watched JOURNEY 2: The Mysterious Island
In this follow-up to the 2008 worldwide hit “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” the new 3D family adventure “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” begins when young Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson, reprising his role from the first film) receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist. It’s a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret.
Unable to stop him from going, Sean’s new stepfather, Hank (Dwayne Johnson), joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter (Vanessa Hudgens), they set out to find the island, rescue its lone inhabitant and escape before seismic shockwaves force the island under the sea and bury its treasures forever.
The Screen Play
If you’re expecting some form of terrifying adventure ala Pirates of the Caribbean, this is not really the movie for you, it’s a family oriented movie with Josh Hutcherson reprising his role as Sean from the Journey to the center of the Earth. The extensive use of dramatic camera angles works well for audience who is planning to watch it on IMAX or on 3D but will fall short for those planning to watch it on 2D. I watched it on IMAX and it felt like going through a roller coaster ride. Truly enjoyable.
The Cast
Dwayne Johnson, Sir Michael Caine, Josh Hutcherson, Vanessa Hudgens, Luis Guzmán and Kristin Davis.
The Cast’s Performance
The cast didn’t really do well in this movie, I’ve seen better performance from Dwayne Johnson and Sir Michael Caine, Luis Guzman tried a tad too hard to be the comic of the crew and basically get drowned out by Vanessa Hudgens that didn’t really do much in the movie but to just look cute and be the love interest of Sean.
Mikeyip.com Rating
It’s a family movie, more appealing to children between the age of 10 and 15 than for adults. I doubt young adults would find it interesting too. My kids wants to go watch it again on IMAX though for the 3D extravaganza on a bloody huge screen.
Tagline
Believe the Impossible. Discover the Incredible.
Honda Insight Test Drive
Middle of last week, I received an email asking me if I’d like to take a Honda Hybrid car for a test drive with a group of bloggers to Malacca, and deep within me, I felt something skipped a beat thinking that I get to test drive the CR-Z that was launched in 2011… but lo and behold, that’s not it but the 2010 Honda Insight that made it’s first appearance during the KLIM’2010. I figured, heck, why not? right?
The above video is the highlights of the test drive that the bunch of us was invited to, just 3 blokes sharing their opinion about the car (sorry, no pretty ladies in the video). We started off by meeting up with the Honda team at The Bee in Jaya One where the Management of Honda gave us a short briefing on what to expect and what we will experience over the next two days. After that, we formed a team of 3 and get bundled into 5 Insights that was eagerly waiting for us. The people riding with me for the trip was Isaac and Ken and so, away we go! Just a warning, this is a long long post! (more…)
Getting Over You (Techy & David Wedding Video)
One of the more interesting wedding video I’ve come across over the net is this one done by Jochy Fersobe. Check it out!
Great use of music and planning right? Sure give a lot of people some wild ideas for their own wedding videos. Check out the Bloopers after the jump! (more…)
NyX: New V.S.O.P Hennessy Collector Bottle Launched! + Interesting Facts About Spirits!
The world’s No. 1 selling Cognac recently launched their latest edition offering – the Hennessy Privilege NyX Collector Bottle at Midvalley with an invitation only party held at Vertigo Club at the Gardens. As the antithesis to its elder sibling, the Hennessy V.S.O.P Helios, the birth of Hennessy V.S.O.P NyX was inspired by the Goddess of Night and Dreams, NyX, of Greek Mythology.
The bottle is re-cast in a modern and daring translucent platinum glass with metallic purple inspired by a starry night. Logo etched in luminescent ink adorn the label, collar and cork and are visible only under black light. As I didn’t stay long for the party, I can’t really tell you how the party went and quite a number of the guests that was under my name didn’t stay around long too so they couldn’t feedback to me about the party. So let’s talk about debunking some ‘facts’ about spirits! (more…)
Five Stupid Questions Women ask Men
Motivational Speaker Connie Podesta encourage her audience (the ladies) not to make these mistakes. Why is it that men are better at getting their needs met then women? Maybe because they know how to keep it simple. Connie Podesta, CSP,CPAE explains in this humorous yet poignant clip the five stupid questions women ask men and why.
Visit her website to learn more. ConniePodesta.com