They pulled off a full feature with the penguins quite nicely. The Quartet seemed more suitable to short burst in a feature, but the animators were able to extend their slapstick comedy into a full- length picture and add to what the penguins already are without over doing it. There are enough laughs to satisfy the parent that take the kids to the theater. The penguins do some thinks only a penguin or perhaps a Zebra could do while crossing the street. The kids may not get the many play on names but It doesn't matter.

The only thing movie was missing a touch of craziness in sadness (sentiment scenes where Skipper accepts the defeat to NW's)

Coming into "hunger games" universe not knowing anything about it except that it was about kids killing one each another in ar...

Coming into "hunger games" universe not knowing anything about it except that it was about kids killing one each another in arena, I thought that the first movie was so so and rated it "not for me". However, after few disappointing movies in 2014 I decided to give this one a go.

The movie takes place just a short time after the events of "Catching Fire." Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is living in District 13, angry and in despair after losing Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) in Quarter Quell. To add, Gale (Liam Hemsworth) has revealed that District 12 has been destroyed. Only 950 of 10,000 survived the raid and Katniss is asked to be the face of the revolution that is now rising against the Capitol and President Snow (Donald Sutherland). When Peeta is revealed to be alive and being held in the Capitol, Katniss must wage war against Snow, with the rebels, and try desperately to save Peeta.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1 gives a thought provoking, intelligent, and tense emotion to the highly successful Hunger Games franchise. Mockingjay- Part 1 gives you only half the story as the title suggests, giving the movie a sort of unfinished feeling. However, that does not effect the movie from having solid performances, great drama, and amazing tension. The action lacks, but once again, that does not effect the movie from being thought provoking and simply intelligent. It is a very depressing movie but in a weird way it's really good. There are sides to it where you just have to connect it to the "real world". Especially as we are seeing what is going on in Palestine and Syria.

Great acting from the cast; the characters were as believable and entertaining as they were in previous movies, this is pretty much the highlight of the movie. Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss is engaging, as usual, backed up with also great Julianne Moore and the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Donald Sutherland also gives some compelling threat even when his villain character is at the distance. Just wanna say Cressida is my favorite character here.

A moment of respect is featured at the beginning of the credits that pay tribute to the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman who passed away last year whilst filming Mockingjay Part 2.

This movie got a 9,2 rating and my expectation dropped as I watched this movie. In the future, humanity it at the brink of collaps...

This movie got a 9,2 rating and my expectation dropped as I watched this movie.

In the future, humanity it at the brink of collapse as the Earth has been ravaged to a point where weather in cumbersome and farmers are seen as ideal careers. One of them is Cooper (Mathew McConaughey), a former NASA pilot who lives in a dusty home along with his father Donald (John Lithgow) and his two kids Tom and Murph. Murph convinces her father that a gravitational anomaly is occurring in her room. This leads them to an underground facility where former members of NASA including physicist Professor Brand (Michael Caine) have been scooping a newly opened wormhole near Saturn. They tell Cooper that a mission is being planned as the last hope for the future of humanity. The goal is to send astronauts through the wormhole to examine the three Earth-like planets that people could settle on. For his skills years before, Cooper is selected to pilot the mission, but this requires him to be away from his family for years (decades!). He makes the promise to come back, but Murph refuses to hear it and only considers that she may never see her father again.

Matthew McConaughey's drawl was sporadic and seemed unnecessary. His character did not convince me either that he was the guy who is most capable of being spontaneously recruited for an urgent NASA mission (and what if he had refused?), nor that he was the guy who loved his daughter in a unique way that transcended dimensions (or more so than anyone else), nor even as a suitable candidate to return from this odyssey with all its shenanigans through black holes, gyrating space stations and a cracked space helmet (!) We never know his history well enough. Anne Hathaway and the rest of the crew were no more impressive. Michael Caine was convincing, but ultimately confusing, as his confession left more questions asked than answered.

The movie is slow as hell. I always expect and compare this movie with Gravity and I don't know why I don't feel touched or tense like when I watched Gravity. Lots of plot holes and very obvious. Story takes forever before it even gets up into space. I was so bored. I felt like just getting up and leaving so many times but I thought maybe if I stayed it would get better. It didn't. I really hoped that the actors starring in the movie could make it better. They tried but it didn't help. The movie has an alright beginning and the build up of the characters is done pretty well and you get to see Matthew McConaughey do some wonderful acting. However none of the characters were developed enough for you to care for them. The movie jumped around so much from plot to plot that your emotions got shocked when very predictably a character gets killed but then the story moves right along with a nice action scene thrown in to keep you awake. The movie is very hard to understand for common people, just saying.

I'm not saying the movie was ridiculous as it is purely science fiction which I normally enjoy, but this was a challenge for me to stay till the end of the movie.

I recommend everyone to watch this movie, though I don't really expect that everyone would like it.