This is the second part to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. This is my favorite of the three movies.
It starts right where it left off, Sam and Frodo are climbing a mountain and looking over the landscape they have left to travel to be able to get the ring to it's destination. And then on the other end, Aragon, Legolas, and Gimli are on the trail of the Orcs that have Mary and Pippin.
In the early part of the movie you meet a new cast. In a castle a old king who looks awful and when they bring in his son who is mortally injured it's as if he has no idea what is happening. The kings right hand tell sthe king to send away those that "oppose" him (aka his army). This army then goes to kill off the orcs, you know, the ones that have Mary and Pippin.
When Aragon, Legolas, and Gimli get surrounded by the Riders of Rohan, they are told that they left none alive. Even still they go to check out the battleground. The evidence they first see isn't good and leads them to believe that the hobits are dead, but then they see tracts of the hobits that lead into the forest. In the forest they find an old friend they didn't expect to ever see again, Gandalf. He is the one that tells them that they have to help Theoden, the sick king.
When they get to the king, the only weapon they enter with is Gandalf's staff, which he claims is his walking stick. After the spell is broken, Theoden is then made aware of the army of orcs is coming for his people. Gandalf leaves to find more help because Theoden refuses to ask for aid. They retreat to Helms Deep which is a fortress that has never been breeched.
Well there's a first for everything. The orcs blow up the wall and end up getting in. There are a lot of deaths and it looks as if the battle is over in the worst way, when Aragon is reminded the sun is rising on the fifth day since Gandalf left... They rid out and down the hill comes Gandalf with the Riders of Rohan. Too bad for the Orcs, better luck next time.
On the Frodo and Sam side, they run into an unlikely friend, Golem. He's the one that had the ring before Bilbo and he had it for hundreds of years. He wants the ring back, but then in the battle against himself Smeagol pushes Golem out and wants to help Frodo get to Mordor.
After being captured by an army, lead by Boromir's brother (you remember, the only one of the fellowship that actually died in the last movie). He wants the ring just as his brother did, to use it to make his land stronger. Coruption is taking over him. After Smeagol is captured after Frodo went to get him to protect him for his own safety, Golem returns. They create a nasty plan to get the ring back and all it takes is leading Sam and Frodo to Mordor as they want.
Faramir lets Frodo and his group go at the end of the movie, he was able to do what his brother was not able to do.
This movie is action from beginning to end. There is no introduction and no wrapping up in this movie, which I really like.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
I haven't read this book yet, so my opinon of book to movie hasn't been formed. I do like the way Peter Jackson directs his movies.
It starts with a brief overview; there are a bunch of different kind of rings, they went to elves, dwarves, and man. Then one made a ring to rule all others which started a war. The war ended with the death of Sauron but the ring survived and thus so did Sauron's spirit. The ring would corupt those that held it. It was found by a hobit, Bilbo, in "The Hobit" and now in this movie he is reaching his end with his time with the ring and gives it to his nephew like hobit he took in, Frodo. Frodo has a strong heart, and thus the ring doesn't corupt him the way it would men.
Gandalf, finds that this ring is the ring Sauron had and tells Frodo he must get it far away before they find it. Frodo starts his journey with his gardener and good friend, Sam. While they are getting out of the Shire, Mary and Pippin run into them and join them on their way to the Prancing Pony where they are to meet Gandalf.
When they get to the Prancing Pony (after nearly getting killed), Gandalf isn't there, but there is a ranger there, named Aragon, who actually ends up being a friend, not foe. He is able to help keep them safe. While they are trying to get to Rivendale, Frodo gets stabbed and is dying when an elf comes to help them get to her father. Don't worry he survives.
While there, they create a counsel to figure out who will bring the ring to the fires of Mordor (not exactly safe) Frodo takes up the challenge and is accompanied by Gandalf, Aragon, Legolas (an elf) and Gimli (a dwarf), and of course his other hobit friends. There is one other that goes with them, but he is already corupt by the ring and you can tell he's gonna start trouble, Boromir.
They set off on their journey. They have to go through the mines of moria and find it was not going to be a safe passage. After a battle with some orcs, they run into a firey shadowy monster. Gandalf stops the monster from going any farther to catch the fellowship, but in the process falls off the ledge into the darkness.
