Catching Fire Review

I've been waiting for a whole year to be able to say this, but now I can *yay* Catching Fire is amazing!

 

So a few weeks ago, me and my best friends decided we would try and get tickets to see Catching Fire the day it came out. We'd been fan girling for months and counting down the days, so on Thursday the 21st November we rushed to the cinema after school, bought tickets got sweets and popcorn and went in.

 

 

 

One word. Wow. Although it the wasn't as good as the book,( but what film is?) it was a truly superb way to spend my Thursday evening. But I do have to say we did fan girl the whole way through it (sorry to the rest of the cinema). I wont give away what happens to those who haven't yet watched it or read it, although I highly recommend you do so.

 

As most of you know, the film takes place in the 12 district called 'Panem'. It has mostly the same main characters, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and President Snow (a brilliantly malign Donald Sutherland) but we are soon introduced to a few new faces including Finnick (Sam Claflin), Beetee (Jeffrey Wright), and the hilariously outspoken Johanna (Jena Malone).

 

The sequel to the 2012 mega blockbuster, The Hunger Games, picks up right after Katniss ( and Peeta won the 74^th Hunger Games. The two “lovebirds” are on victory tour going from district to district giving speeches.

 

 

 

After Katniss and Peeta’s defiant stance at the end of the games, she’s become a symbol for hope for people in the districts. President Snow (Donald Sutherland) blames Katniss’ victory tour for the uprising occurring in the districts across Panem.

Unable to kill Katniss, President Snow and the new game maker Plutarch (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) decide to make the 75^th Annual Hunger Games a “Quarter Quell”, meaning all the tributes for the game will come from a pool of previous Hunger Games victors.

After Katniss is selected, Peeta volunteers and the two head back to the Captiol to train with Haymich (Woody Harrelson) and Effie (Elizabeth Banks) one more time.

 

 

 

The final 45 minutes of Catching Fire are so entertaining, it’s impossible not to like this movie. It’s got a lot of really imaginative action sequences, some good comedy, a few touching moments, and a cliff-hanger (which I'm really angry about) that’s going to make fans want tickets for Mocking jay right now.

 

I salute you Suzanne Collins.

 

Isabelle xo

 

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Grown Ups 2 Review

So yesterday I went to the cinema with 3 of my best friends Sophie Freya and Tamara. We saw the film Grown Ups 2 which was absolutely hilarious.

 

 In the first Grown Ups, five middle-aged men (James, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider) reunite at the funeral of their old baseball coach, and decide to spend a weekend reconnecting at Lenny Feder's (Sandler) lake house. They all bring along their wives and children. The sequel takes place three years later. All the characters are mostly the same, except for Schneider, who was replaced by the effortlessly funny Nick (Nick Swardson).

 

It’s the last day of school before summer and the childhood buddies from the original Grown Ups movie all now live in the suburban town where they grew up but life is still not perfect in the ‘burbs. Apparently early-retired from Hollywood, Lenny  and his hot wife Roxanne (Salma Hayek) and their kids (including Cameron Boyce from TV’s “Jessie”) find a huge deer in their house and freak.

 

Eric (Kevin James) tries not to discourage his obviously super stooopid young son and flatters his daughter Donna’s ugly, self-designed light-up “go-go” boots while Kurt (Chris Rock) deals with his wife forgetting their anniversary and his toddler son’s poo-filled diaper and Marcus (David Spade) meets Braden (Hunger Games’ Alexander Ludwig) the son he never knew he had; a huge, angry kid who scares him.

 

Lenny’s teen son Greg is crushing on hot Nancy (Halston Sage) but is afraid to ask her out, a nerd asks Charlotte (China Anne McClain) out and Keithie (Cameron Boyce) is bullied by a huge guy on the school bus. The adults deal with their own problems: Eric is spending more time with his nurturing mom than his wife, Roxanne wants another baby and the guys are longing for their more exciting high school days while reuniting with some bad boys from their childhood who are now the town cops (Shaquille O’Neal plays one of them).

 

Frat boys take over the adult guys’ favourite swimming hole in a big stone quarry and their leader (Twilight’s Taylor Lautner) challenges them to jump off a high cliff into the water naked. Of course, they do. Angry that his newly-discovered dad lied to him to keep from spending time with him, Braden trashes the frat house making the guys think Lenny and his pals, including Braden’s dad, did it.

 

In addition to a huge fight between the party-crashing frat boys and everybody else, Lenny’s ‘80’s party includes him finally getting even with the bully who haunted his childhood when the guy decides to bond with him and they “fake” a fight which Lenny fake-wins. The same deer from the first scene attacks Taylor Lautner with disastrous results and Charlotte gets to show off her singing talent while Nancy finally kisses a grateful Greg, Keithie overcomes his bully and Marcus and son buddy up.

 

Way more goes on in the Grown Ups 2 story than I had space to mention but there are more “ewwwww”, gross pottie humour moments in the film than truly funny ones. Sure, you’ll have some laughs and you might escape summer boredom while you identify with some of the young teens enjoying a first beer, first date/kiss and suffering a first bully etc.  

 

 

You might also have fun seeing Twilight hottie Taylor Lautner play a silly, macho frat boy jock who gets to throw some pretty awesome martial arts moves in the movie and show that he can do comedy or you might like hearing like two seconds of China McClain from “A.N.T. Farm” singing.

Definitely going to watch this movie again.

 

Isabelle xo

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