Surf's Up

2007
Columbia Pictures
PG


A 17-year-old penguin named Cody Maverick (Shia LaBeouf) from Shiverpool, Antarctica, who admires a pro surfer, "Big Z" (Jeff Bridges), goes to an island with a bunch of surfers, including Chicken Joe (Jon Heder), whom he befriends, along with a sleek penguin named Lani Aliikai (Zooey Deschanel) to become a great surfer, where he also meets Z himself.
Though little more than a feature-length surfing newscast, it manages to be enjoyable and funny, with great characteristics. Even documentaries are funny, especially the ones with Arnold, the little penguin who despises the big, rude penguin surfer, Tank Evans (Diedrich Bader).

Wanted

2008
Universal Pictures
R
1/2

Young Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy), a troubled and unconfident man who is also the son of a professional assassin is picked up by a mysterious woman named Fox (Angelina Jolie), and trained with the help of team leader Sloan (Morgan Freeman).
Starts out with crazy training business, then turns into an exciting, compelling, and thrilling action film that turns everything into things that make total sense. The loom deciding who should be killed is pretty ludicrous, but the film is still a crackling ride which is beyond hard to even match.

Titanic

1997
20th Century Fox/Paramount Pictures
PG-13
1/2

When treasure hunters find a drawing of a naked woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), the elderly Rose tells them of her life on the Titanic as a 17-year-old on her way home back to America. On the ship, she meets Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a poor immigrant and artist, and they fall in love and are seperated as the Titanic strikes an iceberg and starts to sink on April 14, 1912.
Astonishing and emotional romance story is deliberately enjoyable, and while it may be very long at 194 minutes, everything is very thorough. More people have gone to the movies to see this than any other movie; and, boy, did they make a great choice! First film since BEN-HUR to win 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture.

CaddyShack

1980
Orion Pictures
R


A Roman Catholic named Danny Noonan (Michael O'Keefe) who works as a caddy at a country club tries to get a college scholarship from the owner, Judge Smails (Ted Knight), a pompous rich man who usually acts way in over his head. Meanwhile, one of Smails' companions, Ty Webb (Chevy Chase), shows Danny how to become the ball. Loudmouth Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield) bets money on shots Smails takes, and assistant greenskeeper Carl Spackler (Bill Murray) is encountered with a gopher (Mr. Gopher) and is starting a war to welcome him.
This comedy does have a few problems, such as a bunch of random things over and over, and characters who sometimes act stupid (and often funny), but this also one of the most enjoyable of its kind. At the time of this film's release, a lot of people hated this, now many consider it a classic.