Bulldog Walk Cycle

Rio

Rio comes out tomorrow, April 14, 2011. From the creators of Ice Age, Rio is a 3D computer animated film directed by Carlos Saldanha. There are many talented people doing the voice overs for the characters: Jesse Eisenberg (Social Network); Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada, Bride Wars); Rodrigo Santoro (Charlies Angels: Full Throttle); Bebel Gilberto (Brazilian pop singer); Jamie Foxx (Valentine's Day, Ray); Will.I.Am (Black Eyed Peas); Tracy Morgan (Death At A Funeral, Cop Out); Jake T. Austin (Go, Diego, Go!); Leslie Mann (Knocked Up, 17 Again); Jemaine Clement (Despicable Me); Jane Lynch (Glee, 40 Year Old Virgin, Role Models). Taking place in a jungle near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the movie is about a baby blue macaw who cannot fly, and watches all the other birds fly and sing. Along with a couple other birds, the macaw will be caged by smugglers and imported to Moose Lake, Minnesota during winter time. The box with the macaw is left on the street, and he ends up being found by a little girl, who names him Blu.

I really want to see this movie. Based on the previews, I think it will be a cute and funny movie.

Hop

I saw Hop the other day, and I have two words to describe it. ADORABLE & AWESOME. Seeing James Marsden in a children's movie was amazing because you are accustomed to seeing him in action/suspense/comedies. He's mostly well known for playing Cyclops in the X-Men movies. Also, another excellent factor was having Russell Brand do the voice of E.B. His English accent really added more character and personality to the rabbit. Also, the fact that E.B. could play the drums was an additional bonus. Russell Brand also made a small appearance in the movie as a stage director; and to hear him call himself handsome from E.B. the Rabbit's perspective was hilarious. Hugh Laurie (House, Stuart Little) was a good choice to do the voice of the Easter Bunny.

Overall, this movie was very good and it also had a lot of important lessons. The number one lesson was do what makes you happy. E.B.'s father kept pushing the fact that he was going to be the next Easter Bunny, but E.B. wanted to be in a band and play the drums; and his father did not understand that. Another lesson was to always be supportive of your children no matter how old they are. Fred (James Marsden) did not have a job, and his father (Gary Cole) constantly hassled him about it. That is not a good way to maintain a close relationship with your children. However, I highly recommend this movie to any and everyone.

Foamy The Squirrel

Foamy the Squirrel is a crude, rude, violent, disrespectful squirrel that does rants on various topics. Even though he curses more than the average person, and threatens mankind; unfortunately, some of the things that he says actually makes sense. It's just the way he says the stuff makes it seem worse than what it really is.

Foamy the Squirrel was created about 5 or 6 years ago. The main story behind it is Foamy lives with his owner Germaine, who is a 25 year old goth poet and does not care about society and what it thinks about her or what she does. As long as I have been watching Foamy, the only thing that I do not like about the cartoon is at times he refers to himself as "lord and master". Even though his main mission in life is world domination, that does not mean he has to refer to himself as a god. Pinky and the Brain tried to take over the world everyday; but, they never referred to themselves as such.

Besides that factor, Foamy is a very interesting character. However, I do not recommend children to watch this due to the profanity, slight nudity, sexual moments, etc. But he is a rather intelligent character.