After the loss of Gandalf, the group gets some help with some elves. And set off again. This is where Boromir is truely corupt, while Frodo is trying to get away as he was told that the ring would destroy them all and he would lose all of his friends to its corruption, Boromir tries to take the ring from him. Boromir comes to his senses after Frodo uses the ring to escape (makes him invisible). Then the real trouble appears. Orcs come swarming in with orders to kill all of them except the halflings (the hobits) Of course no one knows this. Boromir fights the Orcs trying to protect Mary and Pippin who he got along with well and dies after three arrows pierce him (and he fights even then) but before the leader of the orcs can shoot another arrow, Aragon appears and kills him.
Boromir confesses to Aragon that he tried to take the ring from Frodo and dies a little after. It ends with Frodo and Sam getting onto a boat and sailing towards Mordor alone (Frodo wanted to go alone, but Sam (good old Sam is my favorite character) won't let him). The other two hobits were taken by the orcs so Aragon, Legolas, and Gimli set out to save them...
Pretty good movie. There's a lot of introductory stuff in it, which is needed to understand a lot of it. I do warn you, it's a long movie.
It starts with a brief overview; there are a bunch of different kind of rings, they went to elves, dwarves, and man. Then one made a ring to rule all others which started a war. The war ended with the death of Sauron but the ring survived and thus so did Sauron's spirit. The ring would corupt those that held it. It was found by a hobit, Bilbo, in "The Hobit" and now in this movie he is reaching his end with his time with the ring and gives it to his nephew like hobit he took in, Frodo. Frodo has a strong heart, and thus the ring doesn't corupt him the way it would men.
Gandalf, finds that this ring is the ring Sauron had and tells Frodo he must get it far away before they find it. Frodo starts his journey with his gardener and good friend, Sam. While they are getting out of the Shire, Mary and Pippin run into them and join them on their way to the Prancing Pony where they are to meet Gandalf.
When they get to the Prancing Pony (after nearly getting killed), Gandalf isn't there, but there is a ranger there, named Aragon, who actually ends up being a friend, not foe. He is able to help keep them safe. While they are trying to get to Rivendale, Frodo gets stabbed and is dying when an elf comes to help them get to her father. Don't worry he survives.
While there, they create a counsel to figure out who will bring the ring to the fires of Mordor (not exactly safe) Frodo takes up the challenge and is accompanied by Gandalf, Aragon, Legolas (an elf) and Gimli (a dwarf), and of course his other hobit friends. There is one other that goes with them, but he is already corupt by the ring and you can tell he's gonna start trouble, Boromir.
They set off on their journey. They have to go through the mines of moria and find it was not going to be a safe passage. After a battle with some orcs, they run into a firey shadowy monster. Gandalf stops the monster from going any farther to catch the fellowship, but in the process falls off the ledge into the darkness.
After the loss of Gandalf, the group gets some help with some elves. And set off again. This is where Boromir is truely corupt, while Frodo is trying to get away as he was told that the ring would destroy them all and he would lose all of his friends to its corruption, Boromir tries to take the ring from him. Boromir comes to his senses after Frodo uses the ring to escape (makes him invisible). Then the real trouble appears. Orcs come swarming in with orders to kill all of them except the halflings (the hobits) Of course no one knows this. Boromir fights the Orcs trying to protect Mary and Pippin who he got along with well and dies after three arrows pierce him (and he fights even then) but before the leader of the orcs can shoot another arrow, Aragon appears and kills him.
Boromir confesses to Aragon that he tried to take the ring from Frodo and dies a little after. It ends with Frodo and Sam getting onto a boat and sailing towards Mordor alone (Frodo wanted to go alone, but Sam (good old Sam is my favorite character) won't let him). The other two hobits were taken by the orcs so Aragon, Legolas, and Gimli set out to save them...
Pretty good movie. There's a lot of introductory stuff in it, which is needed to understand a lot of it. I do warn you, it's a long movie.
Show: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
I grew up on shows like "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" and "Sailor Moon" and all those shows. I was more of a tom boy growing up, might have something to do with the fact that my sister wanted to be a princess, and I didn't want to be -anything- like my sister.
That being said, as a kid, I LOVED this show. Going back to watch it now I laughed a lot of it for the lack of technology and lack of acting, but at the time this thing was made, it was pretty good given those factors.
It is about 5 teenagers who are picked to be the Power Rangers (something like a superhero) to protect the earth against the evil forces that Rita would send to take over the world. Through the help of Zordon and Alpha (the ones that gave the powers to the Power Rangers).
You wouldn't think they would be able to do a good job, 5 teenagers against a load of bad guys, but they do, every episode has a different monster and often they are a little stronger then the ones before so that they get new weapons or equipment that helps them defeat the monsters. Or its one of the teenagers having a moment in their life (good or bad) that separates them from the team until they learn the lesson they need too and through this lesson they are able to overcome the monster when none of the others are able to.
