DVD World Report

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Twilight is still leading, but Muppets back very well to theaters in holiday week

And the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 took advantage of the Thanksgiving holiday without too many problems to overcome the barrier of U.S.$ 200 million. By adding the box office since Wednesday (the day before the holiday) until this Sunday, the fourth film made an estimated 62.3 million. In total, the film has the sum of 221.3 million dollars just in the United States and nearly 500 million worldwide. The result in the United States, however, is still below New Moon, in the same period had 230 million in the safe.

The penultimate film in the Twilight series consumes the mortal love Bella with Edward the vampire, and the fruit of this relationship ignites a war with the wolves and the Volturi.

In second place, The Muppets showed that many people still want to see the stories of rag dolls created by Jim Henson. The film conceived by and starring Jason Segel made 42 million during the holiday. Great result for the average budget of 45 million cost, and excellent news for Disney, which bought the franchise in 2004. In the film, Walter, the biggest fan of the Muppets, is on vacation in Los Angeles along with his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams). When you visit the Muppet Theater, they discover the evil plan of Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to demolish the theater and stay off of the Muppets with the oil that has been discovered there. Kermit then enlists the help of his new friends to gather and Muppets do a telethon to raise $ 10 million and save the theater. The premiere takes place in Brazil this coming Friday, December 2. See the trailer.

Happy Feet 2 is still disappointing at the box office, but at least managed to hold onto the podium. With the $ 18.4 million that made this holiday is U.S.$ 43.8 million, slightly more than the 41 million it made in its original debut weekend and value that is well below the 150 million who claim to have cost to be done. In the sequel, Mano has a son, Erik, who does not like to sing and does not take very good at dancing. Erik runs away and finds a penguin that can fly, Sven. As Mano can compete with the new idol of the puppy?

Continuing with two more firsts for the family oriented, Arthur Christmas and Hugo close the top 5 of the week.

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When Happy Feet – The Penguin (2006) came they were all amazed with these cute creatures, the musical sequences, the tap dancing for Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) and the story that talked about accepting and being accepted for who you are, and a ecological message. Animation directed by George Miller raised nearly $ 400 million at box offices around the world and still grabbed the Oscar for best animated feature film that year, beating Cars and Monster House. The natural consequence of all this would be a continuation. And here we are, five years later, seeing Happy Feet 2 (2011).

In the second film, after the death of (Brittany Murphy) has a small sapling, Erik (Ava Acres), as insecure as was his father. The high level of cuteness of the new character, present throughout the film’s release, once again can fool unsuspecting parents who take their children imagining an innocent and cute design. Happy Feet 2 has action scenes quite realistic characters who screamed loudly and other noises of avalanches and earthquakes that can strike fear in young children. And the bigger problem is that these sequences do not serve to make the story move forward.

At 100 minutes, we see the story

of a son who can not match his father and runs away with friends. A father who is a guilty conscience and will try to reconcile. The replacement of a father figure by another hero. The lessons of humility and forgiveness, and all outcomes to the problems presented above, but without a unit. It seems like the script was made from a brainstorm on ideas that came from there and went straight to the paper, without concern for the whole forming a plot that is initially more uncertain than the path of a snowflake and at the end, is more thin and bumpy than the current ozone layer – the warning of ecological time.

Parallel to all this we follow the journey of two krill, tiny shrimp species, voiced by Matt Damon and Brad Pitt in the original version. The duo, in search of evolution and meaning in life, should serve as comic relief, but falls far short of its unstated (but obvious) inspiration, the prehistoric squirrel Scratch from Ice Age. However, from the aesthetic point of view, the two characters are very important. When we follow on screen their lucubratio

ns, they fill the screen with your details digitally reproduced by minimally pixels. When trying to put their ideas into practice, the plan opens at high speed, showing the insignificance of those people close to the other animals in an interesting camera movement.

But with the constant presence of the two on stage, that leaves less room for the gallant Latin penguin Ramon (Robin Williams), who now plays on the floor to win the heart of Carmen (the misused Sofia Vergara). But the other part of Williams, the penguin guru Amoroso, is even more boring than the animation of 2006. If he was back there helped show the “bottom line”, appears here just to put the flying penguin Sven (Hank Azaria) as the new savior. So it ends up being the synthesis of the franchise, which was once visionary and leader, and now follows the other. Is there a penguin doing parkour to prove all this.