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The 43rd Disney animated movie, Treasure Planet

Today, we’ll be talking about our childhood movies and one of the wellknown movies created by Dreamwork. Treasure planet is about a young rebel boy, Jim Hawkins who causes troubles after his dad left him and his mom when he was a kid. He used to read a children book about the legendary pirate, Captain Nathaniel Flint who steals treasures and vanished without a trace but was said his treasure could be found in the hidden planet called treasure planet. He and his mom’s old friend, Dr. Delbert Doppler who was ecstatic to join him on their first journey together to find Treasure Planet and met Captain Amelia who is the captain of the ship they’ll be sailing.

He find out that when he grow older that the treasure planet is real when the dying pirate handed him the map of treasure planet and promised to his mom to get treasures to rebuild their house that was destroyed by a group of pirates which he didn’t know that the new friend he made when he’s going on adventure was a pirate who’s looking for treasure.

He met a suspicious cyborg creature man, Long John Silver or Mr. Silver. Silver surprisingly help Jim through their journey in the ship to do chores and how to sail the ship. Unfortunately, their bond were ruined when Jim find out Silver’s plan to take over the ship to find treasure with his pirate crew who were in disguise with him all along.

Silver knew that he had a soft spot on Jim but denied it to his pirate crew and don’t have a heart to hurt a young kid who he sees him as himself when he was young. It isn’t long before Silver manages to find Jim out, and the pirates finally sabotage the ship and mutiny, forcing Jim, Doppler, and Amelia to abandon deck and accidentally leave the map on board after Morph plays a trick on them.

The Sci-Fi, Steampunk-infused take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1882 novel was years in the making when it hit theaters in 2002, the passion project of co-directors John Musker and Ron Clements.

The trio’s longboat is shot down with a plasma cannon by one of the mutineers, and they crash land onto Treasure Planet during their escape. Amelia is badly injured and needs a place to rest. Whilst exploring the forests of Treasure Planet, Jim meets B.E.N. (Bio-Electrical Navigator), a whimsical robot, driven mad by 100 years of isolation, who claims to have lost much of his memory due to his memory chip being removed. Nevertheless, he provides them with a place to stay where Doppler cares for the wounded captain

However, the maniacal pirates corner the group from outside and Silver attempts to make a deal with Jim for the map, which Jim rejects. Using a secret passage, Jim, Morph, and B.E.N. hijack a longboat to fly back to their shipwhere Scroop is keeping guard - in an attempt to retrieve the map. Unfortunately, after B.E.N. encounters some trouble with the onboard electrics while trying to disable the laser cannons, Scroop becomes aware of the trio’s presence and instantly attacks.

Meanwhile, B.E.N. accidentally disables the artificial gravity system causing them all to go floating upwards into space. Luckily, Jim manages to grab the ship’s mast, whereas Scroop gets horribly tangled in the pirates’ flag. As he tries to free himself, the flag is severed from the mast, and Scroop floats away into space to his doom.

The map is then found, and the group returns to their hideout, only to be captured by Silver and his gang, who have already tied up Doppler and Amelia.

Jim is forced to use the map to lead the pirates to where Flint’s treasure is stored. As it transpires, the map is also a key to a vast portal that can lead to any place in the universe, including the center of Treasure Planet, where the loot is.

While the pirates occupy themselves in hoarding the treasure, Jim finds B.E.N.’s memory circuit in the hand of Captain Flint’s skeleton, and upon getting his memory restored, B.E.N. remembers that Flint had rigged the planet to blow up should anyone come for his treasure. Jim tells the robot to help Delbert and the Captain while he hotwires the late Flint’s ship.

Silver, seeing the planet and the treasure are not far from being blown up, boards the now working, treasure-filled ship to leave with some loot, but Jim stops him at sword point. Before either can react to the other, both Silver and Jim are thrown off balance by a heavy explosion.

Silver manages to grab onto the end of the ship, but Jim is left dangling off the edge of a cliff. Forced to choose between his treasure and his surrogate son, Silver abandons the ship and saves Jim just in time, while Flint’s ship is destroyed by the planet’s self-destruct. The two race back to Captain Amelia’s ship, the Legacy, and attempt to leave the exploding planet.

