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Horton Heard A Who...

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I went to see Horton Hears A Who ... The imaginative elephant Horton hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community which thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help. Horton Hears a Who reunites Bruce Almighty co-stars Jim Carrey and Steve Carell as the eponymous elephant and the Mayor of Who-ville respectively. It's all CG with a familiar voice from CBS Sunday Morning (Charles Osgood) as the narrator. I wasn't planning to see Horton, but, all of a sudden the family wanted to go for a drive down to Pat's Steaks . After a quick peek at the movie listings, I determined that we could make the 9:10pm showing with time to spare, if we drove slow enough. It took a good half hour to make our way to South Philly. We stuffed our faces with steaks, fries and sodas and arrived at the theater around 8:40. We picked up some popcorn and some sodas and camped

Appleseed Ex Machina...

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I picked up the Special Edition of Appleseed Ex Machina ... Deunan and Briareos are both partners and lovers. As members of ESWAT, the elite forces serving Olympus, they are deployed everywhere trouble strikes. The two fighters find their partnership tested in a new way by the arrival of Tereus, who uncannily resembles Briareos before the wartime injuries that led to his becoming a cyborg. At the same time, Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack. Cyborg terrorism, deadly nanotech zealots, and rioting citizens are just some of the threats that Deunan must contend with as she fights to save Olympus! I've seen the previews and it looks like the character animation is MUCH better than the previous Appleseed movie. This, the second  Appleseed  movie, picks up the story where the first  Appleseed  movie left off and the character animation is MUCH better than the previous Appleseed movie. Although, the second Appleseed movie release in the series is a worthy addition, I still pr