After about halfway through the first season a new Power Ranger shows up, Tommy, the Green Ranger. Though when he first appears, Tommy is under Rita's spell and is evil. It's okay though, the other Power Rangers get through to him and tell him he doesn't have to be Rita's pawn. He's actually gets really close with Kimberly, the pink ranger.
A little later in the season (the first season is the longest, but also the best (my opinon)), Tommy has his power coin taken and drained of a lot of it's power. Although they get Tommy back, the damage was already done. He is the green ranger for a little longer before he runs out of power and disappears from the show for a while leaving the five original rangers. Then he comes back as the white ranger. This is where I start to dislike the show. Things are the same until the second season where the red, yellow, and black ranger are replaced with other people because they leave to go to Switzerland.
I didn't really like the three they replaced them with. It kinda lost me in the spirit of things. Tommy was now the leader after becoming the white ranger. Again the system was the same, a different monster each episode and different factors affecting the reason they could or couldn't beat the monster. There is also a differnt bad guy that comes in season two... Lord Zedd. Later in season two, Rita gets free and tricks Zedd into falling in love with her and marrying her so that they can rule the earth together.
Season three, I was reluctant to watch this, and it was a struggle to make it through it, but I made it. Zedd and Rita are still the evil team, but Rita's brother Rito shows up and is now in charge of bringing the monster to earth to face the power rangers. The team doesn't change until well late in the show when Katherine replaces the pink ranger Kimberly. The series is just about over here when Rita's father comes to join the team and he turns back time and makes the power rangers little kids to where they never met Zordon or Alpha and never became the power rangers. This is where the series ends.
Although I thought the first season was good, I didn't like the second season or third season. So I don't recommend those two seasons, but the first season is the longest and the best.
That being said, as a kid, I LOVED this show. Going back to watch it now I laughed a lot of it for the lack of technology and lack of acting, but at the time this thing was made, it was pretty good given those factors.
It is about 5 teenagers who are picked to be the Power Rangers (something like a superhero) to protect the earth against the evil forces that Rita would send to take over the world. Through the help of Zordon and Alpha (the ones that gave the powers to the Power Rangers).
You wouldn't think they would be able to do a good job, 5 teenagers against a load of bad guys, but they do, every episode has a different monster and often they are a little stronger then the ones before so that they get new weapons or equipment that helps them defeat the monsters. Or its one of the teenagers having a moment in their life (good or bad) that separates them from the team until they learn the lesson they need too and through this lesson they are able to overcome the monster when none of the others are able to.
After about halfway through the first season a new Power Ranger shows up, Tommy, the Green Ranger. Though when he first appears, Tommy is under Rita's spell and is evil. It's okay though, the other Power Rangers get through to him and tell him he doesn't have to be Rita's pawn. He's actually gets really close with Kimberly, the pink ranger.
A little later in the season (the first season is the longest, but also the best (my opinon)), Tommy has his power coin taken and drained of a lot of it's power. Although they get Tommy back, the damage was already done. He is the green ranger for a little longer before he runs out of power and disappears from the show for a while leaving the five original rangers. Then he comes back as the white ranger. This is where I start to dislike the show. Things are the same until the second season where the red, yellow, and black ranger are replaced with other people because they leave to go to Switzerland.
I didn't really like the three they replaced them with. It kinda lost me in the spirit of things. Tommy was now the leader after becoming the white ranger. Again the system was the same, a different monster each episode and different factors affecting the reason they could or couldn't beat the monster. There is also a differnt bad guy that comes in season two... Lord Zedd. Later in season two, Rita gets free and tricks Zedd into falling in love with her and marrying her so that they can rule the earth together.
Season three, I was reluctant to watch this, and it was a struggle to make it through it, but I made it. Zedd and Rita are still the evil team, but Rita's brother Rito shows up and is now in charge of bringing the monster to earth to face the power rangers. The team doesn't change until well late in the show when Katherine replaces the pink ranger Kimberly. The series is just about over here when Rita's father comes to join the team and he turns back time and makes the power rangers little kids to where they never met Zordon or Alpha and never became the power rangers. This is where the series ends.
Although I thought the first season was good, I didn't like the second season or third season. So I don't recommend those two seasons, but the first season is the longest and the best.
