Sunny (Aaron Kwok) is a clown in a circus act but he aspires to be a top performer just like his dad, The King of Flying Knife. While in Malaysia, Sunny and a few of his circus performer friends go for a treasure hunt, stumbling upon barrels of bio-chemicals left from the war. Upon returning, some of the members are mutating due to inhaling the bio-chemicals but Sunny seems fine from the exposure. They gain extraordinary superhuman powers. The leader of the entertainment outfit Chang Tai Chu (Colin Chou) decides to use this newfound strength to do evil. As there is an increase of crime in the city, the media and the police get involved. Kungfu master Suan Hou (Wu Jing) and policewoman Xin Hua (Zhang Jin Chu) enter the fray, while Angel (Shu Qi), a reporter who is recently demoted, also pursues the case in hopes of rescuing her flagging career.

Recommendation: 2.5/5

Nothing fantastic. I’m like watching Fantasy 4/ X men in Chinese version. Aaron Kwok made this silly movie rather enjoyable with his performance. I saw Zhang Jingchu again. The 1st time was in 唐山大地震. Well, she acts well. Beautiful as well.
As for the male cast, Aaron Kwok. He doesn’t seem like he aged. -_-” I liked him when I was 12 and well, now I’m *ahem*, he still looks the same. FML.

This was how he looked like when I was 12.

This is how he looks like now.

No deny, he still looks good & “delicious”.

If you love Aaron Kwok, do go and watch him.

Well, he brought me back to when I was 12.

In 1976 Tangshan, Yuan Ni lives in a small apartment with her husband and their twins Fang Deng and Fang Da. Yuan Ni expresses to her husband her desire to have one more child, and they get into the back of their truck after putting their son and daughter to bed. Suddenly the ground shakes, and buildings begin tumbling down. Running back to save their kids, Yuan Ni is pulled back by her husband, who runs ahead of her and is instantly crushed. Their house falls down, trapping her two kids.

In the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, a rescue team informs Yuan Ni that her twins Da and Deng are trapped together under a slab of concrete. Lifting the slab in any way will kill one of her children – lifting it one way will save the daughter at the expense of her son; lifting it the other will save the son at the expense of her daughter. Heartbroken, she is forced to choose between her children, and finally decides to save the boy. Her decision, however, is overheard by her daughter, who tearfully whispers “Ma…” as the screen goes black. The mother clings to her daughter’s body before being pulled away to take care of Da, “her one child who still lives.” Later, in the midst of the rains following the earthquake, Deng wakes up in a sea of bodies, next to the body of her deceased father.

Assumed to be an orphan by the soldiers who found her wandering, Deng is adopted by a military couple. She refuses to speak, and claims not to have remembered anything before the earthquake. She eventually opens up and bonds with her adopted parents. Ten years later, Deng is accepted into medical school and moves away, where she meets a graduate student and begins an intimate relationship with him. In her third year of study, Deng’s adopted mother falls ill. Before dying, she asks Deng to use the money they saved up for her to find Deng’s real family. Deng doesn’t respond. After getting back from the hospital, Deng finds out she is pregnant, and despite being pressured by her boyfriend to get an abortion, she refuses to abandon her baby the way her mother abandoned her. She secretly drops out of university and loses contact with her boyfriend and her adopted father.

During that period of time, Da grows up with his mother, who is still torn from the decision she had to make. The earthquake claimed Da’s left arm, leaving him physically disabled. Rather than sit his university entrance exams, Da opts to make it on his own by transporting people with his bike. He leaves his mother in Tangshan and eventually becomes the boss of a successful travel agency. He marries and has a son, named Dian Dian.

After a 4 year absence, Deng goes back to see her adopted father with her daughter, also named Dian Dian. She apologises and makes up with her father, finally admitting that she remembers everything that happened during the earthquake. She tells him about her mother’s decision, and says that she will never forget how she was abandoned. On New Years Eve, Deng tells her adopted father that she is getting married to a foreigner.

In 2008, Deng sees the earthquake in Sichuan on TV. She immediately volunteers to join rescuers in the wake of the Sichuan earthquake and returns to China. Through the experience, she finds forgiveness for her family, and reunites with her mother and twin brother after 32 years.

