Chuck's Movie Breakdown

       Hey guys, Chuck here. Megalopolis is the latest film from legendary director Francis Ford Coppola, and it boasts an impressive ensemble cast, which includes the likes of Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Jason Schwartzman, Talia Shire, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, and Dustin Hoffman.         The movie is set in the city of New Rome, which is part of an alternate present day "American Republic," and we see a clashing of ideologies between idealistic architect Cesar Catalina, who has the power to stop time, and New Rome's conservative Mayor Franklin Cicero. Caught between the two is Mayor Cicero's daughter Julia, who also happens to be Cesar's love interest. Cesar has created a bio-adaptive building material called Megalon, which he hopes to use to construct the city of the future: Megalopolis.          Okay, so Megalop...

         Hey guys, Chuck here. Transformers One is a new animated film from Paramount Animation and Hasbro, and marks the first fully animated Transformers film since the '80s classic. The voice cast includes the likes of Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Jon Hamm, Steve Buscemi, Jon Bailey, and Laurence Fishburne.          The movie is set on Cybertron, where the surface is mostly devoid of life after a war between the Primes and the Quintessons, and the Cybertronian race, led by Sentinel Prime, lives underground and unable to transform. Front and center in this movie are two mining bots named Orion Pax and D-16. One day, along with Elita-One and B-127, Orion Pax and D-16 learn a terrible truth about their leader, and are given a chance to save their race, and their world, from a devious traitor.          So, this movie is easily the best Transformers movie yet, as it fo...

       Hey guys, Chuck here. In 1985, game company Broderbund released a game that combined clue-solving, geography, and world history. And, to this day, Carmen Sandiego remains one of the most prominent edutainment video game franchises, along with the likes of JumpStart  and Reader Rabbit . However, Carmen Sandiego 's popularity led to multiple television series, including a game show on PBS, an animated series on Fox Kids, and the latest animated series, which was produced for Netflix.           Running from January 2019 through January 2021, the Netflix animated series Carmen Sandiego, developed by Duane Capizzi, reimagines the iconic character for a new generation. The series features a very stellar cast, which includes the likes of Gina Rodriguez, Finn Wolfhard, Michael Hawley, Abby Trott, Paul Nakauchi, Dawnn Lewis, Charlet Chung, Liam O'Brien, Kari Wahlgren, Kimiko Glen, Dante Basco, and Rita Moreno.      ...

        Hey guys, Chuck here. And, today I'm taking a look at the 2006 action thriller Snakes on a Plane , directed by David R. Ellis, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Sunny Mabrey, Kenan Thompson, Bobby Cannavale, Nathan Phillips, Flex Alexander, Elsa Pataky, David Koechner, Tom Butler, Todd Luiso, and Byron Lawson.         The movie opens in Hawaii, where pro surfer and extreme sports enthusiast Sean Jones witnesses Los Angeles crime boss Eddie Kim bludgeon the prosecuting attorney in the trial against Kim to death. Sean barely escapes, but Kim and his thugs hear Sean's motorbike, and now have a need to kill him. Following him to his apartment, Kim's thugs are dispatched by FBI agent Neville Flynn, who takes Sean into protective custody, and is set to escort him on a flight back to L.A. to testify against Eddie Kim.         To pull this off, the FBI books out First Class on Pacific Flight 121, for...

         Hey guys, Chuck here. Well, we're still inching closer and closer to the next Presidential Election here in the United States, so it's time for the second of two reviews related to the President of the U.S. The last movie I reviewed was Dave, which was about a man hired to serve as a body double for the President. Today's review is, in fact, about the President.         Released in 1995, The American President was the second collaboration between director Robert Reiner and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, coming off of their previous collaboration on the courtroom drama A Few Good Men . The American President stars Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, Samantha Mathis, and Richard Dreyfus.        The movie centers on President Andrew Shepherd, who is preparing for his re-election, and is hoping a crime prevention bill, despite it being seen as too weak by liberals and getting rejected by co...

