Spiderwick, 10000 BC & Horton

We are avid movie watchers....mm..no...no..i'd like to rephrase... we are...addicted movie watchers. Addiction, we would love to continue. Our family has a varied taste and interest which leaves us watching almost 60% of the movies released any time. We enjoy anything from "Juno" to "Golden compass". But with a growing toddler, we often end up watching stuff related to her in bigscreen and others in DVD.

The three movies we were looking forward, happen to be released in consecutive months; Spiderwick chronicles, 10,000 BC, Horton hears a who!.


Spiderwick created a great expectation in us, so we ended up watching it in IMAX. Well, commenting from an animators perspective, i would applaud it.... write pages about it...but hey!.. not all well presented visual effects (Vfx) movies captured peoples interest right?.... I have not read the original book, so i may not be able to comment on the screen play. But i would say, my daughter was amused (bit scared sometimes!)...i was/am still, captured by the flower fairies. In fact it was this shot in the trailer that attracted me to the movie. I cherished nothing but that.


Speaking about 10,000 BC .....a friend & my brother hyped it, as how well it is doing in India. The movie started mysterious and arose expectations with a mammoth hunt. But i would say nothing fancied me except the mammoth part. The saber tooth advt. in all posters, does come only in a couple of shots. The second saber shoot, when it appears in a dry land, might have been done better, with less grains and scaling. The same flaws of "Aslan" in narnia.

After coming out with a "huh" for the above movies, we watched "horton" unplanned, with no expectations. WoW, i had a lot of hearty laughs....i know each phrase of the movie...but something kept us expecting till the end. They have done justice to "suessian" style of animation with characters that have funny noses and body.


There were a lot of "well-dones" ranging from mayor's introduction, Horton crossing the bridge to kids imitating Horton. All this without loosing the essence of the book!. Now thats what i call a good animated movie. I would definitely give a standing ovation. I blve., anyone watching it would love it too.