Recommendation: 4.5/5
It was a masterfully crafted story of a mother’s love torn between saving only one of her twin son or daughter, trapped under the same pillar during the devastating earthquake of Tangshan in 1976. She chose to save her son, and she tearfully hugged her daughter that she thought was already dead in an emotional farewell before leaving with her son for a safe shelter. The repercussion of that fateful decision had a profound emotional effect on the mother and her siblings. Unable to overcome the guilty conscience of her decision, the remorseful mother lived a life of self-imposed solitude in a small house in Tangshan, afraid to move out because she thought her daughter’s soul may not find her again. Meanwhile, her daughter, given up for dead and lying beside her dead father, woke up from her unconscious coma state, and was adopted by a kind couple from the army. Visibly upset, angry and bitter, she grew up without any intention of ever looking for her mother again. Many years later in 2008, the Sichuan earthquake produced another tragedy on a massive scale. Brother and sister were there as volunteers. There, at a rest point, she heard a man recounting his mother’s anguish about having to choose between saving either son or daughter in the Tangshan earthquake. It was then that she realized that her mother felt equally painful about losing her than she was bitter about being given up in favour of her brother. The act of reconciliation and forgiveness between mother and daughter came at the end in a highly charged emotional scene. Tears flowed from my eyes. It is this kind of act of forgiveness that touches hearts everywhere.

Salt is a 2010 American action-thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer and Brian Helgeland, and starring Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, who is accused of being a KGB sleeper agent, and goes on the run to try to clear her name. While Tom Cruise was initially secured for the lead, the script was ultimately rewritten for Jolie.

Filming took place on location in Washington, DC; New York City; and Albany, NY between March and June 2009. Jolie was taken to the hospital after suffering a head injury on set but was released the same day where filming resumed. The film had a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 22 and was released in North America on July 23, 2010; it will be released on August 20, 2010, in the United Kingdom.

Evelyn Salt interrogates a Russian defector, Orlov, who tells her about “Day X”, an operation organized by a powerful Russian since the Cold War, which will lead to the destruction of the United States. Orlov also mentions that at the funeral of the late Vice President in New York City, the visiting Russian President will be killed by a trained Russian spy named Evelyn Salt. Salt, who is shaken up at the accusation, attempts to contact her husband Mike, a German arachnologist, fearing that he will be in danger. Meanwhile, Orlov escapes, prompting Salt to escape herself—causing the CIA to think she is a spy. She flees back to her apartment and finds her husband missing. Salt resumes and grabs essentials as well as a venomous spider. After barely escaping a frantic highway pursuit, Salt takes a bus to New York City. The next morning, she sneaks into the heavily guarded St. Bartholomew’s Church where the Vice President’s funeral is being held and shoots the Russian President. She then encounters Peabody where she surrenders but escapes the NYPD.

A series of flashbacks show Salt growing up in the Soviet Union where Orlov taught her and many other children to obey him and ingratiate themselves into the American government. Then, when it came to Day X, he would command them to strike from various positions in the US. Salt meets Orlov who congratulates her on her killing. He brings her to a river barge, where he tests her allegiance by having another agent kill Mike right in front of her. Salt appears to be unaffected by this, thus passing Orlov’s test. He then tells her Part Two of Day X, which would involve seizing the United States’ stock of nuclear weapons. Salt, who had gone to Orlov only to discover his plans, kills Orlov and everyone else on the barge. She then goes to the rendezvous set up by Orlov to meet a NATO mole.

The NATO mole and a disguised Salt go to the White House. Once inside, her NATO counterpart suddenly starts shooting at Secret Service agents and detonates a bomb. The Secret Service, along with Winter, rush the President to the lower bunker of the White House. Meanwhile, the President, believing Russia is preparing a nuclear strike against the US, begins to transmit the launch codes from the nuclear football. Salt infiltrates the bunker and dispatches the bodyguards. Winter picks up a gun and kills everyone but the President, whom he knocks unconscious.

He explains to an astonished Salt that he was part of Orlov’s plan all along. Winter then uses the nuclear football to start the sequence for launching nuclear missiles at Tehran and Mecca. Salt asks Winter to let her in but before he opens the door, a playing news program reveals that the Russian President is not dead, but only placed in a near-death state from spider venom. He realizes that Salt is not on his side but she manages to break in, and after an intense struggle, she succeeds in knocking him down. Just after she manages to abort the nuclear missile launch set up by Winter, agents break in and arrest her. Winter goes free, but later Salt uses her chains to strangle him.

