Movie: Frozen

This was an absolutely adorable cartoon movie. I didn't think it was the best movie in the world, but it was still pretty good. (I'm hypocritical growing up in the 90's).

It starts off when Elsa and Anna are both little girls (Cute) and Anna tells Elsa she wants to play in the middle of the night! It's not the same play you would think sisters would play. You see, Elsa has this gift where she can create snow! (Awesome, I wish I could do that... ) While they are playing around, Anna is moving too fast for Elsa to keep up and she jumps and in an attempt to save her, Elsa accidentally hits Anna in the head with her powers. Her parents bring her to these stone gnomes to help her. It ends up taking away Anna's memory of her sister's gift.

You watch as the sister's grow up, but Elsa wants nothing to do with Anna, which hurts Anna because she doesn't understand it. Their parents die, and Elsa has the gates closed, no one comes in or out... that is until her coronation.

When Elsa is to become queen, Anna is soooo excited and ends up meeting this prince named Hans (not the most attractive prince Disney has created, but I'll survive). Anyway, Elsa just wants to finish the day, but Anna doesn't want it to end and Hans asks her to marry him... oh yeah, day one... When Anna tells Elsa this, Elsa gets mad and Anna persists on the subject and Elsa loses control and creates a massive snow storm and then runs away... 

Anna feels awful and feels she needs to go after Elsa and get her to stop the snow storm. She leaves Hans in charge while she leaves to find her sister. On the way she needs to get winter clothes, so she goes in a store. While there a guy, Kristoff, comes in looking for some winter equipment and carrots for his moose, Sven (Cutee!). Anyway, Anna figures out she needs a guide up the mountain and needs to figure out where her sister is so she helps Kristoff buy the expensive items from the market and in turn he takes her to her sister. 

Meanwhile, Elsa is making a winter palace, quite literally. She also makes a snowman, he's seriously cute, and he's alive! She has no intentions of going back home, but she also doesn't know that her powers have triggered a serious snowstorm. 

Finally Anna and Kristoff get to Elsa's palace. There Anna tries to tell her sister and accidentally, Elsa hits Anna again with her powers, only this time it's in her heart. Kristoff helps her and nothing seems to be wrong at first. After leaving and going back their home, Kristoff wants Anna to meet his family because they might be able to help. They are the stone gnomes. Anna gets very cold and weak while there and the chief gnome tells Kristoff that only true love's kiss can cure her. So naturally she thinks Hans... yeah the guy she's know for like 8 hours. 

They get back to the palace and guess what, Hans was playing her the whole time, well that's just... rude. Anyway. Olaf, the snowman that Elsa created who met up with Anna and Kristoff earlier in the movie finds Anna and helps her get up so they can get Kristoff who is undoubtedly on his way back to save Anna. 

It's between Kristoff the one who can save her life, or saving Elsa who is in danger from Hans, who captured her earlier in the movie for "killing" her sister. No shocker, she picks her sister and then turns into like a crystal ice. 

Don't worry, Elsa turns her back and figures out how to control her powers. And Happy endings for all!! Whooo 

Documentary: Discovery: Killer Whales

So I thought this was a very interesting documentary. It's only about 45 minutes to an hour long, so there is a lot of information in a little time.

It starts off with this lady who is a biologist who studies Killer Whales. She starts in South America where these Killer Whales come during seal breeding season so they can feed off the small unaware pups. It's a very interesting part where the whale actually goes to the shore to catch a seal pup and then has to get back in the water before it gets suck on the beach. This has to take skill. It takes the whale less than a minute to be able to do this.

Guess what, so Killer Whales aren't actually whales, they are a type of dolphin, and now that you read that, it makes sense to you now. But they are a type of dolphin that.. eats their own kind. Yup, that's right, they actually will kill dolphins and eat them. In South Africa, there is a large swarm of fish that come each year that bring a ton of different species of animals, and one of them is Dolphins that are in huge pods of 100+. Divide and Conquer. That's how the killer whales do it. They use high intelligence to get this cousin that is faster to wear out until they can simply knock it down.

Communication, different pods of killer whales use a different language. It's actually just like humans do. People in Asia don't use the same language as Europe and so on and so forth. Killer Whales don't either. Through this the elders are able to pass their knowledge down to their family members. Killer whale pods stay together for a lifetime.

Sharks or Killer Whales, which is the prime predator? Well if you think about it, whales are in pods, sharks are solitary... ding ding ding, bummer for the sharks. Flip a shark over and it gets paralyzed, and the killer whales figured this out and has passed it down to their family in California.

So in the end they go to New Zealand where the lady biologist is from, and when the killer whales come up to the boat, she knows them and it's as if they recognize and know her. It's quite amazing, but I guess just as a pet knows it's owner because of often interaction, the same could work with these killer whales. In New Zealand these whales like sting rays. Yeah, that's something I would want to do, get near a tail that is poisonous and very sharp... yeah, good luck. And, that's exactly what the killer whales go after! The tail... They do it quite efficiently, though.

This documentary shows that intelligence these sea mammals have. It's quite amazing to realize this.

Movie: Red Dawn

I'm a huge fan of Chris Hemsworth, so knowing he was in this might have influenced me to go and see it. And no it's not just because I think he looks good... he has a great accent too... Lol! (Kidding, he's a good actor too!)

