Movie Review : Up! & Ice Princess

NAME: NURUL NATHASSYA HUSSNA BINTI ANUAR

MATRIC NO: 174467

ICE PRINCESS

CAST : Michelle Trachtenberg, Hayden Panettiere, Kim Cattral, Joan Cusack, Trevor Blumas

In my point of view, Ice Princess had given me a lot of impact; especially as a student. Basically, Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg) is a physics geek, which she would took every single thing into physics matters. But, in other different dimension, she got a hidden talent which is ice skating. Her graceful movements while ice skating would totally wowed us. Despite of being a total genius, she prefer to be a professional ice skater. How could a physics geek that had a total complicated brain able to dance so nice like she got a music box on her head? Thus, I'll discuss about the top two most affected scene to me; the scene of work as hard as you can and go for your dream.

First and foremost, for we know that when Casey got a big argument with Tina Harwood (Kim Cattrall), she began to stop skating at the ice skating centre. Since her passion towards ice skating was never fade, she keep practising it. The different thing was only the place, she was not skating on the real ice skate arena but on a frozen lake near her house. From this scene we know that nothing can prevent you to do what you like as long as you work hard so much for it. The most adorable part was when Teddy (Trevor Blumas) came with his ice polish truck and polished the lake so that Casey could skate better. In nowadays world, I bet there will be only one in a million man that can be as sweet as Teddy.

In fact, to be true, everyone's dream would never come true. So did Casey. Her mother (Joan Cusack) expected her to be the perfect child with a great grade and studied in a great institution. There was a scene where Casey finally ruined her Harvard interview just for achieving her dream; being a great ice skater. Through this I learnt that once we got a dream and we really have the passion for it, we just need to keep aiming and go for it. It is our life and do not let others to indoctrinate it.

UP!

CAST: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai and Bob Peterson.

After watching this movie, there is only one thing that I want to say, this movie is so supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Up!, an American animation movie directed by Pete Docter is a total interest-captured movie I had ever watched.

In my point of view, I love the most the scene where Carl Fredricksen met his life partner, Ellie, when they were just so young and ended with a lovely marriage. They got the same idol and the same dream but Ellie only made it halfway since she got problem with her health and died. Though she could not even give Carl a baby, Carl never thought that it was a problem. He helped Ellie to grab back her lost cute smile and they planned to a have a better life. Can you imagine how lucky Ellie was for having that kind of hubby? This shows me that true love will never break apart till death come.

Despite of the romantic stuffs, another thing that wowed me so much is when Carl was so determined to move his house by using thousands of helium balloons and travelled to Paradise Fall; a place where his late wife wish to build their life there. It was so funny to see an old man that have to travel by his house with uninvited scout child, Russell. The journey was getting complicated mostly caused by that little boy.

In a nutshell, I can reward this movie with double thumbs up for the quirkiness. It was such a beautiful story that taught us a lot. Learn to love someone sincerely, help everyone and try to reach to the top of your dream.