Salt is put on a helicopter with Peabody, and explains everything to him. A skeptical Peabody finally accepts she is telling the truth after he receives an SMS saying that her fingerprints were found at the barge, confirming her betrayal to Orlov. They both know that there are other moles out there, and Peabody agrees to let her escape, so she can find and kill them. He uncuffs her and Salt jumps into the river below, free once more.

Recommendation: 3.5/5. An ordinary movie with lots of action. & well, Angelina Jolie is CHIO!

Inception is a 2010 American science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, and Cillian Murphy. The film is inspired by the experience of lucid dreaming.^[5] The film, a variant on the heist genre, centers on Dom Cobb, an “extractor”, who enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible.^[6] His abilities and questions about the death of his wife have cost him his family and his nationality, but he is promised a chance to regain his old life in exchange for planting an idea in a corporate target’s mind.^[7] This process of planting an idea, known as “inception”, is less familiar and far more difficult than Cobb’s usual job of “extraction”.^[7]

Development of Inception began roughly ten years before the film’s actual release when Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about dream-stealers.^[8] After presenting the idea to Warner Bros. in 2001, he felt that he needed to have more experience with large scale films.^[9] Therefore, Nolan opted to work on Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. He spent six months polishing up the film’s script before Warner Bros. purchased it in February 2009.^[9][10] Filming began in Tokyo on June 19, 2009 and finished in Canada in late November of the same year.^[11][12]

Inception was officially budgeted at $160 million, a cost which was split between Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures.^[3] Nolan’s reputation and success with The Dark Knight helped secure the film $100 million in advertising expenditure.^[3] Inception premiered in London on July 13, 2010 and was released in both conventional and IMAX theatres on July 16, 2010.^[13][14] The film grossed over $21 million on its opening day, with an opening weekend gross of $62.7 million.^[4] The film received very positive reviews with an average of 87% on Rotten Tomatoes .^[15]

Dominic Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) washes up on a beach and is brought by guards into the chamber of an elderly man. The scene then cuts to a dream in the mind of Saito (Ken Watanabe) where Cobb, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and dream world architect Nash (Lukas Haas) are on an extraction mission, in which an individual’s mind is infiltrated through dreams and information is stolen. Extractors and their victims sleep in close proximity to one another, connected by a device that administers a sedative and share a dream world built on their mental projections. In the dream world, pain is psychologically experienced as real but death results in awakening. Cobb carries a spinning top called a “totem” which either spins unceasingly or topples, to determine whether he is dreaming or awake, respectively. Saito reveals that he is in fact auditioning the team to work for him and the mission is aborted. He takes Nash away and asks Cobb to perform the act of “inception”; using dreams to secretly implant an idea. Realizing the extraction mission failure and the consequence of being eliminated by their employer, a mysterious firm called Cobol Engineering, they accept Saito’s arrangement.

The target is Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy), son of Saito’s terminally ill corporate rival Maurice Fischer (Pete Postlethwaite). The objective is to convince Fischer to break up his father’s empire, preventing it from threatening Saito’s. Cobb recruits Eames (Tom Hardy), a forger who can manipulate his appearance inside dreams; Yusuf (Dileep Rao), a chemist who develops sedatives; and student Ariadne (Ellen Page) whom he and Arthur train as their new architect. Along the way, Cobb barely escapes Cobol agents out to kill him. Due to the plan involving powerful sedatives and creating multiple dreams within each other, death will not awaken a dreamer but instead send them into a limbo dream world where the mind will be stuck for an indeterminable amount of time. In Cobb’s mind, Ariadne discovers that a vision of his deceased wife Mal (Marion Cotillard) continually haunts him, sabotaging his missions. Cobb reveals to Ariadne that he and Mal spent many years in a limbo forging their lives. After waking, Mal remained convinced that she was still in a dream and committed suicide in order to be awoken from the supposed dream. She attempts to force Cobb to join her in suicide by incriminating him in her death. Cobb refused and was forced to flee the U.S. and leave his children to avoid murder charges. In return for completing the mission, Saito promises to clear the charges and reunite Cobb with his children.

