マリと子犬の物語

Just finsihed watching the movie マリと子犬の物語(A tale of Mari and Three puppies). Its really touching, and i cried n cried and still crying...

Its a true story happened in Japan.
Thanks to Edmund for recommending this movie to me. Its really great!

So glad its happy ending. So worrying Mari will die... phew...

If u like animal, u must watch this.
If u hate animal, u must watch too, u will know what animal willing to do for you if u treat them nice. Hope u guys enjoy it.

Btw, i have this movie with me, if u cant find it, i can share it with u. マリと子犬の物語
Mari to Koinu no Monogatari
A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies

Here with the official site of the movie:
http://mari-movie.jp/index.html

And the News
copied frm http://www.godsdirectcontact.org/eng/news/160/an1.htm

The Inspiring Story of Mari and Her Puppies
By the Japan News Group (Originally in Japanese)

Three puppies born on the day of an earthquake

On the fateful morning of October 23, 2004, a dog named Mari gave birth to three puppies in Yamakoshi Village, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. That evening, a severe earthquake struck Niigata and devastated the Village, causing almost all of its homes to collapse, including the one where Mari lived. During the quake the newborn puppies were jolted away from their mother, and since their eyes were still closed, they could not find their way back to her side. Also, because she was bound by a leash, Mari could not reach her babies. She tried repeatedly to pull free from the leash, but to no avail. Then, several tremors occurred and Mari tried even harder to break free until her neck began to bleed. Suddenly, another strong aftershock struck, Mari struggled with all her might, and the collar suddenly came loose. Next she quickly picked up her puppies, moved them to a safe place, and without taking a rest ran toward the ruins that were once her house.

Courageous rescue of grandfather

The grandfather of Mari’s family was home alone that day. He lived on the second floor, but suffered from a neurological disorder that made it impossible for him to stand on his feet or climb the stairs unassisted. After the earthquake, the old man was immobilized as he had been trapped beneath a wardrobe. Aftershocks and the total darkness resulting from a power outage pushed him into desperately thinking that death might be around the corner. Just then, Mari appeared in his room on the second floor and looked at him with encouraging eyes. The grandfather had been slipping into unconsciousness, but when he saw Mari he regained awareness although he was still immobilized. Mari then licked him to give him encouragement and went downstairs several times to check on her pups before quickly returning to the man’s room. She ran back and forth many times even though her paws had been injured by the sharp-edged glass and pieces of porcelain that lay all over the floor. Each trip gave her new wounds, but Mari managed to kindle new hope in the grandfather’s heart, and looking at Mari he thought, “I must live on. I cannot give up,” Finally, he pushed at the wardrobe with all his strength, it gave way and he managed to free himself. Then with Mari's encouragement, the grandfather spent two hours climbing down the stairs—a feat he had previously been unable to accomplish without help. Upon reaching the ground floor, he was happy to find that the three puppies were safe and sound.

A sad parting and further ordeals

After the October 23, 2004 earthquake Yamakoshi Village was in a state of total destruction and isolation as all local roads had been cut off. And with a continuous series of aftershocks increasing the danger of landslides, on October 25 all the villagers were evacuated by helicopter to a nearby accommodation center. Under these circumstances, the grandfather was forced to leave Mari behind for in times of disaster saving human lives is the main concern. He left all of his pet food for his beloved dog, prayed that she and her pups would be safe and took off her collar. Then, with no other options, as he boarded the helicopter to leave behind the one who had saved his life, he said with guilt and sadness, "I’m very sorry, Mari," and felt heart-broken as Mari howled in deep sorrow.

As time passed and her supply of rations ran out, Mari had to search for food in her abandoned village, suffering many ordeals as she tried to protect her little puppies. All the while the grandfather thought of her constantly, and with anxiety over the continuing tremors fell ill and had to be hospitalized. Then two weeks after the evacuation, the villagers were allowed to return to Yamakoshi to see their homes. Among the returnees was the man’s son, who immediately began to search for Mari. Upon finding her, he noticed that she was much thinner, and she hesitated for an instant after hearing her name but then dashed toward him. He held her close in his arms for a long time. Mari had not had enough food for herself, but she fed her babies milk and took care of them as well as she could. In contrast to their skinny mother, the three puppies looked chubby and healthy as they slept sweetly on the porch. The son was delighted to see the little pups growing up in good health.

Before Yamakoshi Village was reconstructed, the villagers remained in temporary housing in a neighboring city. Being in charge of advertising affairs for the village committee, the son was a busy man so he placed Mari and her puppies in the care of another family. When the grandfather was still in the hospital, Mari's caretaker took her to visit him. Thus, after undergoing countless trials, Mari and the old man were finally reunited. Mari was very happy to see the man, who was recuperating and said with quivering lips and tears filling his eyes, "Thank you for saving my life."

