Monday, April 25, 2011

Tangled

Author's note: This is a response to the movie Tangled. As a class we voted on a movie to watch and somehow it won. So, this is my response to the mode that it is. 


Disney has around 50 animated films. That is way too many if you ask me, seeing as most of them are annoying little kid movies. 'Tangled' fits into this category, and as usual was not very good. It was romance mode, quite obviously, and there were tons of symbols. The romantic theme was at times amusing but mostly annoying, because a romance movie is really only good for young children. The movie was just like most Disney animated movie, with a boring and predictable romantic plot.

First of all, the plot, which was very romantic. Starting out with the fact that Repunzel's dream is to leave the tower to watch floating lights on her birthday. That seems like a pretty lame dream, and also the minor conflict at the start. It also was very predictable, when they seemed to be stuck between a rock and a hard place, they would always find some way out. The evil in the story was the evil mom who wanted Repunzel because her hair made her stay young. That is a pretty romantic evil, then add the two big lumbering brutes who were quite comical. The movie as a whole is very unrealistic. Magical hair, floating lanterns, not exactly every day life. And at the end, Repunzel gets married, which is the symbol of life at the end the romantic plot.

Along with the plot, it also came with symbols. There was bright green grass every where, the forests brimming with flowers and life. The sky was blue and there were big white clouds. The night sky was starry. Every where you turned there were romantic symbols. And Repunzel's hair was gold, a romantic color. Almost everything in the movie had some sort of romantic symbolism to it. The movie was obviously romance, the symbols are all there.

The movie was just a usual romance film. The plot follows almost perfectly along with the plotline of the romance mode. The symbols are everywhere, be it grass, sky, animals, whatever. Everything about the story was romantic. It had nothing special to it, and just was meant for kids. So, it was quite boring at times, and extremely predictable. The movie was just any old animated romance movie.
 

Monday, April 11, 2011

Magical Magic Land of Magicness

Author's note: This was a journal entry where another person told us say an adjective starting with d. Then we would have a couple minutes to add to our story and include the word. It got kind of weird, so be warned... 

Felipe and I drive across a bridge into the Unibrow regions of Magical Magic Land of Magicness. We drive up and the city looks to be abandoned. That's because the people there live underground now because of the great flood of '92 and never got around to moving back above ground. Anyways, we drive to the Anteater Train Station and board the train parked on the track of licorice. We drive along and get to out campsite. We unpack our stuff, and go to sleep.

 I had a nightmare where I was sitting on a giant piece of pie and then it blew up. Then, a cantaloupe came and told me to get to the chopper. Then he transformed into Arnold Schwarzenegger and ate me. Inside his stomach, I met a fish named Bill. He said he was swallowed twenty years ago, and there was no way out. I was really sad and started to cry. Then, Arnold Schwarzenegger blew up, and I went flying out of his stomach. Me and Bill the fish went to get to the chopper like the cantaloupe had told us. We rode it but then it crashed into a tree. Then I died, and I was sad.

But then, I woke up, and I was really relieved. I was in Magical Magic Land of Magicness, with my best bud Felipe. Today we were going to Cheeseburger Mountain, I couldn't wait. We had to cross the sea of potato chips, walk through the woods of Popcorn Trees, go through the Pineapple Cave, then climb to the top of Cheeseburger Mountain. At the top was the mythical banana of justice. We started off. We were in a camping site near Soda Lake. Reminds me of Super Mario World 2, but that's beside the point.

We got to the sea of the potato chips. Then Felipe started growing. He became a giant! "Dude! That's awesome!" I yelled up to him.

"I know!" He yelled back down.

See, that's what I like about Magical Magic Land of Migicness, you never know what's going to happen, because it's magic! Then, an evil llama soaked in pickle juice came down from the cotton candy cloud above us. It was the most evil creature in all of Magical Magic Land of Magicness, Bob the Evil Llama Soaked in Pickle Juice, and he's soaked in pickle juice because that's the most evil substance known to man, just FYI.

"Ha Ha Ha, I'll just ruin your fun." He said as he shrunk down Felipe. "HAHAHA!" He yelled as he left.

"Stupid Bob the Evil Llama Soaked in Pickle Juice, he always ruins the fun. We should put a stop to him once and for all!" I was not happy.

To stop him, we needed to dip him in the Cheese Waters of Justice, found under the chocolate waterfall near the Rainbow of Happiness. Sometimes, I feel like our world is somehow really messed up. So we started off, first we needed to rent a Unicorn from Blockbuster so we could fly along rainbow road, a huge network of rainbow highways, and connect to the Rainbow of Happiness. There, we would put our Unicorn in a warp pipe back to Blockbuster, and slide down the Rainbow of Happiness. Then, we would have to float down the river of chocolate on a hungry hungry hippo, and fall down the chocolate water fall and go behind it into the cave of sponges. There, about a mile in, would we find the pool of the Cheese Waters of Justice. So we started on our way.

There was a Blockbuster, but they were sold out of Unicorns. So, we had to rent a Flying Sausage instead, it doesn't get as many miles per gallon as a Unicorn, and its top speed is only 309.4 miles per hour versus 497.6 of a Unicorn. Oh, well, it will do, I guess. So, we flew on rainbow road, and eventually found the Rainbow of Happiness, although our GPS was broke so we took a wrong turn and ended up at the Rainbow of Not Happiness. We turned around and eventually found the Rainbow of Happiness. We tried to put the Flying Sausage in the portal back to Blockbuster, but it wouldn't work so we just ate it. We slid down the Rainbow of Happiness. After a couple minutes, we found a hungry hungry hippo and road it down the river of chocolate, and down the chocolate waterfall. We went behind it, and found the cave of sponges. It was really bouncy. We even saw Spongebob taking a vacation there. We found the Cheese Waters of Justice, and put it in the Goblet of Fire that Felipe had in his backpack. I'm not going to describe how we got to Bob the Evil Llama Soaked In Pickle Juice, because many gummy bears lost their lives, and recounts of the battle may psychologically scar you. But I'll do it anyways, because I can if I say this warning: "Warning, graphic and violent content unsuitable for children. Do not read this section is you are under the age of 34 or squeamish." So here goes:

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See what I mean, a pretty intense and epic battle, huh? Well, so that's how we triumphed over Bob the Evil Llama Soaked in Pickle Juice and his army of 10,000 gummy bears. So, we finally got to go to Cheeseburger Mountain, and found The Magical Banana of Justice. We got to ask it any question. So, we asked it: "We're we good to defeat Bob the Evil Llama Soaked in Pickle Juice?" and it's response was: "No, because that wasn't the real Bob the Evil Llama Soaked in Pickle Juice, it was his not so evil twin brother, named Twin Brother of Bob the Evil Llama Soaked in Pickle Juice and Has an Army Of 10,000 Gummy Bears but Isn't Nearly as Evil as His Brother, Bob the Evil Llama Soaked In Pickle Juice, or T.B.O.B.T.E.L.S.I.P.J.A.H.A.A.O.1.G.B.B.I.N.A.E.A.H.B.,.B.T.E.L.S.I.P.J for short." Darn, we got the wrong guy, and that means he actually wasn't dead, and we had to go back to get the Cheese Waters of Justice back. Hopefully there were no hard feelings, you know, with us destroying his army of 10,000 gummy bears and pouring cheese on his head, but he'll hopefully see it was an honest mistake. You know, I've never seen a name with a number and a comma in it before. Well, anyways, I don't really feel like writing anymore because it gets really complicated and violent and stuff, so I guess I'll just end it here. But that would be kind of lame and stuff, so instead I'll say: To Be Continued…