However, one of the rocket thrusters is badly damaged, and the ship doesn’t have enough power to leave the planet’s atmosphere. Jim, remembering the portal, convinces the crew to turn towards it so he can shift their course to take them back to Montressor that way to still escape the planet’s destruction. A reluctant Amelia instructs Dr. Doppler to follow Jim’s orders and, making a makeshift solar surfer from scrap metal and a spare rocket thruster with Silver’s help, Jim races towards the portal. However, the thruster loses power seconds before he can reach it. In a desperate attempt, Jim scrapes the thrusters against the cliff edge to spark a last bit of energy from it and changes the portal’s destination to the Montressor Spaceport, allowing them to escape back to Montressor just in time. As the crew celebrates his success, Jim finds Silver, who was trying to sneak off the ship to avoid hanging or incarceration for his part in the mutiny.

Although Jim has a chance to blow the whistle on the rogue sailor, he instead allows him safe passage off the ship. In return, Silver gives Jim Morph to look after, with the instruction that Morph keep an eye on Jim for him and reminds him of his potential for greatness. After a quick embrace, the two-part company, but not before Silver throws some of the treasure he salvaged to Jim, so his and his mom’s home, The Benbow can be rebuilt.

Jim returns home to his mother, and sometime later, the Benbow is grandly rebuilt. A party is thrown to celebrate the opening which a lot of customers and family friends attend. Doppler and Amelia are now married and the proud parents of four children (three girls and one boy); B.E.N. has taken up a job in the kitchen, and Jim has joined the Royal Interstellar Academy following a recommendation by Amelia. Breaking away from the dancing for a moment. Jim looks out the window and remembers Silver, confident that the pirate’s words about him were true. An image of Silver in the clouds of the night sky shines down on Jim.

“I think the movie is great to watch when I was a kid but unfortunately, people voted Treasure Planet as one of Disney’s worst failures due to the crowded movie release schedule, lack of marketing, unclear target audience, the departure from the traditional Disney style, a lack of emotional connection, and negative reviews. I still think it’s one of the best movies I’d ever watch a long time ago to this day” the editor of the magazine said.

The Bad Guys Turn Into Good Guys

In Los Angeles, California, in a world of humans and anthropomorphic animals co-existing, The Bad Guys, a gang of notorious, criminal animals led by the cool-headed Mr. Wolf and known for their brazen thefts while eluding the authorities, attempt to steal the Golden Dolphin award from guinea pig philanthropist Professor Rupert Marmalade IV after being insulted by Governor Diane Foxington on-air. During the heist, Wolf inadvertently helps an old woman he intended to pickpocket and is praised for the good deed, leading to Wolf finding himself affected by his wrongdoings and Marmalade’s speech about goodness.

After the gang are exposed and arrested, Wolf then persuades Marmalade to instead attempt to reform them, planning to take advantage of the pretense to try to steal his award again. Marmalade invites the Bad Guys to his home, but his lessons prove a frustrating struggle with them seemingly unable to adapt to the concept of good behavior.

Eventually, Marmalade’s idea of having them go on a rescue mission, “a heist for good,” to save laboratory guinea pigs proves a fiasco from second-in-command Mr. Snake’s temptation with eating guinea pigs. Foxington decides to call off the experiment, but relents when Wolf confesses that he despairs being hated for his species. Foxington admits that she understands and confesses that she has hope for him. Wolf contemplates the matter and finds himself rescuing a cat from a tree, which Marmalade records and releases as a viral video. The resulting publicity turns the public image of the Bad Guys around, as the cynical Snake suspects he is losing touch with his friend.

Based on the kids’ graphic novel series by Aaron Blabey, “The Bad Guys” follows a group of fun-loving criminals who lean into their rap as the villains of the animal kingdom for thrills and profit.

When the Bad Guys execute a new heist at the grand gala, planned in celebration, Wolf cannot bring himself to finish the plan and betray the newfound trust he earned. However, a rare heart-shaped meteor is stolen framing the Bad Guys for its theft. When the gang is arrested once again, Marmalade meets them in private and tauntingly reveals that he stole the meteorite, and was disguised as the old lady Wolf saved earlier, to manipulate the gang into taking the blame.