Then in April 2005 the grandfather was discharged from the hospital and began living with his son and Mari in an apartment. By that time Mari's three puppies had been adopted by other families and were growing up healthily in their new homes. Today, the grandfather and his family are still living in the apartment but look forward to returning soon to Yamakoshi Village.
Fireworks for Mari

Mari’s touching story, which illustrates the mutual trust and love between humans and animals that helps them through ordeals, has frequently been reported in the news media and has also been adapted as an illustrated storybook — Mari of Yamakoshi Village and Her Three Pups. The book has received a huge response in Japan and serves as a great inspiration for disaster victims. The company that published the volume is contributing part of its sales revenues to the reconstruction and relief funds for areas affected by the October 2004 earthquake, and distributes the book free of charge to children in Yamakoshi Village and its thirteen neighboring cities.

On August 2, 2005, the villagers held a fireworks celebration in their city of refuge just as they do in their home town each year, and this year event was entitled “Fireworks for Mari.” While participating in the festivity they wished that Yamakoshi Village could be recovered as quickly as possible. Amid the dazzling light and smoke of the fireworks, Mari's radiant smile seemed to fill the night sky, bringing hope and encouragement to the spectators.

In mandarin:
剧情介绍
　　
在曰本新潟县山古志村，世代住着一家姓石川的人家。家里住着爸爸优一、儿子亮太、女儿彩和爷爷优造4人。亮太和彩的妈妈幸子很早就死了，于是，幸子的妹妹冴子常常过去照顾两个孩子。

一天，亮太和彩在玩耍的地方发现一个纸盒子，上面写着“请收养我”，里面装着一只可爱的小狗。两人把小狗带回家，给它取名为玛丽，于是，这只小狗成为了他们家的新成员。

玛丽渐渐长大，到了2004年，它已经成为三只小狗的妈妈了。亮太和彩常常带着它们在山野间快乐地奔跑。可是，幸福的时光转瞬即逝。

2004年10月23日下午5点56分，新潟县中越地区发生大地震。一瞬间，山崩地裂，房屋倒塌……爸爸优一因为上班还没回山古志村，亮太也在学校上 课。地震过后，因为曰本的学校都是按照地震避难所来建造的，所以村子里的人都相继逃到了学校来了。可是等了半天，亮太都没有看到爷爷和妹妹的身影。原来， 他们被压在倒塌的房子下面了。

黑暗中，爷爷仿佛听到一些动静，是玛丽寻了过来。它把三只小狗安顿好，就跑到瓦砾里来，试图把爷爷和彩拖出来。可是，一只狗如何能拖动两个人呢？！就在玛丽努力着的同时，自卫队的救援工作也正在展开。

Another version:
代代在新潟縣山古志村生活的石川家，是由在村辦公室工作的優一（船越英一郎）、兒子亮太（廣田亮平）和妹妹彩（佐佐木麻緒）、還有頑固的祖父優造（宇津井 健）組成的四人家庭。亮太和彩的母親．幸子雖然已經過世了，但是在長岡經營美容院的幸子的妹妹．冴子（松本明子）會偶爾過來，代替母親準備餐點等等事情。

有一天，亮太和彩一起去平時遊玩的空地，與被丟棄在寫著「請領養牠」的紙箱裡的幼犬相遇。不湊巧的是父親最討厭的就是狗。雖然警告亮太不可能在家養狗，但 是彩無法捨棄回家的路上哪都跟著的小狗，「你還這麼小，爸爸跟媽媽就都不在了，好可憐喔…」。小時候母親就過世，聲音長相都不記得的彩讓亮太想到，拉攏爺 爺站在他們這邊，迫使爸爸認同他們飼養那隻小狗。就這樣，小狗被命名為瑪莉，成為石川家新的家人。2004年，瑪莉也長大，並生了三隻小狗。石川家因為多 了新家人非常高興。亮太和彩，瑪莉和小狗們，一起在山間奔跑玩樂。但是，幸福的時間也只有這瞬間。

10月23日（六）下午５點56分。新潟縣中越地震，發生。一瞬間山林崩塌，地面碎烈，眾家塌陷。父親優一因為工作關係暫離山谷志，亮太因為校外教學正在 學校。餘震持續的途中，亮太的學校變成地區避難所，陸陸續續有村人來集合，但是卻沒有彩跟爺爺的身影。在家裡的彩跟爺爺被壓在傾塌的房子裡。