When the elder Fischer dies in Sydney, Saito and Cobb’s team share the flight with Robert Fischer back to Los Angeles and drug him. They force him to enter into Yusef’s dream, a rainy downtown area, and kidnap him. The team comes under attack by Fischer’s trained subconscious projections and Saito is badly injured. Eames takes the form of Peter Browning (Tom Berenger), Fischer’s godfather, to try and suggest ideas to Fischer. The team then enters a van and sleep into the next dream level, a hotel where the team tricks Fischer into believing that the kidnapping on the first level was orchestrated by Browning. Cobb convinces Fischer to enter Browning’s subconscious in order to find out his motives, but in fact the team enter deeper into Fischer’s subconscious. The third level is a snowy mountain fortress, which Fischer must break into to reveal the planted idea. Fischer is killed by Mal, causing him to go into limbo. Ariadne and Cobb follow Fischer to this fourth level in an attempt to salvage the mission and confront Mal. Mal attempts to convince Cobb to stay in limbo by making him question his reality as he was chased by agents that could have been projections. Cobb reveals that he planted the idea in Mal’s mind to wake, making him indirectly responsible for her suicide. She attacks him, but Ariadne shoots her. Fischer and Ariadne are able to return to the mountain fortress, where he reaches the intended understanding that his father had wanted him to be his own man.

A team member is left behind on each dream level: Yusuf driving the van, Arthur in the hotel, and Eames and Saito in the fortress, to protect those in the next level and fight off Fischer’s forces from attacking the bodies. Ultimately they are running out of time, since at each level, timed “kicks” to help them return to reality are imminent: explosives in the mountain fortress, the hotel elevator carrying the bodies hitting its shaft, and the crashing of the van into a river. A wounded Saito dies at the snow fortress and Cobb remains in limbo to locate him. Returning to the first scene in which Cobb locates an aged Saito, he tells him to escape back to reality. Cobb suddenly awakens to find everyone on the plane, including Saito, up and well. Saito honors their arrangement and Cobb enters the United States, reunited with his children at home. Cobb spins the top to test reality, but is distracted by the reunion. The top begins to wobble, but the scene cuts to black which leaves the question of whether Cobb is awake or still dreaming.

Recommendation: 5/5 I may watch again! Well, I wish Inception really occurs. But of cos, I was a good dream. =X

Despicable Me is a 2010 American computer-animated 3-D feature film from Universal Studios and Illumination Entertainment that was released on July 9, 2010 in the US. The film stars Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, and Miranda Cosgrove.

In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences and flowering rose bushes sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden deep beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by an army of mischievous little minions, we discover Gru (Steve Carell) planning the biggest heist in the history of the world: he is going to steal the Moon.

Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. That is, until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential dad.

One of the world’s greatest super-villains has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier), and Agnes (Elsie Fisher).

Recommendation: 4.5/5

Funniest movie I have seen in a long time. It’s great for kids and adults it has such a great humor that everyone laughed. Watched it in 3D. It was excellent. But I still have no idea what are the yellow fellows were? I do like Agnes lots. She is really cute.

& well, watch the trailer.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is a 2010 American romantic-vampire film based on Stephenie Meyer’s 2007 novel, Eclipse. It is the third installment of The Twilight Saga film series, following 2008’s Twilight and 2009’s New Moon. Summit Entertainment greenlit the film in February 2009.^[5] Directed by David Slade, the film stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, reprising their roles as Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and Jacob Black, respectively.^[6] Melissa Rosenberg, who penned the scripts for both Twilight and New Moon, returns as screenwriter.^[7] Filming began on August 17, 2009, at Vancouver Film Studios,^[8] and finished in late October, with post-production began early the following month.^[9] Because of scheduling conflicts, Bryce Dallas Howard was cast as Victoria, replacing Rachelle Lefevre who previously played her.^[10]

The film was released on June 30, 2010, and became the first Twilight film to be released in IMAX.^[5][11] It set a new record for biggest midnight opening in domestic (United States and Canada) in box office history, grossing an estimated $30 million in over 4,000 theaters.^[12] The previous record holder was the previous film in the series, The Twilight Saga: New Moon with $26.3 million in 3,514 theaters.^[12] The film then scored the biggest Wednesday opening in domestic history with $68,533,840 beating Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’s $62 million.^[13] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse has also become the film with the widest independent release, playing in over 4,416 theaters, surpassing its predecessor, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which held the record since November.^[14]