As the embittered Bad Guys are taken to the SUCM prison, Wolf explains to his gang that he doesn’t want to be a criminal anymore, but a notorious rival criminal, The Crimson Paw, rescues them, revealing herself to be Foxington, a reformed criminal herself.Upon reaching safety, the Bad Guys bitterly abandon Wolf for betraying them, but are aghast when they return to their hideout and find it completely emptied of their loot, as Wolf revealed its location to Foxington as compensation for his crimes. The Bad Guys are despondent enough for Snake to give his last possession to the childish Mr. Shark, making the rest of the Bad Guys realize that they can change their ways and help Wolf, but Snake denies that it represented any change of heart before abandoning them himself.

Meanwhile, Wolf and Foxington break into Marmalade’s home to steal the meteorite, only to be captured by Marmalade, who reveals that Snake has allied with him and brags how he intends to use the meteor’s power to control an army of guinea pigs to rob the city. However, the two are rescued by the remainder of the Bad Guys and take the meteorite in an attempt to stop Marmalade’s plan.In the resulting battle, the Bad Guys managed to stop the robberies but they decide to get Snake back despite his betrayal. During the attempt, Marmalade turns on Snake and the Bad Guys risk their lives to save him, bargaining with Marmalade for his safety.

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After rescuing Snake, the Bad Guys foil Marmalade’s plan and surrenders themselves to the authorities. Marmalade attempts to take credit for recovering the meteorite, but the meteor is revealed to be a disguised lamp planted by a secretly-redeemed Snake, who pulls off the masterstroke of his undercover plan to help Wolf by destroying the actual meteorite, outsmarting a shocked Marmalade.

Marmalade is also framed as the Crimson Paw, completely destroying his reputation, and leading him to be arrested for his crimes.A year later, the Bad Guys are released from prison in light of their good behavior, partnering up with Foxington as they begin their new crime-fighting careers.

“This movie might taught people that some who does bad things in their lives but can redeemed to do good things so they will be forgiven once. It’s a good lesson to watch this movie” the editor of the magazine commented.

A Single Mother Raises Her Two Wolf Children

“Another movie with good storyline people could study about what it’s like to be a single parent. Wolf Children is a remarkably beautiful anime film that was created by Mamoru Hosoda, who is a film director and animator who make good anime movies from the company, Studio Chizu that is successful as Studio Ghibli. People mistaken Wolf Children created from Studio Ghibli because of their similar style and characters” the editor of the magazine said.

College student Hana falls in love with a werewolf and has two half-wolf children with him: a daughter, Yuki, and a year later a son, Ame. Soon after, their father is killed while hunting food for the children. So, Hana have to raise their children to make him happy and watch over them.

Hana’s life as a single mother is difficult; Yuki and Ame constantly switch between their human and wolf forms, and Hana has to hide them from the world. When she is visited by social workers concerned that the children have not had vaccinations, Hana moves the family to the countryside away from prying neighbors. She works hard to repair a dilapidated house and sustain the family on their own crops.

One winter day, Ame almost drowns in a river after trying to hunt a kingfisher, Yuki saves him and Ame becomes more confident. Yuki begs her mother to let her go to school like other children. Hana accepts on the condition that Yuki keeps her wolf nature secret. Though Yuki’s classmates find her strange at first, she soon makes friends. However, Ame is more interested in the forest, and takes lessons from an old fox about survival in the wild. In 4th grade, Yuki’s class receives a new transfer student, Souhei, who realizes something is strange about her. When he pursues her, Yuki transforms into a wolf and inadvertently injures him, leading to a meeting with his mother and teacher. Souhei tells them a wolf attacked him, absolving Yuki of blame, and the two become friends.

Yuki and Ame fight over whether they are human or wolf. Two years later, while Yuki is at school, a storm gathers and Ame disappears into the forest to help his dying fox teacher; Hana goes after him. The other children are picked up from school by their parents, leaving Yuki and Souhei alone. Yuki reveals her secret to him by transforming into a wolf. Souhei tells her he already knows, and promises to keep her secret.