不知道過了多久的時間。抱著彩的優造，做了人生最後的覺悟。但在這時候，逐漸淺薄的意識裡傳來似曾相似的聲音。原來是瑪莉。瑪莉跟幼犬們都很平安的樣子。 把幼犬集中在狗屋的瑪莉，潛入瓦礫堆中，即使遍體麟傷也要到兩人身邊。然後，像要把精神分給他們一般持續舔舐兩人的臉。瑪莉非常的努力，加油的想把兩人從 崩壞的家中救出，但是只憑瑪莉的力量，是沒有辦法為被壓在樑柱下的兩人做什麼。瑪莉一邊照顧著３隻幼犬，又為了幫彩和優造打氣，持續在瓦礫堆中來回穿梭。

山崩地裂道路不通的山古志村，被完全的孤立了。終於在這時，安田二曹（高嶋政伸）率領自衛隊的救援直昇機到來。多虧瑪莉把安田隊員誘導到崩塌的石川家，彩 跟優造也被平安的救出。兩人從瑪莉的身上得到存活希望。「瑪莉他們也一起走對吧？」但是彩的願望並沒有被實現。人命優先救的關係，救援隊的直昇機不能讓瑪 莉他們乘坐。「瑪莉－！」留下彩的呼喊聲，直昇機離開了村落。瑪莉他，一直目送著彩他們乘坐的直昇機離開。

瑪莉跟三隻幼犬被殘留在山古志村。在沒有食物的狀態下，拚命的從各式各樣的危險中守護孩子們的母親瑪莉。另一方面，在長岡的避難處，因為沒救到瑪莉這件事 感到心痛，希望他們能平安的彩和亮太。得知持續天氣不佳的山古志村有暴風靠近，彩和亮太知道瑪莉他們情況危急，決定自己去拯救他們。到底，殘留在山古志村 的瑪莉能夠持續保護著自己的孩子嗎？然後，家族能夠再團員嗎？為了守住無法替代的東西，大家都起身面對巨大的力量……。

幕后花絮
　　
2004年10月23日、下午5点56分。

以曰本新潟县中越地区为震源，发生了6.8级大地震。该地区的山古志村与外界联系的道路全部震断，成为一个封闭的“小岛”。就在人们为痛失家园而心伤 的时候，听到了这样一则感人的轶事。地震发生当天，一头母犬“玛丽”生下了3头小狗。地震发生后，人们纷纷避难去了，这只母犬独自在废墟中守护着自己的孩 子，16天后终于把孩子们带到了安全的避难所。玛丽这种顽强的生存斗志，给予受灾者们极大的鼓励和勇气，大家都积极投入到重建家园当中。

这部《玛丽和它的小狗们的故事》正是以实际存在的那只“玛丽”为原型拍摄而成的。片中饰演“玛丽”的“特形演员”的是一只叫作“小一”的母柴犬。“父 亲”的扮演者船越英一郎对“小一”的演技赞不绝口：“它（小一）是天才！演技非常好，今年的最佳女主角应该颁给它。”通常，电影中如果有动物参与演出，都 要准备2、3只相同种类的交替拍摄，可是这部片中，“小一”却是从头到尾没有替身的演下来，果然是一只演技非凡的狗！想必“小一”一定能成为本片的最大亮 点。

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Evan Almighty

Another sponsored movie by Mr Jeremy Tai. Watched it last night. Kinda nice and funny comedy! I noe i noe, wen u say comedy means its funny.... But some comedy is NOT funny. So this one is kinda cool. Story bout Noah. U noe who is Noah? A person in bible, which build the ARK and send all da animals to a safe place during da flood?Evan Almighty is a 2007 comedy film, and sequel to the 2003 film Bruce Almighty reprising his role as . It was directed by Tom Shadyac and stars Steve Carell, and Lauren Graham, with Morgan FreemanGod. Evan Almighty was released in cinemas on June 22, 2007.
Plot:
Behind and shepherds his family to Newly elected to Congress, former local TV newsman Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) leaves Buffalosuburban northern Virginia. His congressional campaign declared that he would change the world, but he never stated how. Once he reaches his new home and job, strange things start to happen. Animals (all different kinds of animals) start following Evan around.
He grows a beard that won't go away no matter how many times he shaves. Eight vacant lots in Evan's neighborhood are purchased in Evan's name. Stone age tools and wood planks are sent to his house. And the number 614 appears everywhere he goes. Evan soon learns that the number is a verse in the Bible. In the book of Genesis,

6:14 is the verse in which God instructs Noah to build the ark

Soon after, God (Morgan Freeman) appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark because a flood is coming. His family comes to believe he is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis, but soon thinks he is truly onto something of Biblical proportions. God tells Evan the flood will come September 22 mid-day.
Animals start following Evan to Congress causing him to eventually be suspended by Congressman Long (John Goodman) from work after he tells everyone that God told him to build an ark. His wife Joan and his three sons leave for her mother's house after seeing it on a news report, leaving him to build the ark himself, which gains international notice. Weeks after Joan leaves Evan, God appears to her as a waiter at a diner. He tells her that

God doesn't give things, he gives the opportunity to get things.

