Among the comics superheroes, Batman was my least favorite. Why? because for me, Batman is not a superhero. Unlike Superman, Spiderman, The X-Men etc. who were individuals with supernatural powers, batman is just Bruce Wayne, a filthy young rich man turn into his Batman alter ego when someone needs help. And how does he do it? well.. he just fights the bad guys using his famous gadgets for he has NO superhuman powers. That's the reason why, I am not in any manner interested with his life story thus I don't want to watch any Batman movies for that matter - until The Dark Knight.

Honestly speaking, I was supposed to stand by with my dislike of Batman movies but after reading all the fuss The Dark Knight had caused including breaking the record for the highest opening day which was previously held by Spiderman and deceased actor Heath Ledger's much talked about performance, curiosity got the better of me and the next thing I knew, I was lining up to buy tickets to watch The Dark Knight on the big screen and it turns out to be what I don't expect it to be.

The Dark Knight was a blast! It was so damn good that I ended up searching the Internet about each of the characters "life story" so as to better understood them and their role in Batman's life. As to Ledger's portrayal of Batman's arch nemesis - Joker? man.. that guy was so brilliant! He was so frighteningly terrific that you ended loving him instead of well..hate him (?). And I must admit, he really stole the show away from Christian Bale who played Batman/ Bruce Wayne. Heath Ledger was truly talented but sad to say he died last January due to a drug overdose.

Just a little trivia though..

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Now I now know what the fuss is all about. So if you haven't watched the Dark Knight yet, you better go and see it..as in NOW! :)

I first saw its trailer last March and I thought that it was really funny so I couldn't wait for it to be shown here in our local theaters. Unfortunately, when it was finally shown, I didn't have enough money left in my allowance to be able to watch it. Thus, I made a vow to myself that the next time I will receive my allowance I'm going to watch this movie. Luckily, my cousin gave my sister two movie passes so I beg my sister to let me have the other movie pass so I could watch Kung Fu Panda. It turns out that she liked to watch the movie also so the two of us went to Ayala Mall to watch it and LOL! it was a blast!

Kung Fu Panda is the story of Po, a big fat panda, who is the biggest fan of kung fu around. Po works in a noodle restaurant owned by his father (in this case a goose). Unexpectedly, he was "accidentally" chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy of being the Great Dragon Master to bring peace to China and its people. With this, his long time dream of being able to learn kung fu along side the legendary furious five of Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey - under the leadership of Master Shifu would now be at his feet. Unfortunately, the treacherous Tai Lung, a snow tiger, escaped from prison and is now heading to Po's village to seek revenge and it is now up to Po to stop him and protect everyone from this oncoming threat.

Basically, Kung Fu Panda's storyline about an unlikely hero out of not "society-thinks" a hero should be - in this case a "BIG, FAT PANDA" is sort of a cliche (remember shrek?) in which most of us have been familiar with. But, with its funny antics and wisecracks along with its lovable characters and with a stellar voice performance from an all star cast, Kung Fu Panda succeeds in entertaining me.

By the way, apart from enjoying the visual graphics of the movie, I happen to caught some memorable lines from it that I would like to share it here:

"There's no secret ingredient, you just have to believe in yourself"

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present"

"To make something special, you just have to believe it's special"

P.S :

I was quite a surprised when I learned that the movie's theme song was sang by our very own Sam Concepcion. Oh ho ho! way to go Sam! You make the Filipinos Proud.

The line at Ayala Center Cebu ticketing booth was long. Different Faces all recording one meaning--excitement beams at me from the crowd of people hungry to have a ticket of the latest movie this season--Transformers.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think this is Transformer's second opening week in our country but it still is a huge hit base on the crowd of people lining up to get a ticket too see it and base also on the number of people talking about it. I confess, I used to be one of those who doesn't give a damn about this.

I'm not a Transformer's fan---really.I have'nt watched the cartoon series way back my childhood days ergo I didn't know much about the characters -- the Robots. That is why, I'm not that keen enough and super excited to watch it. If it had not been to my boyfriend, I won't watch it and write this review--err sort of. If it had not been to him, we would not be lining up at the ticketing booth. I'm not blaming him for anything though. In fact, I'm thankful that because of him, I found out that Transformers was not that bad after all.

Anyways, Transformers, like what I said was not really my cup of tea, thus in order to be "not-being-left-out" during discussions with my boyfriend, I've read reviews and synopsis of the movie on the web. It's better to have some piece of information on hand than to be a total weirdo na nakatulala lang at walang alam sa mga pinag-uusapan d ba?. Now going back to the reviews that I've read, Transformers has it share of the good ones as well as the negative ones posted by anybody on the net. Wanna know what I think about it?

Now here's the plot, Transformers is all about good robots called the Autobots engaging in war with the bad robots called the Decepticons over a "special cube" that can cause havoc on mankind if it would be in the hands of the bad ones. That cube was found here on Earth ergo humans became entangled in the so called "robot wars".

At first, you may see this movie as pure testosterone having fights left and right to make it more entertaining to watch. Trust me, I thought so too but after watching it, I found out that there are some comedic scenes entwined in the whole movie. I so love the part when the Chevy Car (which became one of the robots by the way) hum out a "Baby Come Back" song whenever the lead guy's apple-of-the-eye walk away. I also love it when the SUPER HUGE Robots try to fit in the lead guy's small house to hide themselves! I have to give credit to the people behind this movie especially the Special Effects Team for doing a job well done in making this movie such an entertaining thing to watch. The Transformer's shape changing from robots-to-vehicles and vice versa keep me in awe. It was perhaps one of the amazing things I've ever seen in the movie world.

Apparently, the movie keeps me hanging. There are some scenes in there that seems like it's lost. Some characters were gone in seconds as the movie nears its end. I wonder where are the new robots that was created by the special cube gone? What about the"defense girl" and the "Black Guy" who both discovered what the so called aliens were after for? What happened to them?

Over all, this movie ROCKS! It's really worth everything--your dime, time and interest. You better check it out and be transform.