Movie: Christmas Cupid
Most Christmas movies I find are about losing the Christmas spirit, or being visited by the Christmas spirits... Christmas with the Kranks is one of the few -not- like this. This movie is being visited by the Christmas Spirits.
Caitlin Quinn is a movie star like all movie stars. She likes to party and get a little wild. Well her public relations manager, Sloane Spencer, is doing everything she can to keep Caitlin out of trouble before her big premier of a family movie. Doesn't exactly go the way she plans... Caitlin dies at a party from chocking... odd...
Anyway, Sloane isn't exactly the nicest person in the world and definitely not at Christmas. She has everyone working and really doesn't care what they have planned for the day. Sloane is visited the night Caitlin dies from Caitlin's spirit who tells her that she's gonna have three visits. Sloane brushes it off and takes it as a figment of her grieving imagination...
Caitlin (unlike Marley's Ghost) sticks around with Sloane during this process, while Sloane creates a magical remembrance for Caitlin on Christmas. Caitlin picks spirits that will look like Sloane's boyfriends, ex-boyfriends to be exact.
She relives her past, present, and her future of her love life and forced to understand how love can help her lead a better life.
She meets one of her ex-boyfriends during this time and at this time she is hurt by the guy she was dating so decides to go on a date with Patrick. He was the love of her past and she is the love of his life; the one and only one for him. She hurts him when he finds out the truth and he doesn't want to talk to her. She finds this is the guy of her dreams and wants to be with him.
Is it too late? Time for the Ghost of Christmas Future (yet to come) to come see her, who is her future ex-boyfriend? Is it too late for Caitlin to go to heaven and get her wings?
Caitlin Quinn is a movie star like all movie stars. She likes to party and get a little wild. Well her public relations manager, Sloane Spencer, is doing everything she can to keep Caitlin out of trouble before her big premier of a family movie. Doesn't exactly go the way she plans... Caitlin dies at a party from chocking... odd...
Anyway, Sloane isn't exactly the nicest person in the world and definitely not at Christmas. She has everyone working and really doesn't care what they have planned for the day. Sloane is visited the night Caitlin dies from Caitlin's spirit who tells her that she's gonna have three visits. Sloane brushes it off and takes it as a figment of her grieving imagination...
Caitlin (unlike Marley's Ghost) sticks around with Sloane during this process, while Sloane creates a magical remembrance for Caitlin on Christmas. Caitlin picks spirits that will look like Sloane's boyfriends, ex-boyfriends to be exact.
She relives her past, present, and her future of her love life and forced to understand how love can help her lead a better life.
She meets one of her ex-boyfriends during this time and at this time she is hurt by the guy she was dating so decides to go on a date with Patrick. He was the love of her past and she is the love of his life; the one and only one for him. She hurts him when he finds out the truth and he doesn't want to talk to her. She finds this is the guy of her dreams and wants to be with him.
Is it too late? Time for the Ghost of Christmas Future (yet to come) to come see her, who is her future ex-boyfriend? Is it too late for Caitlin to go to heaven and get her wings?
Movie: Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Live Action)
This is by far my favorite Christmas movie of all times. Jim Carey did a great job on it and I absolutely love it. If I don't watch it at least 10 times every Christmas season, then something is wrong.
I'm sure most know about the Dr. Seuss story, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". The story of a character named the Grinch who hated the who's and their celebration of Christmas, so he devises a plan to destroy Christmas. However it doesn't work and he ends up feeling bad and then returns Christmas and celebrates with the Whos.
This movie follows that basic story, but hollywood boosts it a bit. I actually like the boosts it makes to it, which is actually pretty different for me.
Firstly, do you remember Cindy Lo Who? The Little girl in the book that comes down when the Grinch is shoving the tree up the chimney? Well she's a main character in this movie, and she's a bit older than 2 years old.
She's seeking the meaning of Christmas (Just like the little boy from the Polar Express). For the Whos, Christmas is prepared for year round and is very important to them. Cindy Lou can't figure it out, and she would very much like to.
Cindy sees the Grinch as a person that hates Christmas and she wants to figure out why, after he saves her from a packaging machine in the beginning of the movie. She invites him to christmas events, but in doing so, the mayor makes sure to embarrass him and then the Grinch decides to ruin Christmas. You pretty much know the story from here.
The Grinch dresses up as Santa Claus and steals all the Christmas food, presents, and decorations. When he is done and is back on the mountain, he can hear the Whos singing and doesn't get it at first, then it snaps and his heart grows. Then he finds Cindy on top of the sled and the sled is falling off the mountain, so he saves her.