For example, God doesn't give a family togetherness, he gives the opportunity for families to be together. Seeing his meaning, Joan returns to Evan to finish the ark together. Evan's old colleagues tell him that Congressman Long built a dam over a nearby lake and cut corners to save businesses money.

September 22 comes with clear skies, and Evan loads the hundreds of animals onto the newly finished ark in front of live news crews and nearby citizens. Minutes pass with clear skies, so spectators start jeering at him. Dark clouds appear and rain starts pouring down. Evan tells everyone to board the ark but no one listens. The rain suddenly stops and everyone starts laughing at Evan. Evan thinks it's over until the poorly built dam bursts. Panic overtakes everyone and they board the ark. The ark sails down the streets of Washington D.C. from the flooded water of the burst lake until it eventually lands several feet from the Capitol. Evan tells Long that the flood was caused by his poorly made dam, which incites the other congressmen present to turn on him.

Evan and his family go on a hiking trip over the weekend and God reappears to Evan, telling him that the way to change the world is by doing one Act of Random Kindness ("ARK") after another.

Overall rating: /5

Meet the Robinsons

Watched this animation after surf's up. Sponsored by Mr Jeremy Tai too! Thanks heaps! Kinda like it, about back 2 da future thingy. Like it!!!!!!Meet the Robinsons is a computer-animated film and the 46th animated feature produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
Plot:
The movie opens with a woman approaching an orphanage at night in the rain, holding her baby. On the orphanage steps, she kisses her baby and then puts it down, but suddenly looks up as if she’s heard a noise. Mildred, the head of the orphanage, answers a knock at the door and finds the baby.

As years go by, Lewis, the baby, has apparently become an avid inventor and is actually a genius – he teaches a class and takes college classes.

His roommate, “Goob”, is tiredly helping Lewis make yet another invention in his room.

Lewis is always building and keeps Goob up every night, which makes Goob’s little league baseball career suffer. Mildred comes to the room and tells Lewis that there is another family coming to adopt him. During the meeting, Lewis tries to show off his invention, a machine to automatically make the perfect PB&J. However, it explodes and the family leaves in a huff.

Mildred finds Lewis on the roof where he always goes to think, and when Lewis says that no one, not even his own mother, wants him. Mildred tells Lewis that he doesn't know if that's true and that it's possible that his mother wanted to keep him and couldn't. Lewis gets an inspiration:

he’ll invent a machine to look back into his memories and see his mother

Lewis invents this machine over the next couple of days and Goob is unable to sleep. He complains to Mildred about this and says that he won’t be able to keep awake during the baseball game. Lewis heads to the school science fair, telling Mildred that he’s given up on being adopted and will only settle for his real family.

A hyperactive judge named Dr. Krunklehorn is looking at all the science experiments along with science teacher Mr. Willerstein.

Lewis is approached by a thirteen-year-old boy named Wilbur Robinson who claims he is a time cop from the future and that a man with a bowler hat stole a time machine, came to this time, and is after Lewis.

Lewis doesn’t believe him and Wilbur gets distracted, allowing Lewis to set up. However, the sinister Bowler Hat Man

lurks in the shadows nearby and sends Doris, a robotic hat with mechanical arms, to sabotage Lewis’s machine. As Lewis begins demonstrating the machine,
Wilbur spots the bowler hat and tries to stop Lewis but the machine explodes and the science fair is in chaos. Lewis runs out and leaves his machine, which the Bowler Hat Man steals.

At the orphanage, Lewis goes up on the roof, crushed. Wilbur appears and tells Lewis to go back to the science fair and fix the machine, but Lewis refuses. Lewis then says that if Wilbur can prove he’s from the future, Lewis will go back to the science fair and fix the machine. Wilbur agrees then pushes Lewis off the roof onto an invisible flying time machine, and uses it to take them to the future.

Soaring through a world of flying cars, clean cities, robots, and machines, Lewis finally believes Wilbur. But Lewis then says that he wants Wilbur to use the time machine to take him back to the day he was left at the orphanage so he can stop his mother from leaving him. When Wilbur refuses, Lewis grabs the steering wheel and causes the machine to crash. Wilbur is devastated and explains that there are only two time machines in existence, both made by Wilbur’s dad, and now one is destroyed while the Bowler Hat Man has the other. The two make a deal:

if Lewis fixes the time machine, Wilbur will use it to take him back to see his mother.

