Top 10 Movies In Canada (Going Into First Week Of April)

1. Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Total gross: $23.75M

2. Sucker Punch

Total gross: $19.06M

3. Limitless

Total gross: $41.11M

4. The Lincoln Lawyer

Total gross: $28.72M

5. Rango

Total gross: $106.34M

6. Paul

Total gross: $24.96M

7. Battle: Los Angeles

Total gross: $72.56M

8. Red Riding Hood

Total gross: $32.42M

9. The Adjustment Bureau

Total gross: $54.92M

10. Mars Needs Moms

Total gross: $19.22M

A Possible Shock To Some Readers

Today, I started watching the movie ``The Lion King'' for the first time. I have never seen ``The Lion King'' before. I've also never seen ``Fantasia'', ``Bambi'', ``Dumbo'', ``Aladdin'', ``Snow White and the Seven Dwarves'', ``Sleeping Beauty'', ``Beauty and the Beast'' and I don't really remember watching the whole thing of ``Cinderella'' or ``The Jungle Book''. I watched a bit of ``Cinderella'' and ``The Jungle Book'', but I don't think I saw the whole thing.

Movies Coming Out On April 29th, 2011.

Dylan Dog: Dead Of the Night

Fast Five

Prom

Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS Evil

Movies Coming Out On April 22nd, 2011.

African Cats

Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family

Water For Elephants

Movies Coming Out On April 15th, 2011.

Atlas Shrugged: Part I

Rio

Scream 4

The Conspirator

Movie Coming Out On April 8th, 2011

Hanna

American: The Bill Hicks Story

Arthur

Born To Be Wild

Soul Surfer

Your Highness

Movies Coming Out On April 1st, 2011.

Hop

Source Code

Insidious

Super

Rubber

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules review

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

*** (out of four)

Starring Zachary Gordon, Devon Bostick, Rachael Harris, Steve Zahn

and Robert Capron. Directed by David Bowers. Approximately 96 minutes. Rated G.

Back in March 2010, the book adaptation of author Jeff Kinney's bestselling novel ``Diary Of A Wimpy Kid'' was released in theaters. In my opinion, when I first saw the trailer, I thought that it looked like a dumb movie. However, I saw it and I really liked it a lot. Fast forward quite a few months and here I am at the screening of ``Gulliver's Travels'' and one of the previews is ``Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules'', the sequel to ``Diary Of A Wimpy Kid''. I thought that I would go see it, due to the fact that the first movie was good.

However, a couple of months later, I saw another trailer for the movie and I hardly laughed. Still, I wanted to give it a chance. So, today, I went to the 12:50 showing of it and I have to say, I was impressed.

The sequel tells the story of now-seventh-grader Greg Heffley and his life, just the way it was in the first movie. Only this time, it's not about just middle school. It also revolves around the relationship with his older brother Rodrick (Devon Bostick). They do not get along well, but if you have seen the first movie, you can understand why: Rodrick is a jerk.

Finally, one morning, Greg's mom (Rachael Harris) tells Rodrick and Greg that they need to learn how to get along with each other. So, she decides to pay them play money for every hour they spend not bickering. The play money can be traded in for actual money, so that makes Rodrick happy.

The movie also tells the story of Greg's crush on the new girl Holly (Peyton List), a girl that people think Greg will have no chance with.

In some parts of the movie, we see Greg hanging out with his best friend Rowley (Robert Capron) and those parts are pretty entertaining.

This movie turned out to be a pretty good sequel to the first movie, in my opinion. The kid actors in this movie are pretty good, especially Greg's friend Rowley, who is one of the most likable characters in the movie. The message also has a good lesson about how to treat your siblings kindly, even if you fight with them at times. If you parents or kids like the sound of this movie, then you should go rent the first movie. Then, you should go see the sequel. Don't watch the trailers for the first movie or this movie. You might get turned off.

Top 10 Movies In Canada (Last Week Of March)

1. Limitless

Total gross: $19.0M

2. Rango

Total gross: $92.34M

3. Battle: Los Angeles

Total gross: $60.54M

4. The Lincoln Lawyer

Total gross: $13.21M

5. Paul

Total gross: $13.04M

6. Red Riding Hood

Total gross: $25.9M

7. The Adjustment Bureau

Total gross: $48.62M

8. Mars Needs Moms

Total gross: $15.4M

9. The Eagle

Total gross: $22.18M

10. Hall Pass

Total gross: $39.56M

Movies Coming Out On March 25th, 2011.

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Sucker Punch

Peep World

Illegal

Miral

Potiche

White Irish Drinkers

Mia and the Magoo

My Perestroika

Honey

The Lion Of Judah

Thunder Soul

One Hundred Mornings

I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You

Queen Of the Sun; What Are the Bees Telling Us?

Mars Needs Moms review

Mars Needs Moms:

*** (out of four)

Includes the voices of Seth Dusky,

Joan Cusack, Dan Fogler and

Mindy Sterling.

Directed by Simon Wells.

Approximately 82 minutes, Rated PG.