As Hana searches the forest for Ame, she slips and falls unconscious. Ame finds her and carries her to safety. She awakens to see Ame transform into an adult wolf and run into the mountains. She realizes he has found his own path and accepts his goodbye.

In the following year, Yuki leaves home to move into a dorm in junior high school. Ame’s wolf howls can be heard far and wide in the forest. Hana, living alone in the house, reflects that raising her wolf children was like a fairy tale, and feels proud to have raised them well.

An Auto Memory Doll Learn The Meaning Of What Love Is

A young woman, Violet Evergarden who was raised in the military to be weapon with no emotions at the age of 10 to 14 before she met the general, Gilbert Bougainvillea who is 24 years old and taught her everything he can so she can learn to be a human than just a weapon. Unfortunately, during the war, Violet lose her two arms and Gilbert lost his right eye. Gilbert tells her his last three words. The ‘I Love You’ words to her. It was kept in Violet’s mind forever before he died... or at least that’s what she thinks. But even as she helps others express their feelings, she clings to the hope that she may one day get to express her own feelings to the person who has always mattered the most to her. During her travels to help customers to write letters for them, she finally learn what love is from a few experiences from the people she met and was desperate to see her general that she thinks died in the war.

In the future. There was a young girl named Daisy, the granddaughter of Anne Magnolia, stumbles upon the letters sent to her grandmother during her birthdays. She becomes curious about the legend of Violet Evergarden, who is well-known for writing beautiful letters on behalf of her customers and works at CH Postal Company as an auto memory doll. She visited the grave of her guardian, Mrs. Bougainvillea who give her a name when Violet doesn’t have a name in a young age. She runs into Gilbert’s older brother, Dietfried, there. She visited the grave of her guardian, Mrs. Bougainvillea who give her a name when Violet doesn’t have a name in a young age. She runs into Gilbert’s older brother, Dietfried, there. He remains hostile to her and tells her to forget about Gilbert, but she tells him that she can’t do that for as long as she lived.

After Violet returns to the postal company, she receives a phone call from a young boy who wants to hire a Doll. He asks her to go to the hospital where he is staying. She got a request from a terminally ill boy named Yuris to write letters for his family because he doesn’t have much time left soon when he’s gone. A former army lieutenant colonel, Claudia who is a good friend of Gilbert finds a mail with a vague address on it and recognizes the handwriting to be from Gilbert Bougainvillea, whom they thought to be dead. He manages to find its origin from the remote island of Ekarte and decides to bring Violet with him. Upon reaching the island, Claudia finds Gilbert alive yet missing his right eye and arm. Gilbert declines to meet Violet due to his guilt of bringing her misery, thinking that she will be happier without him. Violet tries to meet him but the latter insists on not wanting to see her, causing her to emotionally break down.

A storm prevents Violet and Claudia from leaving the island when they received a telegraph message stating that Yuris’ condition has worsened. Violet has one last task to write a letter for Yuri’s friend Lucas so she asks Iris Cannary to substitute for her. Benedict Blue brings Iris to the hospital, where they find Yuris unable to rise from bed. They decide to let him talk to Lucas via telephone to deliver his final message. After his death, Yuris’ parents take turns in reading the letters he requested from Violet. Violet writes a final letter to Gilbert before she and Claudia leave the island. Touched by her words and the support of his brother Dietfried, Gilbert chases Violet as she boards a ship. He reunites with Violet when she jumps off the ship and tells her about his love for her, promising that he will stay by her side from now on. Violet later resigns from CH Postal Company to live with Gilbert on the island. Back in the present, Daisy visits the island to learn from the locals about their history with Violet and writes a letter to her parents.

“This is one of the anime movies that hits me hard with emotions about the story in this movie about an ex-soldier who worked as an Auto Memory Doll, a ghostwriter for people who cannot write or are looking for help expressing their emotions in letters,” the editor said. “Violet Evergarden tells a beautiful, bitter-sweet tale story in the movie. Violet learn so much from her travels to help people and experiences emotions she never felt for such a long while growing up as a woman and learn one emotion she never felt for Gilbert which is love. The movie shows a very sweet moment when Violet jumps off the ship to stay with the man who teach her everything to be human and loved her for who she is.”