They smuggle the machine into Wilbur’s garage where Carl, the neurotic family robot, yells at Wilbur.

They tell Lewis to not leave the garage and hide his hair under a hat covered in fruit and tell him to fix the machine before Wilbur’s father returns in the morning. In private, Carl says that Wilbur shouldn’t have brought Lewis back, and that because he did there is a break in time and Wilbur could be erased. Downstairs, Lewis accidentally steps into an elevator and gets transported out of the house.

Back in the past, the Bowler Hat Man is talking with his hat, Doris. The two plan to take credit for inventing the memory machine, one of the things to do on Bowler Hat Man’s written checklist. That also includes:

• steal a time machine,
  
• steal an invention, and
  
• pretend that he invented it.

However, because he doesn't know how to use the machine, Bowler Hat Man is thrown out on his face. Bowler Hat Man goes to Lewis’s room to kidnap him (another on his list of things to do) but finds an injured Goob there instead. He fell asleep during the baseball game while on the field, which cost them the game, and the kids on his team beat him up for it, though the coach assured him to let it go. Bowler Hat Man gets very emotional and gives Goob a speech about holding the sadness inside and converting it to rage. On the roof, Doris finds traces of Wilbur’s time machine and the two head to the future to track down Lewis.

Meanwhile, Lewis is wandering around the Robinson house. He meets Lefty, the octopus butler, Two very odd twins named Spike and Dimitri (who live in flower pots and own the doorbells and have a doorbell ringing competition) and Grandpa Bud, a crazy old man looking for his dentures and wearing his clothes backwards.

Bud takes Lewis on a tour of the house while Wilbur goes on a frantic search for them. In the house, Lewis meets Uncle Gaston, shooting himself from a cannon to race Aunt Billie’s life-size toy train, Cousin Tallulah, wearing a skyscraper dress, who is fighting with her brother Laszlo, flying around on a jetpack and painting the walls, Billy’s husband, the obese Uncle Joe, who sits in his chair all day, Uncle Art delivering pizzas in a flying saucer like a superhero, Bud’s wife, Lucille, who dances to disco music, and Uncle Fritz, a spacey middle-aged guy, who argues with his wife – a ventriloquist puppet named Petunia.

Finally, Lewis meets Wilbur’s friendly mother, Franny,

conducting her frog jazz band.

The lead frog, Frankie, is wearing Bud’s teeth.

The entire family loves Lewis, but Wilbur sneaks in and takes him downstairs. Wilbur’s father is a master inventor and invented practically everything, coining the motto

“Keep moving forward”

Lewis attempts to fix the time machine but it breaks again.

Meanwhile, Bowler Hat Man and Doris try to sneak into the house. Doris spawns a miniature bowler hat which the Bowler Hat Man controls. Mini-Doris finds and takes control of Frankie.

During dinner, Lewis pretends to be an exchange student from Canada. Franny is extremely nice and Lewis finds himself loving everyone very much, but when Franny goes to remove Lewis’s hat, Wilbur initiates a kung-fu style meatball fight between Franny and Gaston. Lewis says that he is an orphan and wishes that he had a family like the Robinsons.

For dessert, Carl is about to serve PB&J sandwiches with a machine similar to the one Lewis made earlier. When it breaks, Wilbur decides to get Lewis to fix it to raise his confidence, but Lewis fails – and the entire family applauds the failure, saying that a failure means you can try again. Frankie enters, but he is just a small frog and can’t seize Lewis. Bowler Hat Man gets rid of Frankie and sees a hedge shaped like a T-Rex in the garden. He takes the time machine back to the past and returns with a real one. The entire family attempts to stop the T-Rex,

but it turns the tables and corners Wilbur and Lewis. The T-Rex is about to eat Wilbur but Lewis throws a shovel in his mouth to stop him.

Everyone is now slightly injured but also in love with Lewis. Wilbur is worried, and Lewis thanks everyone. But when says he has to go, Franny breaks down and says that she wants to adopt Lewis . Wilbur quickly knocks Lewis’s hat off and when everyone sees his hair, they are horrified. Franny takes back her adoption offer at once and says Lewis has to go. Wilbur explains the situation with the time machines and also blurts out that he never meant to take Lewis back to his mother. Lewis runs away, saying he won’t trust the Robinsons ever again. Everyone is furious with Wilbur, including Franny, who says that he is "grounded until he dies". Lewis is approached by the Bowler Hat Man and Doris and told that if he fixes the memory machine, they’ll take him to see his mother. Wilbur tries to stop him but Lewis, still angry with him, flies off with Bowler Hat Man.

