Based on Toys Into Live-Action Movies


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These live-action movies and TV movies are based on the classic toys from 1980s to present.

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Masters of the Universe (1987,  PG)
Masters of the Universe
I used to play He-Man toys when I was a kid so in this live-action film was okay with lots of action. This turns out to be another Star Wars rip-off.
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Warriors of Virtue (1997,  PG)
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Warriors of Virtue 2: The Return to Tao (2002,  PG)
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Samantha - An American Girl Holiday (2004,  Unrated)
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Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (2005,  Unrated)
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Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front (2006,  Unrated)
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Transformers (2007,  PG-13)
Transformers
Excellent special effects of two robotic clans (Autobots and Decepticons) in their transform of any types of transport and the battle in Los Angeles - really exciting. I like two Autobots, the leader Optimus Prime and Bumblebee as well as Autobots are also so funny by hiding around in and out a house.
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Bratz: The Movie (2007,  PG)
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery (2008,  G)
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009,  PG-13)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
This sequel of alien robots is plenty of funny between human and robots and quite good action sequences, but little confused with some scenes edited. Anyway I enjoyed seeing the beautiful and sexy Megan Fox in her sexy-looking scenes - whoo!
This long 150-minute run time has three or four new Gremlin-esque ones that chitter and skitter about like the first movie's Frenzy - and few get more than a scene before director Michael Bay's attention flits elsewhere. Even The Fallen (an Emperor figure to Megatron's Darth Vader), who can hurl tanks around with the aid of his jagged staff, is only blandly nefarious.
The sequel tries harder to be funny but is actually less so, despite Shia LaBeouf working some early new-kid-on-campus schtick, Ronin Wilson amusing in a single scene as a rock-star astronomy teacher, and John Turturro doing an entertaining reprise of MIB wannabe Simmons ("What you're about to see is top secret: do not tell my mother"). This is a film that doesn't know where to stop - even comic-relief characters get their own comic-relief characters, like the offensively irritating Twins who bicker in hip-hop slang, or Wheels, a turnout Decepticon who, of course, talks like a 1930s screen gangster.
What saves it, just about, are the effects. At times the frame is so packed with whirring cogs and twirling cranks that you could replicate the effect by staring at the innards of a domestic appliance, but when these CG moto-men from another world duke it out, the images are often so screwy it's impossible to do anything but sit and stare.
The Shanghai-set opening sequence is lunatic fun, with Optimus Prime leaping onto the face of a colossal, rampaging unicycle and ordering it to "Pull over". While Prime's later forest face-off against three Decepticons suffers by comparison to a recent film's spar between a big ape and a trio of dinosaurs, there are more flawlessly rendered money shots in the last 40 minutes alone than in a dozen less ambitious blockbusters.
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G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009,  PG-13)
G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra
I actually enjoyed this action flick based on the Hasbro toy action figure like Transformers. The action is unbelievable, non-stop, breathless, and requires a total suspension of disbelief. These G.I. Joe and Cobra characters does remind me correctly in the set of toys when I was 10 to 13 and based in the cartoon series in the late 80s. But to be honest, some are not that I haven't recognised.
I like the incredible action scenes in Paris and underwater are more of a roller-coaster ride, Fast, furious and just fun. Between the Joes and Cobra seemed so familiar in the version of Star Wars: Episode I-III.
Performances are what should be expected from this kind of movie. Not particularly strong, but not bad either. The standout is Sienna Miller, who is almost unrecognizable with black hair and dark glasses. (She looks really hot, though.) She seems to be having lots of fun playing the bad guy, and thus manages to create a very memorable and entertaining character. Rachel Nichols is cute and believable as Scarlett, and Marlon Wayans is great as Ripcord; he can be funny and dorky from time to time, but because he's also a pretty good soldier and because he's never too goofy, one can take his character (kinda) seriously. And I like Ray Park the best in his amazing performance as the masked and mute Snake Eyes as well as his marital arts and abilities. See if you can spot an uncredited Brandan Fraser as well!

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  1. jeanergirl
    jeanergirl posted 163 days ago

    some good movis