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It has been 11 years since the previous Toy Story movie been released. Is the super long delay worth waiting for?

Pretty much so, yes!

Pixar has established itself as the best film making company in the world because of its top priority – story, story, story! No matter how amazing the film technique, how funny the gags or how sly the characterizations are; the story plot is superbly consummated with satisfaction.

And guess who wrote the story script for Toy Story 3?

Michael Arndt, a newcomer to the Pixar fold who had already made his name with his first screenplay – Little Miss Sunshine.

If you haven’t watched Little Miss Sunshine, go watch that movie as well. I watched it few years ago and the story is great! You could see that the standard comparison between Toy Story 3 and Little Miss Sunshine, it is written in a somewhat similar concept style (not similar story, of course) by the same screenwriter.

Toy Story 3 exceeds its brilliant predecessor (Toy Story 1 & 2) in terms of depth, excitement, humor and just about every other way.

The story manipulates us into responding to real threats faced by these toys, not just to their happiness but their survival journey.

The visuals looked gorgeous as ever, making refined use of 3D to enhance the play while staying right on to the original aesthetic.

In addition to all the familiar faces from Toy Story 1 & 2, many new characters were introduced in this sequel of which some of them played a big role in realizing this movie’s success.

In Toy Story 3, the toys’ fates are to be decided, not in a game, but for real. Grown up Andy is leaving for college and must decide if his toys will be going with him, stashed in the attic, given away or thrown out.

Things became even more interesting when the toys landed at Sunnyside day care centre, which at first glance, looked like paradise. In truth? It has a dark side to it…

And the rest of the story? I won’t spoil it here, go watch it for yourselves

Toy Story 3 is best when it’s being serious. The last 15 minutes of the story was the most intense part; from the moment the toys were dumped at a garbage landfill through the tear-jerking finale and after escaping such a near-death experience (whoops sorry, a bit of a spoiler there already haha)

I bet Toy Story 3 would be a very strong contender against Dreamworks’ How to Train your Dragon movie for the upcoming Oscars award, i kid you not!

Toy Story 3 is scheduled to release in our local cinemas (Malaysia) on 17th June 2010.
It’s a must-watch-movie!

Ratings: 9.5/10
(Note: I might be biased with my ratings because I love Pixar films lol. But heck, the movie was awesome wert!)

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- Special thanks to Advertlets & Telekom Malaysia (TM) for the early movie screening opportunity -

The Human Centipede will make you wonder why you would watch this movie, and wishing that you could ‘un-see’ it or erase the film from your mind after that.

Let me warn you; if you don’t like ‘painful’ movies, stop now.

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Where do you usually go for good quality ice-creams? Put those commercialized ice-creams aside (Baskin Robbins, Haagen-Dazs, New Zealand Natural, blahhh..), it’s time for a change now!

Any of you tried out Gelatomio?

If you haven’t, you SHOULD!

Quality has been the priority in making all these gelato. They are made out of good recipe + high quality ingredients; which means they do not jeopardise it to save cost on the raw ingredients and had always been concerned about catering for different individual’s tastes.

Thanks to Mei Ying for the invitation, some of us were invited for a tasting session @ Gelatomio, Pavilion KL. Of course, this would not have been possible without the man who started Gelatomio in Malaysia, Mr. Massimo Minecci himself!

We managed to try various selection from the lounge, one of them is the Gelatomio On The Rock:

Macadamia & Double Chocolate gelato with Oreos, chocolate crisps & chocolate chips

Strawberry Cheesecake + Blueberry Cheesecake gelato with apple pie fillings, figs & chocolate chunks

And this alcoholic gelato – Rum & Raisins, Orange Cointreau + Crunch & Rum

Check out this video below by Heidi on how Mr. Massimo made the Gelatomio On The Rock:

Gelatomio carries more than 50 various flavour selections and are made 100% from natural ingredients. The milk based ice cream averages on 95% fat-free while the water based ice cream is 99% fat free.

And here’s an interesting fact (copied from Rebecca Saw):

He supplies to approximately 70 major hotels and restaurants in KL which includes Shangri-La, Le Meridien, Pan Pacific, Prince Hotel, Hilton, G Hotel, chinoz and espressamente… You know some of those japanese restaurants in hotels and buffet places? Some of those in-house ice cream  were supplied by him as well!

You should pay them a visit someday, try them out instead of the usual Haagen-Dazs and Baskin Robbins

Gelatomio Lounge
Level 4, Pavilion KL
(in front of Forever 21 / Cotton On)
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) is yet another horror movie remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) by Wes Craven.

ONE

This time the movie is not identical to Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), but they revamped the movie by putting in some familiar scenes from the past ANOES classics.

TWO

The visuals and sounds are somehow menacing; managed to evoke the feeling of dread and fright. However i think it was rather cheap that the frequent ‘jump scares’ was overused in the movie by Freddy Krueger to make it urm… horror-fied? lol.

THREE

It was very easy to predict the story! For example, at the very first scene of the movie when they showed the restaurant, i already know what’s going to happen next! Seriously, and my prediction was right! (and no, i didn’t watch the trailer before the movie)

FOUR

Script written rather poorly. It’s such a waste of time that the writer sacrifices first half hour of the movie laying out the premise: Freddy stalks children in their dreams then when he kills them in their dream, they die in real world. It was rather repetitively boring and i don’t think viewers need the multiple elaborate killing sequences to understand the show or Freddy Krueger himself.

FIVE

There wasn’t an initial focus character as was Heather Langenkamp in the 1984 original film. Nancy should be the main focus character but somehow i think she was overshadowed during the film, only until the second half she started showing up more.

SIX

If you’ve not watched any of the classic Freddy Krueger series before, no worries. This movie is basically combining few parts of different Freddy Krueger chapters into one and you’ll be explained on why Freddy Krueger is Freddy Krueger lol.

In short, if you’re too lazy to read the stuff above…

Rather boring scenes, predictable, messy, not that scary but contains some frightening moments.

Thanks Advertlets for the tickets!