Miles Morales Save the Multiverse

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most. Anyone can wear the mask – it’s how you wear it that makes you a hero.

On Earth-65, Gwen Stacy lives with her father, police captain George, who is unaware that she is Spider-Woman. Years prior, Gwen accidentally caused the death of her best friend Peter Parker while he was rampaging as the Lizard, and police have been hunting her ever since. One night, Gwen encounters a version of the Vulture from an Italian Renaissance-themed alternate universe. Spider-People Miguel O’Hara and Jess Drew arrive using portal-generating watches and help Gwen neutralize the Vulture. George corners Gwen, who then reveals her identity to him; distraught, he attempts to arrest her. Miguel reluctantly grants Gwen membership into the Spider-Society, allowing her to escape with him and Jess.

In Brooklyn on Earth-1610, sixteen months after the Alchemax collider’s destruction, Miles Morales encounters the Spot, an Alchemax scientist whose body was infused with portals after the collider explosion. The Spot blames Miles for causing his condition and reveals that, while testing the collider, he had transported a spider from an alternate dimension that bit Miles; he is the reason Miles became Spider-Man. Spot travels to other universes containing colliders to empower himself further. Gwen travels to Earth-1610 and reconnects with Miles while secretly tracking the Spot.

Miles secretly follows her through a portal to Earth-50101, and they team up with Spider-Men Pavitr Prabhakar and Hobie Brown against the Spot, who absorbs the power of that world’s collider. Spot and Miles share a vision of his future attack that includes Miles’ father Jeff dying. As the collider collapses, Miles saves Police Inspector Singh, the father of Pavitr’s girlfriend, but Pavitr’s dimension begins falling apart from its disrupted “canon event”. Miles is sent to the Society’s headquarters in Nueva York on Earth-928, where hundreds of Spider-People reside in a massive complex.

Miles and Gwen meet with Miguel and encounter Peter B. Parker his infant daughter Mayday. Miguel explains that each of the Spider-People’s stories entail “canon events”, such as the death of someone close to Spider-Man like Uncle Ben or a police captain; straying from these events threatens reality and may cause that universe to collapse.

Miles realizes that the Spot murdering Jeff is a canon event, as Jeff is about to be promoted to police captain. Miguel imprisons him to prevent him from saving Jeff, but Hobie helps Miles break loose. As Miles flees through the complex, Miguel orders the Spider-Society to stop him, resulting in hundreds of Spider-People attempting to capture Miles, though none of them succeed. Miguel corners Miles and tells him that he is an anomaly; Miles was never supposed to become Spider-Man since the spider that bit him came from another universe, which consequently has no Spider-Man due to the spider biting someone else. Miguel also claims that the spider’s dimensional displacement is what caused the death of the Peter Parker of Miles’ universe. Miles escapes and flees to his home dimension. Considering Gwen a liability, a furious Miguel ejects her from the Society and forcibly sends her to Earth-65. Once there, Gwen reconciles with her father, who has resigned from his job as police captain, thus preventing his potential death in a canon event. He gives her a portal watch that Hobie left for her.

To his shock, Miles realizes that he is on Earth-42, the home of the spider that bit him, rather than his own dimension. In this world, his deceased uncle Aaron Davis is alive while his father is dead and Spider-Man does not exist, resulting in the world being riddled with unchecked crime. As the Spider Society searches for Miles, Gwen travels to Earth-1610 and speaks with Miles’ parents, promising to find him and bring him home. Aaron restrains Miles, and it is revealed Earth-42’s Miles has become the Prowler. As the Spot begins his multiversal attack, Gwen assembles a team to find Miles, consisting of Peter B., Mayday, Pavitr, Hobie, Margo,

“I watch Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in 2018, I really enjoy the first one but I like the second the most for making them more spectacular, showcasting and gorgeous cinematography” the editor said. “Creating a lot of spider-people seems to have a lot of work because all of them came from the comics for all different kinds of spider-people with different nationalities but with similar traumas that was canon, which is losing their loved ones. Since this movie is a sequeal and will be working on the threequel for next year, I wonder if Miles will be able to stop The Spots from ruining the multiverse.”