I'm sure most know about the Dr. Seuss story, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". The story of a character named the Grinch who hated the who's and their celebration of Christmas, so he devises a plan to destroy Christmas. However it doesn't work and he ends up feeling bad and then returns Christmas and celebrates with the Whos.
This movie follows that basic story, but hollywood boosts it a bit. I actually like the boosts it makes to it, which is actually pretty different for me.
Firstly, do you remember Cindy Lo Who? The Little girl in the book that comes down when the Grinch is shoving the tree up the chimney? Well she's a main character in this movie, and she's a bit older than 2 years old.
She's seeking the meaning of Christmas (Just like the little boy from the Polar Express). For the Whos, Christmas is prepared for year round and is very important to them. Cindy Lou can't figure it out, and she would very much like to.
Cindy sees the Grinch as a person that hates Christmas and she wants to figure out why, after he saves her from a packaging machine in the beginning of the movie. She invites him to christmas events, but in doing so, the mayor makes sure to embarrass him and then the Grinch decides to ruin Christmas. You pretty much know the story from here.
The Grinch dresses up as Santa Claus and steals all the Christmas food, presents, and decorations. When he is done and is back on the mountain, he can hear the Whos singing and doesn't get it at first, then it snaps and his heart grows. Then he finds Cindy on top of the sled and the sled is falling off the mountain, so he saves her.
Movie: The Polar Express
I wasn't sure I would like this movie with Tom Hanks doing 20 voices (not really 20, but feels like that), in a kinda cartoon.
It's not the best movie in the world, but it's not the worst Christmas one ever either.
It starts with a narrator (Tom Hanks) telling his story about when he was a boy and he was beginning to fail to know the meaning of Christmas and thus didn't really get why he was celebrating it. His spirit of Christmas was failing.
One night on a Christmas eve, he goes to sleep and wakes soon to the sound of a train very nearby. Now to me, that wouldn't have woken me up, but that's because I'm used to that sound. Maybe not the train sitting at my house waiting for me to look and come out. Confused, he grabs his robe and rips his poket (this is actually pretty important) and gets aboard the Polar Express.
The conductor is also played by Tom Hanks and he is there to punch tickets, he punctures weird letters into the tickets that aren't quite understood yet. There are other children on the train as well. A little African American girl, a nerd, and a shy kid are the other main kids. When tickets are being punched, the little girl is missing her ticket and the conductor takes her away
They go through amazing adventures going to the North Pole. One of which when the boy goes to bring the little girl's ticket to the conductor, as he fears she will be thrown off the train. He climbs on the top of the train to walk across and meets a strange man on top (again, played by Tom Hanks) who talks to him and also gives him a ride to the engine train.
When he gets there and give the conductor the girl's ticket, there is trouble, the train is on ice. Left, right, left, right, forward, to get to the train tracks across the frozen lake.
Eventually they get to the North Pole. When they get there, the four kids kinda get side tracted by a sound they hear. They end up finding the Naughty and Nice room, and the presents room. Through the process of Santa's Workshop they end up in the top of Santa's bag. When they get down, they have to pick who gets the first present of Christmas. Not hard to figure out who it is and he picks a bell on the reindeer, the sound they had heard (that at first he did not) When he believed, he could hear.
When he gets back onto the train, he's already lost the bell, that dang pocket. Anyway, he wakes up on Christmas morning and finds a small present left for him... his bell. The parents can't hear the bell, but he and his sister could hear it, and he says that at some point his sister could no longer hear it, but he never stopped hearing the bell.
It's not the best movie in the world, but it's not the worst Christmas one ever either.
It starts with a narrator (Tom Hanks) telling his story about when he was a boy and he was beginning to fail to know the meaning of Christmas and thus didn't really get why he was celebrating it. His spirit of Christmas was failing.
One night on a Christmas eve, he goes to sleep and wakes soon to the sound of a train very nearby. Now to me, that wouldn't have woken me up, but that's because I'm used to that sound. Maybe not the train sitting at my house waiting for me to look and come out. Confused, he grabs his robe and rips his poket (this is actually pretty important) and gets aboard the Polar Express.
The conductor is also played by Tom Hanks and he is there to punch tickets, he punctures weird letters into the tickets that aren't quite understood yet. There are other children on the train as well. A little African American girl, a nerd, and a shy kid are the other main kids. When tickets are being punched, the little girl is missing her ticket and the conductor takes her away
They go through amazing adventures going to the North Pole. One of which when the boy goes to bring the little girl's ticket to the conductor, as he fears she will be thrown off the train. He climbs on the top of the train to walk across and meets a strange man on top (again, played by Tom Hanks) who talks to him and also gives him a ride to the engine train.