I've never seen the original Red Dawn, but from what I heard, this one wasn't too far off, minus how it ended. Maybe people didn't like the way the original ended? Lol

It starts out with Matt (Josh Peck) playing a football game and his dad and family are there, his brother Jed (Chris Hemsworth) shows up. After the game they go to the bar where they power goes out, but no one really thinks too much about it.

Jed and Matt clearly have some issues to work out by the way Matt reacts to Jed being home. In the morning they wake up to their house shaking and Koreans falling on them (Damn, I thought it was going to be Canadians [Kidding, again]) So Jed (being a marine) decides to get his brother to his father. When they find him, he tells them to go to this cabin.

At the cabin they have some complications with one of the guys, who tells the Koreans where they are all staying and leads the Koreans there. Don't worry they don't get caught, but this is where someone dies, but this death leads them to create the Wolverine team.

After some training the people who went with Jed and Matt are now ready to be a team and work to free their city. Matt, however, is hurt from the loss of his girlfriend who was taken early in the movie. His every thought is about her.

There is a plan they they create to get rid of the guy now controling their city, Matt see's his girlfriend and this ruins part of their plan and it gets someone killed in the process. He does save his girlfriend, but when they get back to their site, it's a bitter sweet moment and Matt 'runs off' to collect himself for a few days.

When he gets back, they get back to work, but the Koreans figure out where they are staying and bomb their hideout, which leads to a grave for some. Afterwards they meet up with three older marines looking for something the Koreans have, so they make a plan to get it.

They go to the police station, which is where the Koreans are staying and they get the package back, don't think this is the end... it's not! Any of you who saw the original know there are still plenty of figures who have not met their fate yet.

They end up getting a tracking device in one of their guys which leads the Koreans to them, well I'm sure you get the picture. Their guy who gets the tracking device in him decides to stay behind to stop them from tracking them anymore. It ends with Matt recruiting others to their cause to free America

Overall, I thought it was a great movie, although I was 'angry' about a certain event. It was still a good movie. I give it a 4 out of 5 stars

Clip: Lambert the Sheepish Lion

So Lambert ends up getting "delivered" to a flock of sheep by Mr. Stork who thought Lambert meant lamb. Right when Mr. Stark arrived, the mothers of the flock were gifted with their own baby lambs

All except one mother sheep who was upset. When Mr. Stork delivered Lambert, Lambert went right to this mother sheep. Mr. Stork tried to take lambert away, but mama sheep got mad and chased Mr. Stork away.

At first poor Lambert is teased by the other lambs. He's a big softie and the other lambs tease him for it

One day a wolf finds the flock and chases the mama sheep up on a cliff. She cried for Lambert to save her and at first he cowers and then it snaps and he goes to save his mama, chasing the wolf off the cliff.

So now the other lambs view Lambert differently and accept him in their group.

Clip: The Ugly Duckling

We all know the story. I still find this one to be one of the better ones.

Starts out with a mother duch hatching her ducklings but one seems off and ends up making the father duck leave the mother duck. Which leads the mother duck to shun the "ugly duckling." So the "ugly duckling" goes off looking for its real family. (This reminds me of the P.D. Eastman book Are You My Mother)

First a mother bird:

Then a wooden duck

Then finally a swam mother who he thinks will shun him, but doesn't and thus... happy ending

Video Clip: The Wise Little Hen

This wasn't a bad little Disney clip.

So this mother hen needs help to plant her corn at first, so she and her chicks go to Peter Pig and Donald Duck to ask if they will help. The two make up excuses so they can't plant corn and work with the mother hen. So the hen plants the corn herself with her chicks.

So now the hen needs help to harvest her corn and again she goes to Peter Pig and Donald Duck and again they make excuses so they don't have to. This time the hen catches them laughing about it before she goes to harvest her corn.

Now comes time to eat the corn and so when she goes over to Peter Pig and Donald Duck she brings them medicine for their stomach aches.

So Peter Pig and Donald Duck punish each other for being bad friends.

Book: The Red Pyramid

So this was an interesting book. Rick Riordan wrote the Percy Jackson series, I absolutely LOVED this series. It's about the greek gods having demi-god kids, but the way it was written was great.

This book is about two kids that have the bloodlines of Egyptian pharohs and end up hosting Isis and Horus, two Egyptian gods.

Carter and Sadie are siblings separated when their mother died. They got to see each other rarely, as Sadie lives with her grandparents and Carter travels the world with his dad. This time when they get to see each other, their dad brings them to a European museam and breaks an egyptian artifact that housed the big 5 gods.

This is how Carter and Sadie became hosts of Isis and Horus. Osiris went into their father and Set imprisons him. So Carter and Sadie meet their uncle Amos that tells them who that are, he ends up getting captured by Set. The House of Life helps them at first, although they do not approve of Egyptian gods, so they don't approve of Carter and Sie and they end up running from the House and Set.

They get some helt from their gods they are hosting and other gods and get into a lot of missions they have to complete so they can reach Set and free their dad

Horus/Carter ends up fighting Set, and Isis/Sadie end up helping by discovering the real secret, Chaos is trying to take over and the House and the gods have to work together. Orisis is the god of the dead so when they get rid of Set they don't exactly get rhtir father back.

I think the thing I didn't like about the book was the way it was written. Carter would narrate 2 chapters and  then Sadie would do 2 and it would bounce between them.