Napapiirin sankarit (Lapland odyssey) is a finnish comedy film. The film is directed by Dome Karukoski and it was published in 2010.

The story tells about a man who doesn´t get anythig produce. Finally his girlfriend gets tired of her lazy boyfriend. The man must bring digibox or his girlfriend is going to leave him. He and two friend of his go to buy a digibox. But they must first earn money for the digibox. Here begins amazing adventure with all kinds of funny incidents.

The actors were succeeded to keep their characters plausible through the film. Viewer understand easily the nature of the characters. It was for example  fun to watch how desperate they were when they try to get that money for digibox. It seemed very plausible. Actors weren´t so well-known but it didin´t hampered.  Great work by actors!

Special effects weren´t so much but enough. It´s easy to notice that the movie hasn´t  been made in Hollywood.  Special effects aren´t so realistic compared to effects which is made in Hollywood. But this doesn´t mean that special effects were bad. Those were still quite good. In particular noise of special effects sounded realistics. For example it sounded really realistic when the car went off the road.

Soundtrack was Kristiina Wheeleer´s song, ”Kiitos kun muistit”. It was adabted to the film very well. Other songs were also well chosen. All the twelve songs fit into their places. All  the songs were made by Finnish bands.

It´s nice to see that here in Finland know how to make movies. This movie was the best Finnish film in my opinion. The reason why I liked the movie so much was that it was funny and it was also a good plot. Lapland´s beautiful nature is shown on the film nicely. I could recommend this film for all.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. What a name. What a movie.

Monty Python, despite the singular name, is actually a comedy group consisting of six comedians and/or actors. The Holy Grail is by no means the first (or last) project of the group: by the time they had already produced a TV series and a movie. The film was released in 1975 and is still known to people in our current generation. Making a humorous movie that upholds it’s charm through decades is truly an achievement to be proud of. The latest re-release is from 2012, when the movie was updated to Blu-Ray. The movie has also often been ranked to be one the best comedies ever.

The genre is easy to identify. Even the preface of the movie is humorous and it’s not exactly hard to giggle within the first few minutes. As a matter of fact, if you can actually find most of the jokes in the movie you’ll be laughing half the time, guaranteed. Dark humor is littered all over the movie and it’s not all obviously visible and thus understanding some of the jokes makes it all the more fulfilling. The forementioned multilayered humor that works across generations makes it all the more interesting.

The soundtrack is interesting. The actual voices of the actors are lacking in many places due to the technology available at the time. The soundtrack, however is not very astonishing. The songs used in the movie are not all up to par but none exactly lack any certain qualities. They’re just borderline average, just as many soundtrack after the Holy Grail.

The special effects are quite impressive considering the time of it’s production. The animations inbetween the scenes are better than the average animation at the time and the actual effects, e.g. Explosions are used both in exactly the right places and in some scenes overused to emphasize the ridiculousness. Overall the SFX are very well done, although not quite up to modern standards for quite obvious reasons. The movie also breaks the fourth wall on a few occasions, ridiculing itself as well as the audience.

The cast is not really anything to look at besides the members of Monty Python. The whole movie was performed and voiced by about 15 people which isn’t that many.

All in all the movie is brilliant. The charm doesn’t seem to wither even with time and the Holy Grail is always entertaining to watch. If you haven’t had the chance to see it I strongly advice you to pick it up from anywhere you can. This is a movie you don’t want to miss, even after 38 years.

The Perks Of Being a Wallflower is a 2012 movie directed and written by Stephen Chbosky starring Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller and Emma Watson. It is based on Chbosky’s epistolary book of the same name.

Charlie (Lerman) has just started his freshman year of highschool. The events of Charlie’s first year are depicted through a set of letters he writes to a friend who (it is let to understand) no longer, or never existed.

At first, Charlie has difficulty making any friends and talking to anyone, but his English teacher notices Charlie’s aptitude for English literature and starts to give him books to read.

Soon though, Charlie befriends two seniors, Patrick (Miller) and his step-sister Sam (Watson) towards whom he developes a crush. One night they take him to a friend’s party, where Charlie unknowingly eats a cannabis brownie. Being high, he tells Sam that his best friend shot himself merely months ago. Sam tells this to Patrick and they and all of their friends welcome Charlie as a wallflower.

At a Christmas party at Sam and Patrick’s house, Sam kisses Charlie just as friends leaving Charlie crushed and getting him high on LSD at a New Year’s party after seeing Sam there with her boyfriend. Charlie then leaves the party alone, starts seeing things from his past and passes out in the snow.

After New Year’s Charlie starts, rather reluctantly due to his feeling for Sam, seeing their friend, Mary Elizabeth. Charlie is unhappy in this relationship, but can’t break up with her either, being afraid he’ll hurt her feelings. Things end worse than anyone would’ve thought  though, when at a game of spin-the-bottle Charlie is dared to kiss the prettiest girl in the room, and instead of kissing Mary Elizabeth, he kisses Sam.

His friends then ’desert’ him and Charlie starts seeing traumatic things from his past again. He gets his friends back, after beating off a couple of guys at the school cafeteria because they were beating Patrick.

After the school year is over, Sam breaks up with her boyfriend and she and Charlie sleep together. But immediately after Sam and Patrick leave for college, leaving Charlie feeling abandoned. The things from his past come to haunt him even worse and Charlie trys to kill himself. He is then hospitalised for the summer, Charlie having to have therapy sessions.