In a dark room somewhere, Lewis repairs the memory machine and explains how to use it. He is then tied up by Doris and Bowler Hat Man turns on the lights – they are in Lewis’s old room at the orphanage. Bowler Hat Man reveals that he is in fact Goob. After Goob lost his baseball game, he went into long-term depression and remained an orphan. Over the years, Goob decided that his bad life was Lewis’s fault. At the same time, Wilbur’s father invented Doris but Doris malfunctioned so he shut her down. Doris escaped and found Goob. The two of them then decided to steal Mr. Robinson’s time machine and go back in time to steal Lewis’s first working machine. Lewis suddenly figures out why they are attacking him to hurt Mr. Robinson – Lewis IS Mr. Robinson. This is why Franny recognized him and said that he had to go back to the past and also why Wilbur believes Lewis can fix the time machine. If Lewis doesn’t invent the memory machine, the future will be destroyed. Lewis realizes that by not letting go of the past and not looking towards the future, Goob’s anger destroyed him; the same way Lewis was letting his anger about his mother ruin his own life.

Carl and Wilbur arrive at the orphanage and rescue Lewis and the memory machine. Lewis then tells Wilbur that he knows that he is Wilbur's father. They are friends again but just as they reach the Robinson house, Doris shows up and attacks Carl. Bowler Hat Man steals the memory machine and goes back to the past. Bowler Hat Man manages to successfully demonstrate the memory machine. The time line is broken and Wilbur is suddenly sucked out of existence. The future is radically changed and Lewis finds the Robinson house empty. On a television screen, Lewis sees that after taking the credit for the memory machine, Bowler Hat Man mass produces Doris. The Doris hats then destroy the cities, enslave all of humanity, and Doris attacks Goob.

Possessed by Doris hats, the Robinsons appear and attack Lewis. Lewis climbs into the time machine as the family tries to push it off a ledge. Lewis suddenly figures out how to fix the machine and flies away, but the entire Robinson house, now a giant Doris, chases after him. Millions of Doris robots also chase after him. Cornered by the Robinsons, Lewis angrily says

I wish I’d never invented that stupid hat!

He suddenly realizes what to do and flies into the past to the boardroom where Goob is about to take credit for Lewis’s invention. Lewis tells Bowler Hat Man about Doris' plan and Doris lunges at Lewis. However, Lewis looks at her and says

I’m never going to invent you.

Doris dissolves into nothingness.

Taking Bowler Hat Man with him, Lewis returns to the future and sees it rebuilding itself. The Robinsons are restored and Wilbur and Carl are restored. Lewis explains and tells Wilbur to adopt Bowler Hat Man, but Bowler Hat Man is gone. Lewis looks down and sees Bowler Hat Man’s checklist with all the previous objectives crossed out, but there is a new entry, a question mark.

Lewis reunites with the Robinsons. He is happy to have found his family at last. And Lewis' future self, Cornelius returns. He takes Lewis to his lab and we see the tremendous success Lewis will become. Lewis climbs back into the time machine with Wilbur and promises to make things right. He says goodbye to the Robinsons, but Wilbur goes to the night Lewis' mother left him at the orphanage. He gets out of the time machine and is about to talk to his mother as she puts the baby down, but stops, realizing that he already has a family. He slips on the stairs and hides – that moment during the opening when the mother thought she heard a noise. The mother leaves and Lewis knocks on the door of the orphanage.

Lewis returns to the day of the science fair and says goodbye (with a big loving hug) to Wilbur, but says that he will never forget him. Wilbur jokingly tells Lewis that he’ll will keep coming back until he gets things right. On the way to the science fair, Lewis stops by Goob’s baseball game and wakes him up in time to catch the final out and preserve the win for his team. Goob's a hero. At the fair, Lewis demonstrates his machine to Dr. Krunklehorn again, but this time it works. Images are displayed of her wedding – to Bud. Lewis realizes that Lucille is Dr. Krunklehorn in the future, his adoptive mother. At the same time he bumps into a young Franny, who says that she is training her frogs to sing but no one believes she’ll do it. A young Uncle Gaston asks Lewis if he can write a story about him.

Everything is now fixed. Lewis is adopted by Lucille and Bud and leaves Mildred and Goob, now a good friend (who is about to get adopted himself) at the orphanage. They move into a large observatory which will one day be the Robinson residence. Lewis sees the empty room that will be filled with all his inventions and gets to work building the robot that will one day be Carl.