Recommendation: 4/5

I’m not a fan of Twilight or maybe, not yet. Not much action though. Mostly, the talking, which kind of bored me down. But again, Robert Pattinson looks real cute. =P

Knight and Day,^[4] (formerly titled Wichita^[5] and Trouble Man^[4]) is a 2010 action comedy film starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. The film, directed by James Mangold, is Cruise and Diaz’s second on-screen collaboration following the 2001 film Vanilla Sky.^[6]

The film went through a period of “development hell“; which included a prior film director and multiple writers that worked on the script. Producers for Knight and Day went through multiple other actors for the lead roles before eventually settling on Cruise and Diaz. Adam Sandler, Chris Tucker, and Gerard Butler were considered by the film’s producers for the male lead that later went to Cruise, and Eva Mendes was initially set for the role that Diaz later portrayed in the movie. The film’s investors offset funding costs by paying Cruise a lower advance fee and neglecting to provide him with a share of the revenue until the financiers earn back their initial investment in the production.^[7] Filming took place in several locations, mainly in several cities located in Massachusetts, while other scenes were filmed in Spain and parts of Austria.

Knight and Day was released in the United States on June 24, 2010. The film received mixed reviews from film critics; it garnered a “rotten” rating on Rotten Tomatoes based upon aggregated reviews,^[8] and a rating of “mixed or average reviews” at Metacritic.^[9] Knight and Day performed poorly at the box office in its debut,^[10] proceeded to fall nine percent in ticket sales in its second day after being released,^[11] and took third place behind films Toy Story 3 and the comedy Grown Ups in its first Friday after release.^[12] At $20.5 million, the total U.S. weekend box office take for Knight and Day was the worst result for an action film starring Tom Cruise in 20 years

Recommendation: 3/5

A no plot show. Just for laugh I guess. And also the yummilicious Tom Cruise. =X

12-year-old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) could’ve been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother’s (Taraji P. Henson) latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying and the feeling is mutual, but cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre’s feelings make an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. In the land of kung fu, Dre knows only a little karate, and Cheng puts the “karate kid” on the floor with ease. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), who is secretly a master of kung fu. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realises that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.

Recommendation: 4/5

Some scenes, like the 2 kids kissing shouldn’t be there. Friends don’t kiss. The middle portion of the movie is a little boring. But overall, not bad. Was expecting more Kungfu in the show but unfortunately, no.

For sure, I’m watching. =D

Especially, it’s the 1st Hollywood movie Jay’s acting. =D

Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated film. It is the third installment in the Toy Story series. The film was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Lee Unkrich, who edited the previous films, and co-directed the second, takes over as director. Ken Schretzmann is the editor.

Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Estelle Harris, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, Jeff Pidgeon, Jodi Benson, R. Lee Ermey, John Morris, and Laurie Metcalf all reprised their roles from the previous films. Jim Varney, who played Slinky Dog in the first two movies, and Joe Ranft, who played Lenny and Wheezy, have both died since the second film was released, but Blake Clark, a good friend of Varney’s, took over the role of Slinky, and Wheezy was revealed to be written out of the story, along with Etch, Bo Peep, RC, and most of the ensemble cast of toys.

Toy Story 3 was released in theaters on June 18, 2010 in the United States and Canada. It will be released June 24, 2010 in Australia and July 23, 2010 in the United Kingdom and Ireland.^[4][5] Toy Story 3 broke the record of Shrek the Third as the biggest single day gross for an animated film, with $41 million^[6]

As Andy, now 17, prepares to leave for college, his toys face an uncertain future, since he has not played with them in years. He decides to take Woody with him, packing the others in an unlabeled garbage bag, which he intends to store in the attic. Unfortunately, when Andy’s sister distracts him, his mom takes the garbage bag to the curb, thinking that it contains trash.