When he gets there and give the conductor the girl's ticket, there is trouble, the train is on ice. Left, right, left, right, forward, to get to the train tracks across the frozen lake.
Eventually they get to the North Pole. When they get there, the four kids kinda get side tracted by a sound they hear. They end up finding the Naughty and Nice room, and the presents room. Through the process of Santa's Workshop they end up in the top of Santa's bag. When they get down, they have to pick who gets the first present of Christmas. Not hard to figure out who it is and he picks a bell on the reindeer, the sound they had heard (that at first he did not) When he believed, he could hear.
When he gets back onto the train, he's already lost the bell, that dang pocket. Anyway, he wakes up on Christmas morning and finds a small present left for him... his bell. The parents can't hear the bell, but he and his sister could hear it, and he says that at some point his sister could no longer hear it, but he never stopped hearing the bell.
Movie: Christmas with the Kranks
Okay this is a worthwhile movie to watch during Christmas. I know many people have one movie they will watch during Christmas time and don't really want to branch out. This movie is worth branching out for.
It starts out with the Kranks dropping their daughter, Clare, off at the airport. She's in the peace corp and going off for Christmas. Well this just leads Luther Krank (Tim Allen) to devise a Christmas plan unlike anything he or his wife, Nora, would have thought of before.... Skipping Christmas and going on a cruise.
Well this is different for the Kranks, they typically are all about Christmas, spending thousands of dollars every year on Christmas alone. It takes a little convincing for Nora to go along with it, and throughout it she seems a little weary of the situation.
Throughout their ditching Christmas scheme, the neighbors are highly disapproving of the Kranks skipping Christmas. It starts with the skipping of Christmas cards, not buying a Christmas tree, not putting up Frosty and other Christmas decorations. This doesn't exactly work for a neighborhood that does Christmas together.
The neighbors can tell something is different and when they find out they are ditching Christmas for a cruise, the neighbors almost harass the Kranks to participate in Christmas.
When it is Christmas Eve, the Kranks are getting the last arrangements together before they go on the cruise when they get a call... it's from Clare, she's coming home and she's bringing her boyfriend. That means that the Kranks have like 12 hours to get Christmas back on schedule. Have you ever tried to get everything you need for Christmas, on Christmas Eve? The store is usally empty, the trees are the crappy ones that cost a ton, the decorations take weeks to get together.
Thanks to the neighbors, the Kranks are able to barely scrap together a great Christmas to impress their daughter's boyfriend. Now there is the problem with two cruise tickets, and no longer being able to go. Luther decides to give it to the neighbors, whose wife is dying of cancer.
So they all end up going from no Christmas to one of the best christmas celebrations they could have ever had.
It starts out with the Kranks dropping their daughter, Clare, off at the airport. She's in the peace corp and going off for Christmas. Well this just leads Luther Krank (Tim Allen) to devise a Christmas plan unlike anything he or his wife, Nora, would have thought of before.... Skipping Christmas and going on a cruise.
Well this is different for the Kranks, they typically are all about Christmas, spending thousands of dollars every year on Christmas alone. It takes a little convincing for Nora to go along with it, and throughout it she seems a little weary of the situation.
Throughout their ditching Christmas scheme, the neighbors are highly disapproving of the Kranks skipping Christmas. It starts with the skipping of Christmas cards, not buying a Christmas tree, not putting up Frosty and other Christmas decorations. This doesn't exactly work for a neighborhood that does Christmas together.
The neighbors can tell something is different and when they find out they are ditching Christmas for a cruise, the neighbors almost harass the Kranks to participate in Christmas.
When it is Christmas Eve, the Kranks are getting the last arrangements together before they go on the cruise when they get a call... it's from Clare, she's coming home and she's bringing her boyfriend. That means that the Kranks have like 12 hours to get Christmas back on schedule. Have you ever tried to get everything you need for Christmas, on Christmas Eve? The store is usally empty, the trees are the crappy ones that cost a ton, the decorations take weeks to get together.
Thanks to the neighbors, the Kranks are able to barely scrap together a great Christmas to impress their daughter's boyfriend. Now there is the problem with two cruise tickets, and no longer being able to go. Luther decides to give it to the neighbors, whose wife is dying of cancer.
So they all end up going from no Christmas to one of the best christmas celebrations they could have ever had.
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