Sing Crew is Back to Perform!

Can-do koala Buster Moon and his all-star cast of animal performers prepare to launch a dazzling stage extravaganza in the glittering entertainment capital of the world. There’s just one hitch -- he has to find and persuade the world’s most reclusive rock star to join them. What begins as Buster’s dream of big-time success soon becomes an emotional reminder of the power of music to heal even the most broken heart. Buster decided to make a plan that he and his crew are going to impress people by making a big performance on the big stage in the city, Redshore City.

Sometime after the events of the first film, Buster Moon is thriving with his newly rebuilt theater; Johnny, Meena, Rosita, Gunter, and Miss Crawly work as his crew while Ash performs as a soloist. They fail to impress Suki Lane, a talent scout dog working at Crystal Entertainment, who tells Buster he would not make it in nearby Redshore City. Encouraged by Nana Noodleman, Buster reunites his crew, and they head off to the city to make an impression.

They are denied entry into Crystal Entertainment but sneak in for an audition with entertainment mogul wolf Jimmy Crystal. As Jimmy is uninterested in Buster’s original show pitch, Gunter suggests a space-themed sci-fi musical that features songs from Clay Calloway, a legendary rock star lion who has not been seen in 15 years after his wife Ruby died. Intrigued and assuming Clay will be a part of the show, Jimmy greenlights it and lets Buster and his friends stay at his hotel during production.

Miss Crawly finds where Clay lives and goes to visit him, but he scares her away with a series of booby traps. During a rehearsal, Rosita develops a fear of heights, prompting Buster to give Rosita’s role to Jimmy’s daughter, Porsha, on his insistence while Rosita is relegated to a minor role. Johnny has been assigned to work with top choreographer monkey Klaus Kickenklober, but his harsh teaching methods leave Johnny unable to learn. Johnny later comes across a street dancer lynx named Nooshy, who agrees to help him out. Meena has been cast in a romantic scene with Darius, an egocentric actor yak. Having never been in love, Meena is unable to get the feelings across during their scene. She later meets and falls in love with an ice cream vendor elephant named Alfonso. Jimmy eventually finds out that Buster never contacted Clay about the show and threatens to harm Buster if he does not deliver.

Ash and Buster visit Clay to convince him to be in the show. He refuses at first, but Ash changes his mind. Back at the theater, Buster asks Porsha to switch roles with Rosita, as Porsha’s acting skills are poor. Porsha misinterprets this as Buster firing her and runs off. An outraged Jimmy nearly drops Buster off his penthouse roof after news of the supposed firing is broadcast on television before locking him in a closet. Suki later frees Buster and warns him to leave Redshore City before Jimmy can kill him.

Ash arrives at the hotel room with the crew and Clay, who advises Buster not to run and hide as he did.

Buster decides to have the cast and crew put on the show that night behind Jimmy’s back after he witnesses Jimmy insulting him and his friends on television. Porsha rejoins the show, Johnny calls his paroled father and his gang to come over and keep Jimmy and his bodyguards at bay, and Rosita calls her husband Norman to let their children distract security.

During the show, a jealous Klaus takes the place of Johnny’s performance partner to undermine his number, but Johnny defeats Klaus with encouragement from Nooshy and the other dancers, finally earning Klaus’ respect. Porsha performs a high energy song and dance number, standing up to her enraged father. Meena visualizes Darius as Alfonso, and successfully performs a romantic duet with him. In a last attempt to stop the show, Jimmy drops Buster off a high catwalk, which forces Rosita to overcome her fear of heights to save Buster from Jimmy. When the time comes for Clay to take the stage, he claims that he is not ready yet. Ash leads the crowd in a rendition of one of Clay’s songs, giving him the courage to perform. After the curtain call, Jimmy tries to take credit for the show only for Suki to have him arrested by the police.

Just as Buster and his friends begin to return home the following morning, Suki stops them and tells them that a theater called The Majestic wants to put on their show. As the cast puts on its first official performance, Buster watches from the VIP section, proud to have succeeded in Redshore City.