Overall rating: /5

Surf's Up

Watched this animation few weeks ago. Movie sponsored by Mr Jeremy Tai. Ermm... Any comment bout this animation? Ermm... So so....

Really not that amaze especially after you watched Ratatouille. Although they purposely add in few cute characters. But yet.... Still cant convince me. Its like a documentary, keep on talking and talking.

Maybe it meant to be for adults, not a kids' animation? Hmm... Jz not my cuppa tea.

Surf's Up is an American computer-animated mockumentary film produced by Sony Pictures Animation, released on June 7, 2007 by Columbia Pictures.

Plot:

A documentary crew follows the events of Cody Maverick a small rockhopper penguin residing in Shiverpool, Antarctica (a pun on Liverpool, England). After a visit from surf legend Zeke "Big Z" Topanga, young Cody aspires to emulate the renowned legend by becoming a famous and respected surfer.

Eventually, talent scout Mikey Abromowitz arrives in Shiverpool to look for surfers to compete in the Big Z Memorial Surf Contest. Cody joins the group and befriends Chicken Joe, an easy-going surfer from Wisconsin. Upon arrival, Cody has an altercation with the egotistical Tank "The Shredder" Evans, a large muscular penguin and nine time winner of the Big Z Competition when he witnesses him hurling stones at Big Z's memorial shrine. He also meets a kind lifeguard named Lani Aliikai, with whom he falls in love with at first sight, when she saves a baby penguin from drowning. Tank challenges Cody to a surf-off on the spot and Cody's arrogance leads to a terrible wipeout. Lani Aliikai takes an injured Cody to the hidden home of Geek, a hermit, in order to help Cody recuperate from his fall. He had stepped on one of the poisonous reef inhabitants and Geek had pulled it out and urinated on Cody's foot in order to prevent him from dying.

Eventually Cody wakes up and tells Geek about big Z though Geek doesn't seem too interested. He shows Cody the route back to the beach when Geek sees a log of which all the best surfboards are made of. He tries to teach Cody how to make a surfboard and Cody got too eager therefore ruined his laughable idea of surfboard. Geek and Cody stumble upon an undiscovered, uninhabited beach and find Big Z's old shack and surfboards. Cody soon realises that Geek is Big Z. At first Big Z does not want to help Cody win the competition but then teaches him how to have fun therefore learning the meaning of surfing - just having fun.

Cody then asks Geek/Big Z to come and watch him surf in the Big Z memorial surf competition. Geek took it the wrong way and Cody and Big Z are no longer friends. Cody walks to the beach through the forest and is caught in a trap by cannibals of Pen Gu island. However Chicken Joe, who had been looking for Cody had befriended and learnt to communicate with the Pen Guins and then retrieves Cody just in time for the Surf Off.

The first wave leaves only Tank, Cody and Chicken Joe afloat and the second wipes out Tank. Tank floats to the surface of the water and tries to take out Chicken Joe while Cody has an opportunity to win, which he does not take so that he saves Chicken Joe therefore Joe won. While trying to swim back to shore another huge wave pushes Cody and Tank to "The Boneyard" the most dangerous part of the beach's water and Tank is knocked out cold. Lani rescues Tank and brings him to shore while Cody hangs on to one of the many jagged rocks. Big Z appears and rescues Cody and they paddle safely to shore. Z is then revealed to still be alive to the curious onlookers. After standing up to Reggie, Z invites everyone to the Northern side of the island where the film ends with Big Z, Cody, Lani, and many others surfing the waves as the sun sets.

Overall rating: /5

My busy semester break - Tuesday

Went back to da uni for group meeting early in da morning. Meeting until 4pm. can tell its reli tiring! Evonne them had a Pan Mee dinner for everyone.
Yee Xiang, Jeremy and Evonne.
Tricia too
Evonne and Tricia.
Yee Xiang and Jeremy
Natalie and Celeste.
The Pan Mee ( a kinda noodles that made from plain flour with soup.
The side dishes for da Pan Mee.

One excited thing is i watched Ratatouille at that night @ Jam Factory, Chapel St! It was a great animation!!!!!

If i need to rate the movie over 100%, i will give Ratatouille a 99%! For me it is just soooooo perfect! I LOVE IT!!! You can see those hardworks inside da animation, how the whole team study da rat's movements, actions, expressions, everything! I was great! If u haven watch it, please please please go and watch it!!!! Its really worth it!

What i got from Wikipedia:

Ratatouille (IPA pronunciation: /ˌɹætəˈtui, -ˈtwi/; French: /ʁataˈtuj/^[2]) is a 2007 animated feature film produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It tells the story of Rémy (voiced by Patton Oswalt), a rat living in Paris who wants to be a chef. The film was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005, and it was released on June 29, 2007 in the United States.

