Tobey Maguire, while wildly questioned and almost literally spat upon by Spidey comic book loyalists when he won the sought after role, is perfect as he brings the webslinger to life in an astounding manner. With Maguire, it’s all in the eyes. He can tell a story without uttering a word. As Peter Parker, graduating high school student and the much picked upon class nerd, Maguire makes you feel every bit of ridicule he undergoes. He draws you into his world, the world where his best friend is also an outcast, the love of his life – Mary Jane – lives next door but hasn’t a clue how he feels, and where he’s raised in a loving home by an elderly aunt and uncle whose very embrace sets the world aright.

When Sam is attacked by a menacing cop car by the name of Barricade and is saved by Bumblebee in his true form, he finds out that he’s firmly in the middle of a brutal conflict that could destroy the planet. Bumblebee calls in the reinforcements, and we’re introduced to the rest of the Autobots, including a gorgeously animated Optimus Prime who is again played by the incomparablePeter Cullen. If you have fond memories of the character, they won’t be ruined here.

The passengers deal with the initial shock in a variety of ways.  While Jack and Kate try to bring the group together in what may be a fight for survival, others choose to sit and wait for the rescue that may never come.  A non-English-speaking Korean couple, Jin (Daniel Dae Kim, Crusade & Angel ) and Sun (Yunjin Kim), segregate themselves from the others, finding their ways to different from the rest of the survivors.  A Middle Eastern man fights the racial profiling from some of the other survivors while a vaguely strange older man (Terry O’Quinn, Millennium) sits on the beach, just taking it all in.  A rock star (Dominic Monaghan, Lord of the Rings) tries his best to help out but a drug addiction may threaten his own life and those around him.  A very pregnant woman worries that her child hasn’t survived the ordeal.

1.  In the first scene, Michelle Rodriguez and Vin Diesel are together in a car, driving alongside an oil truck on a twisty mountain road. Apparently in cahoots with two other pairs in two other cars (both of whom, audience reaction would suggest, are familiar from previous films in the franchise), Vin and Michelle are planning to use their driving skills to steal gas. When the time is right, Michelle kisses Vin (thus telling us that they are a couple — and, since IMDB indicates they haven’t been in a Fast & Furious film together since the franchise’s opening salvo in 2001, they’ve presumably been together without incident for the eight years in between), then climbs out the window of the moving car, announcing the film’s rallying cry and raison d’etre as she moves: “Let’s make some money!” Wink wink, LOL y’all, although in a world where Tina Fey addresses the sponsors of the TV show she produces whilst in front of the camera as its star, for a quadquel to pointedly anticipate and address criticism that it’s a stale leftover reheated for cash before the opening action setpiece even kicks into high gear, feels weirdly  stale and reheated in itself.

6 hours ago,I went to the movies to catch the 4:40 showing of ‘Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs’ with my older sister and her boyfriend.I liked the first movie but I haven’t seen the second,but that didn’t stop me from wanting to see the 3rd installment in the popular series.Boy,am I glad that I spent money and 94 minutes of my life by seeing this.The movie was packed with humor,action,adventure,interesting characters,and even some heart.There are many relationships between characters in this movie that help it from melting.Manny and Ellie are 2 happy woolly mammoths who are expecting a baby.Scrat,the squirrel who continues on his hunt for acorns,meets a female squirrel named Scratee(Scrah-tay),and falls for her.Sid becomes a parent when he discovers 3 eggs underground.In short,I loved this movie.