Back in November, when I went to see ``Tangled'', I saw a trailer for the upcoming animated movie ``Mars Needs Moms''. Holy smokes, it looked terrible. I was only amused once during the preview and I wasn't amused too much. A few months later, I watched a movie clip of ``Mars Needs Moms''. You're probably thinking that I would think that it looked good after seeing the clip.

Nope. I thought it looked dumb still. However, next month, I had seen every movie that I could possibly see in theaters that I wanted to see and I just decided to take a risk and see ``Mars Needs Moms''. I didn't care that the critics didn't really like it. I just wanted to see a movie and let me tell you something, I didn't regret seeing the movie.

It was really good. Now, for those of you who don't know what this movie is about, I will tell you. It tells the story of Milo (voiced by Seth Dusky), a kid who hates doing his chores and being told what to do by his mother (voiced by Joan Cusack). One night, when he doesn't eat his broccoli, he tells his mother that he wished he didn't have a mother. When he feels guilty about what he said and goes to apologize, he witnesses her being abducted by aliens. He runs outside to go and save her, but he gets abducted by aliens, too.

When he reaches the aliens' home (Mars), he meets a human named Gribble (voiced by Dan Fogler). Gribble came to Mars as a kid when he tried to rescue his mom. Milo is told by Gribble that Mars needs moms and that they are stealing them from Earth so they can extract their brains and transfer the mom skills into a robot to take care of Martian babies. When they are through with the moms, they kill them. So, in order to prevent this from happening to his mom, Milo tries to rescue his mom with the help of Gribble and a kind Martian named Ki without being caught by the Supervisor (voiced by Mindy Sterling), an ugly Martian dictator.

``Mars Needs Moms'' is an exciting and sometimes funny animated movie with a good message to kids that mothers are important. Now, if you like the sound of this review and you wish to go see ``Mars Needs Moms'', you better hurry because it only grossed $6.1 million dollars and was number five at the box office when it first came out. So, the movie might not be in theaters for much longer.

Movies Coming Out On March 18th, 2011

Limitless

Paul

The Lincoln Lawyer

Win Win

Cracks

Winter In Wartime

Desert Flower

The Music Never Stopped

Nostalgia For the Light

Bill Cunningham New York

The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman

The Gift To Stalin

Motherland

Zeroes and Ones

Alabama Moon

Gulliver's Travels: A Different Opinion

Forget what I said about ``Gulliver's Travels''. It doesn't deserve a two and a half out of four. It was a lame movie. It deserves one and a half out of four. What a disappointing movie.

Top 10 Movies In Canada (Third Week Of March)

1. Battle: Los Angeles

Total gross: $35.57M

2. Rango

Total gross: $68.21M

3. Red Riding Hood

Total gross: $14.01M

4. The Adjustment Bureau

Total gross: $38.59M

5. Mars Needs Moms

Total gross: $6.91M

6. Beastly

Total gross: $16.91M

7. Hall Pass

Total gross: $34.84M

8. Just Go With It

Total gross: $94M

9. Gnomeo and Juliet

Total gross: $89.1M

10. The King's Speech

Total gross: $129.01M

Rango Review

Rango:

*** (out of four).

Includes the voices of Johnny Depp,

Ned Beatty, Isla Fisher, Abigail

Breslin, Alfred Molina and

Bill Nighy. Directed by

Gore Verbinski. Rated PG.

Approximately 107 minutes.

Last summer, I watched a preview for the upcoming animated movie ``Rango''. I read that it was going to be including the voice acting of Johnny Depp. I watched the trailer. I have to say, it looked like such a dumb movie. I hardly laughed when I was supposed to laugh in the trailer.

Then, you fast forward to March 2011 and I am reading positive reviews of this movie. Roger Ebert is giving it four stars out of four, The Toronto Star is giving it three stars out of four and so is The Globe and Mail. Plus, RottenTomatoes gave it 89% on its TomatoMeter.

Now, here I am, giving this movie a positive review, too. Now, for those of you readers who have no idea what this movie is about, I shall give you a quick summary. ``Rango'' is the story of a chameleon (voiced by Johnny Depp) who doesn't know who he is. One day, he is in the back of a car inside a terrarium acting out skits when all of a sudden, the car hits a bump and his terrarium is thrown out of the back of the car, leaving him behind. After this, he travels to a town called Dirt. There, he makes up a character named Rango and pretends he is so tough. Then, after killing a scary hawk, he becomes sheriff of the town.

In Dirt, they have water problems. Every Wednesday, they wait for water to come, but lately, the water has not come. So, Rango decides to form a posse and tries to find the water.

This is a pretty good movie. I laughed quite a bit during the movie. The dialogue was really good in the movie. I've heard some people say that this movie is scary and not for children. This movie is not bad for children, unless you have a severe fear of snakes because there is an evil snake named Rattlesnake Jake (voiced by Bill Nighy). If you don't have a severe fear of snakes, then there's nothing to fear. It is very funny and I think kids will like it because it's not only funny, there is also a pretty cool action scene with flying hawks and gunfire.

I think the movie could have been a bit shorter, but I didn't care that much. I had fun.