Woody, the only toy who realizes what Andy was trying to do, finds the others and tries to explain, but they refuse to listen. They decide instead to go to a daycare center, and Woody winds up unintentionally going with them. Upon their arrival, they receive a warm reception from the other toys, led by a large stuffed bear (Lots-o-Huggin’ Bear, aka “Lotso”). Seeing how happy his friends are at the center, Woody says goodbye to them and leaves for Andy’s house. He does not get far before Bonnie, one of the center’s kids, finds him and takes him home to become one of her toys.

Meanwhile, Woody’s friends receive an unpleasant surprise when the group of young kids in the room where they are located plays with them too roughly. They then learn that Woody was telling the truth when Mrs. Potato Head, who lost an eye in Andy’s house, sees Andy becoming upset with his mom over the toys; they decide to escape. Buzz leaves the room, but before he can help the others, Lotso catches him and tries to bargain with him. Buzz refuses, and Lotso reprograms him, then turns him on the others, thus imprisoning them.

At Bonnie’s house, Woody learns that Lotso was once owned by a loving girl named Daisy, but snapped when he discovered that he was replaced after being lost during a family trip: Daisy had fallen asleep. Lotso then took over the daycare center, making it a prison for its toy inhabitants. Woody decides to rescue the others from the daycare center and get back to Andy’s house before Andy departs for college.

Woody sneaks in and comes up with a plan to bypass the security that Lotso has set up. He and his friends reprogram Buzz, but during the process, he loses his memory, behaving like a real Space Ranger while speaking Spanish. The toys nearly escape, but Lotso catches them on a dumpster, with a garbage truck fast approaching. Woody convinces the other daycare toys of Lotso’s treachery, and they toss Lotso in the dumpster. However, Lotso grabs Woody at the last minute, and Woody’s friends jump in to rescue him. The garbage truck then takes them all to the city dump, where Woody rescues his friends — and Lotso — from an incinerator. Lotso, however, betrays them and leaves them to certain death, only to be rescued by the green aliens, who separated from the gang, and meanwhile discovered an oversize version of a familiar tool. Eventually, Lotso is snatched by a garbage man who once had a Lotso of his own: he is tied to the front of the garbage truck, along with a few other mangled toys, who immediately dispense friendly advice to their fellow passenger.

Meanwhile, having narrowly escaped the incinerator, Woody and the gang clean themselves up and make their way back to Andy’s house. Woody decides that his friends deserve better than being stored in the attic, and leaves a sticky note on their box. Andy reads the note and donates the toys to Bonnie, introducing each toy. Bonnie notices Woody at the bottom of the box. Hesitant to give him up at first, Andy realizes that Bonnie will take good care of Woody, adding he is “special because he’ll never give up on you… no matter what,” as he hands her the cowboy. Andy and Bonnie play with the toys before Andy finally drives off. As Woody and Buzz watch Andy leave, Woody introduces Buzz and his friends to Bonnie’s other toys.

The ending credits show Andy’s toys getting used to life at Bonnie’s, while Sunnyside is now a happy place for new arrivals as well as old toys.

Recommendation: 4/5

Pixar introduced the world to Woody, Buzz and the motley menagerie with the original “Toy Story” back in 1995. Fifteen years later, Andy, the owner of the gang is heading to college and the toys find themselves in the precarious state of imminent and permanent disposal. This second sequel, presented in 3-D, tries to recapture the beatific joy and rapturous wonderment experienced upon seeing the toys brought to life for the very first time. Although the issues addressed in this installment is similar to that of “Toy Story 2″, involving the fear of obsolescence, neglect and abandonment of the toys, they remain relevant and essential to the storyline. This latest addition to Pixar’s hall of fame may seem pale in terms of thematic sophistication when compared to the studio’s previous works such as “Wall-E” and “Up”, but it is still emotionally resonant and poignant. Apart from the familiar crew, new characters make their entrance at the daycare center where the toys are donated to. There is the despotic strawberry-scented bear, Lotso, acting as a prison warden preventing the toys from returning home to Andy, and the himbo Ken who has a wardrobe in his dream-house that you would not believe. The toys hatch a daring escape plan, culminating in a cataclysmic brush with death at a desolate landfill. The final moments of the film is pure cinematic gold, a bittersweet ending that will make you teary for these beloved plastic figures that have accompanied you for the past decade and a half. This sentimental conclusion is an emotionally invested trip down memory lane filled with nostalgia, childhood reminiscence and an important lesson that love was never about possession.