When released from the hospital (and feeling a lot better) and starting his sophomore year, Patrick and Sam come to visit him and Charlie knows that even though they left town, his friends didn’t leave forever.

Charlie is the youngest of three, just starting high school. He has had a very traumatic past: his aunt and favourite person in the whole world died in a car crash when Charlie was very little. She was getting his birthday present at the time, so Charlie blames her death on himself. He started seeing thing and he was getting ”bad”. How, the movie does not specifically tell.

Sam is a senior at Charlie’s high scool and a step-sister of Patrick. She and Charlie become good friends, they even develop a crush on each other but Sam denies it well. Sam has a boyfriend, with whom she seems happy, but after her graduation it is revealed that the boyfriend had been cheating on her with several other girls. They then break up and Sam gets together with Charlie. Emma Watson depicts beautifully Sam’s rainbow of emotions.

Patrick is also a senior at Charlie’s high school and Sam’s step-brother. Patrick is dating Brad, one of the school ”cool guys”, in secret because Brad doesn’t want to tell anyone he’s gay. Brad’s father, however, finds the two boys in his house together and beats Brad infront of Patrick. The next day at school Brad calls Patrick ”faggot” which results in a fist fight. Patrick is a good hearted young man, who doesn’t want anyone to feel excluded or bad about themselves. He’s good-spirited and he always has a joke in him (mostly about the schools teachers).

One of the topics of the film is music. Sam and Charlie have an uncannily similar taste in music and the soundtrack consists of some of the songs they listen to. It is very fitting to Charlie’s, or the people surrounding him, mood. The bands whose songs are played in the movie are mostly 80’s and 90’s bands and they tell really well about who Charlie is.

All in all, the movie was a beautiful story of friendships (found and lost), the trauma of loss and mental illness.

Pulp Fiction is a crime film released in 1994 and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film is known for its brilliant dialogues, ironic humor, violence, nonlinear storyline and pop culture references. Pulp Fiction was nominated for seven Oscars.
The film connects the interesting storylines of different crime related people of Los Angeles. Considerable screen time is devoted to monologues and conversations between the characters that reveal their senses of humor and perspectives on life. The film’s title refers to the crime comics and novelty of early 20th century. All the events in the film relate to each other and they aren’t shown in chronological order, for example in the beginning of the film Vega and Winnfield walk into a bar wearing clothes they got from Winnfield’s friend Jimmie at the end of the film. Viewer has to be alert for the whole film or the storyline might seem a little strange. Pulp Fiction displays a lot of brutal violence and drug use and drug overdosing and a scene where mob boss Marcellus gets raped by two guys and Butch, who was also captured by the same guys, returns to save him by slicing the other guy open with a Katana-sword.
Main characters in this movie are hired hitmen Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) who work for the mob boss Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), Marcellus’ wife Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) and a boxer called Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis). Casting in this film is spot on, I would give special credit to Rhames and Jackson for their unbelievable performances. Tarantino has a few actors that he likes to use in his films who also feature in Pulp Fiction, for example Tim Roth, who also played in the Reservoir Dogs (1992), Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs), Uma Thurman, who played the leading role in the Kill Bill-movies. Tarantino usually has a small role in his own movies, in Pulp Fiction he played Jimmie, Jules’ innocent friend who helped The Wolf (Keitel), Vincent and Jules to clear mess caused by Vincent’s accidental shooting.
Like every Tarantino movie, Pulp Fiction has an amazing soundtrack. Dick Dale’s “Misirlou” plays during the opening credits. Tarantino chose surf music as the basic musical style for the film, but not for it’s association with surf culture as he has later said. The soundtrack album, “Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction”, was released along with the film in 1994. The album peaked on the Billboard 200-chart at number 21.
Pulp Fiction quickly became regarded as one of the most significant films of it’s era and has become a legend in pop culture ever since.

Written by aseilori4

Ice Age is a animated movie released on march 15, 2002.

The film is directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, the screenplay of film is done by Michael Berg and the story is written by Michael J. Wilson.

The most successful voice actors of the film are, Ray Romano (Manfred), Jogn Leguizamo (Sid), Denis Leary (Diego), Goran Visnjic (Soto) and Jack Black (Zeke). Best voiceplay is in my opinion made by Denis Leary.

Ice Age’s theme is surprisingly set on during the ice age, where a sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and a saber-toothed tiger named Diego are forced to become unlikely heroes. The three reluctantly come together when they have to return a human child to its father while braving the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age.

Characters of the movie are as said above, Sid: a clumsy, annoying, slow moving, fast-talking and unpopular sloth. Diego who is a sarcastic sabretooth tiger who makes everyone watching the film smile. Manfred ”Manny” is a woolly mammoth who can be serious and emotional, but is otherwise caring and friendly.Scrat is a saber-toothed squirrel who is obsessed with collecting acorns, constantly putting his life in danger to obtain and defend them. He has his own stories in the film, independent of the main plot, which are parallel with the journeys of the other main characters, causing them to interact with him at times.

The films soundtrack is called ”Send Me on My Way” is written by Liz Berlin, John Buynak, Jim DiSpirito, Jim Donovan, Michael Glabicki, Patrick Norman and Jenn Wertz. The soundtrack is performed by band ”Rusted Root” which is in courtesy of ”The Island Def Jam Music Group”. The soundtrack is quite awesome fitting to the movie. It’s kind of country stylish on beginning of the movie, but on end it gets bit of sad.

Ice Age become a huge success right after it’s release which by years has leaded it to get four sequel’s and will in future, most likely get more of them.

Written by Linda