       Hey guys, Chuck here. Well, last month, I took a look at The Bourne Identity. Well, I guess it's only appropriate that I take a look at its 2004 sequel. Released by Universal Pictures, The Bourne Supremacy  was directed by Paul Greengrass, and stars Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban, Marton Csokas, Gabriel Mann, and Joan Allen. And, while The Bourne Identity does follow a similar plot to the novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy takes the title of Ludlum's second Bourne novel, but is very much its own thing.         So, it's been a bit since Jason Bourne left his past life as a CIA assassin behind, and he's living a quiet life in India together with his girlfriend, Marie Kreutz. Unfortunately, Jason is set up by a.Russian assassin named Kirill, who ruins a deal between the CIA and an unnamed Russian source, who was going to sell the CIA a file on a Russian political figure name...

        Hey guys, Chuck here. Well, we're finally wrapping up the main Ocean's trilogy with Ocean's Thirteen , the 2007 film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Elliot Gould, Carl Reiner, Shaobo Qin, Eddie Izzard, Vincent Cassel, Scott Caan, Casey Affleck, Eddie Jemison, Bob Einstein, Ellen Barkin, Julian Sands, and Al Pacino.          So, the movie opens with Danny and the boys reuniting in Las Vegas, as Reuben has been hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. You see, Reuben decided to open a bold new casino, The Midas, with an old friend named Willy Bank. However, Bank lives up to his reputation and screws Reuben out of their partnership in exchange for a nominal cash payment, renaming the new hotel/casino as The Bank.          Danny initially offers Bank a "Billy Martin," but he doesn't go for it, and within a few months, The B...

        Hey guys, Chuck here. Back in May, I took a look at the Roland Emmerich film Stargate . And, even though both Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin had every intention of continuing the story of the film with at least two sequels, franchise rights owners Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) opted instead to continue the Stargate story on television. And to accomplish this, MGM turned to Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, who began development on the television series Stargate SG-1 . Wright and Glassner would eventually be joined as creative producers by Robert C. Cooper and Richard Dean Anderson, the latter of whom would Star in the series, along with such cast members as Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Don S. Davis. Later casting additions would include Corin Nemec, Ben Browder, Claudia Black, and Beau Bridges.          The series opens with the episode Children of the Gods , which sees a group of U.S. Air Force officers attack...

        Hey guys, Chuck here. Tim Burton is officially back with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long overdue sequel to his 1980's supernatural comedy classic Beetlejuice . Returning cast members include Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O'Hara, and they are joined by Monica Bellucci, Justin Theroux, Jenna Ortega, Danny DeVito, Santiago Cabrera, and Willem Dafoe.         So, the movie sees Lydia Deetz return to the small town of Winter River, where she, her teenage daughter Astrid, and stepmother Delia all mourn the passing of Lydia's father Charles Deetz. Unfortunately, the ghost with the most, Betelgeuse, is back, and things start going really wild. How? You gotta see the movie to find that out.          Okay, so the humor is absolute gut-busting levels of hilarious, but it's also insanely crass and crude. Pretty much on point with the humor in the original Beetlejuice . Just a warning for those who aren't co...

       Hey guys, Chuck here. Back at the start of the 2000's, Nickelodeon produced an animated series called The Fairly OddParents . The series told the story of a boy named Timmy Turner, who was tormented by his evil babysitter, Vicky, bullied by a bruiser named Francis, is targeted by his deranged teacher, Denzel Crocker, and essentially neglected by his dumbass parents. To help him with his life, he is given two fairy godparents names Cosmo and Wanda. The series itself, created by Butch Hartman, was very popular, and of course Nickelodeon would seek to produce a live-action project based on the series. To this end, they decided to have the movie set well after the events of the series, and see Timmy Turner as a grown man. Yes, you read that correctly.          Airing on Nickelodeon in 2011, A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! would be set roughly a decade after the events of the cartoon, and would see Timmy Turner, now in his twenti...