The Plot:

Rémy (Patton Oswalt) lives in a rat colony in the attic of a French country home with his brother Émile (Peter Sohn) and father Django (Brian Dennehy).

Inspired by France's recently deceased top chef, Auguste Gusteau (Brad Garrett), Rémy tries to live the life of a gourmet. Not appreciating his talents, his clan puts him to work sniffing for rat poison in their food.

Rémy and the rats flee the house when the resident, an old woman, discovers the colony. Rémy, separated from the others, floats in the storm drains to Paris on a cookbook by Gusteau, following the chef's image to his namesake restaurant, now run by former sous-chef Skinner (Ian Holm).

As Rémy watches from a skylight a young man with no culinary talent, Alfredo Linguini (Lou Romano), arrives with a letter of introduction from his recently deceased mother, and is hired on to do janitorial duties. Linguini spills a pot of soup and attempts to cover up his mistake by adding random ingredients. Upset, Rémy falls into the kitchen and attempts to fix the ruined soup rather than trying to escape. Linguini catches Rémy in the act, just as Skinner catches Linguini. In the confusion some of the soup has been served. To everyone's surprise, the soup is a success.

The kitchen's sole woman cook, Colette (Janeane Garofalo), convinces Skinner not to fire Linguini provided he can recreate the soup. Skinner orders him to take Rémy away, but he begins an alliance by which Rémy secretly directs Linguini in return for his protection. The two perfect a marionette-like arrangement by which Rémy tugs at Linguini's hair to control his movements and stays hidden under Linguini's toque blanche.

Skinner plies Linguini with vintage Château Latour in an unsuccessful attempt to discover the secret of his unexpected talents. The next morning, hung over and disheveled, Linguini nearly confides his secret to Colette. Desperately trying to stop Linguini, Rémy pulls his hair, making him fall on Colette, leading the two to kiss. They begin dating, leaving Rémy feeling abandoned. Meanwhile, Skinner learns after some sleuthing that, unknown to everyone, Linguini is in fact Gusteau's son and stands to inherit the restaurant. This would thwart Skinner's ambition to exploit Gusteau's image to market prepared frozen foods.

One night Rémy and his colony are reunited. While scrounging food Rémy discovers Gusteau's will which, after a chase by Skinner, he presents to Linguini. Linguini now owns the restaurant, fires Skinner, and becomes a rising star in the culinary world. After a falling out, Linguini decides he no longer needs Rémy, and Rémy retaliates by leading a kitchen raid for his rat colony. Linguini attempts to apologize to Rémy, only to discover and kick out his whole colony. Rémy feels guilty about hurting his friend, and refuses to join them in resuming the raid.

Things come to a head the night of a planned review by jaded food critic Anton Ego (Peter O'Toole). Linguini, unable to cook without the rat's guidance, admits his ruse to the staff when Rémy shows up, leading them all to walk out. Colette returns after thinking through Gusteau's motto, "Anyone can cook!" Django, inspired by his son's courage, returns with the entire rat colony to cook under Rémy's direction, while Linguini, discovering his true talent, waits tables on roller skates. Colette helps Rémy prepare ratatouille; Rémy's new recipe produces a dish so good that, in the climax of the film, a bite of it leads Ego to relive childhood memories of his mother. Ego asks to meet the chef but Colette insists he must wait until the rest of the diners have left. At the end of the service, Rémy and the rats are revealed. A changed man, Ego writes a glowing review, declaring that the chef at Gusteau's is the greatest chef in all of France.

In the denouement Gusteau's is closed by a health inspector, who finds the rats after being tipped off by Skinner. Ego loses his credibility and job when the public discovers he has praised a rat-infested restaurant. Everything is for the best, however; with Ego as investor and regular patron, Linguini, Colette, and Rémy open a successful new bistro called "La Ratatouille," which includes a kitchen and dining facilities for both rats and humans.

After the movie, we rushed to da Commercial road's tram station for tram. Cz Natalie need to go back city. Unfortunately, da last tram jz left. And we were so worried and ran to da train station. Its da fastest i ran in melb! Reli... Me, Evonne and Jeremy were so tired after the SPORTS!

But then when we call another TEAM who inspect for da tram @ High St oni we notice that there is still a last tram for that nite. Lucky Natalie. Then we walked to High St again to gather with da Tram Inspection TEAM.

Natalie and Tricia
Natalie Tricia and Evonne
Celeste, Evonne and Julia @ the tram stop.
Eskimo's look
Thats the end of Tuesday! Collapsed to da bed after back home.