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2009年12月11日金曜日

Movie Review-5 Groundhog Day

This is a romantic comedy movie. I think this movie is telling us to do something nice for people, and do not to be selfish or egotistic.

The main character is Phil Connor who is a weatherman. He isn’t nice to people because he thinks he is a star or something, and he acts like a star. Every year he has to go to Pennsylvania to cover an event, called Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day is a day when a groundhog comes and tells us that spring is coming soon. Phil hates the event and hates going to the town because it is the countryside. Of course he is not nice to the people in the town. In the last part of the movie, he falls in love with Rita, a woman who works with Phil, and tries to make her fall in love with him.

The basic story of this movie is that tomorrow doesn’t come to Phil. Phil spends the same day again and again. On February 2nd, Phil was staying in Pennsylvania for Groundhog Day, as usual. In the morning, the radio says that it is Groundhog Day, and Phil wakes up then goes to report the event. The next morning, Phil hears that radio say it’s Groundhog Day, today, and the same thing happens just like yesterday. At first, he does what he wants. He does many bad things, but after falls in love with Rita, he notices that doing bad things doesn’t make people or him happy.

In my case, even when I got things that I wanted, like clothes, shoes, or bags, I felt that I wanted more. Only getting things for myself still makes me feel like there is something missing. However when someone was pleased because of me, I would be really happy. I think everyone felt that, too. I looked back these few days if I had done something nice for people around me, and I couldn’t remember, so I will try to do something good for someone from today. This movie made me think about not little things, but really important things. (351 words)

Movie Review-4 Drumline

This movie tells us how precious friends are. In the movie, the character always helped each other when they are in trouble.
The main character in this movie was Devon. He had a genius for playing the drum, but he was also a problem child in the band. He is not used to listen to people’s advice. However he was always nice to his mother and his friends.

In the movie, Devon just entered a college called A&T. A&T is famous for a marching drum, but these years, A&T haven’t won Morris Brown which was a rival brass band team. Morris Brown plays pop music, and it has a high popularity among the listeners, but A&T doesn’t play pop music because Dr. Lee doesn’t like that, and he seeks for “real” music. Dr. Lee is kind of strict, but really nice director who thinks a lot for his students.
One day, Dr. Lee knew that Devon couldn’t read the music, and Dr. Lee made him study to be able to read the music. Devon couldn’t understand that Dr. Lee didn’t let him play the drum until Devon became to be able to read the music because he can play better than other teammates without the music. However, his girlfriend, Laila teaches Devon that sometimes he can’t do the things what he only want to do, and Devon also teaches Laila that she was just dancing to her parent’s tune, and sometimes she needs to do what she wants to do.
In the end of the story, Devon studies a lot to read the music with Sean who used to dislike Devon. Then they got to be friendly, and then made music together for next big competition. It was really good, and the year, they could win Morris Brown with the music.

At first, I didn’t like Devon because he was impudent and cocky. In fact, he was kind of that, but so nice to his friends. One time, he taught his friend how to play better really hard. I thought if I can do something really hard for other people.I got to imitate him! Also, the words that Laila and Devon said to each other were really important things, too. I know I should listen to people saying something for me, but sometimes I care too much about people around me, like my family or my friends. I learned many lessons from this movie.
You will not enjoy only the story but the music and the dance. (417 words)

Movie Review-3 Cars

When McQueen was going to California for a race called The Piston Cup, he was caught by a police car because he was driving too fast. Instead of putting him in jail, the judge made him fix the road in the town, Radiator Springs. The cars in Radiator Springs have a big problem. The problem is that they have no visitors because the stores and road are too old. The town isn’t even on the maps. That’s why McQueen was forced to fix the road there. Everyone, especially Sally, a blue Porsche, is trying to bring customers and trying to get the town back to it’s original feeling.

At first, McQueen hated being in the town, but he had to stay there few days to make the road better, and he practiced running faster while staying in the town. As he stayed in the town, he came to like the town because he drove to some nice place there with Sally. One more thing to make him interested in the town was Hudson Hornet. He had won The Piston Cup three times, and he was in the town! Before he came there, he didn’t like getting dirty or “rusty old cars”. However he changed his mind because he knew many nice “rusty old cars” in the town.

At the last part of the story, Radiator Springs got better because of McQueen, but he was taken back to The Piston Cup, so he had to leave the town. During the race, he couldn’t stop thinking about the days that he used to spend in the town. However I was so happy when the cars from Radiator Springs were supporting McQueen in the car race. McQueen didn’t win in the race, but he learned there are more important things than winning in the race. I was almost going to cry at the end of the race. I will show this movie to my kids. (322 words)

Movie Review-2 Mrs. Doubtfire

This is a really funny comedy movie. I think it tells us how precious our families are.


The main characters are Daniel Hillard, Miranda, and three children.
Daniel Hillard is Miranda’s husband and three children’s dad. He was a voice actor, but he was fired. He is not good at working, but really good at taking care of his children. He spends more than he earns. He loves his children and stays with them all day.
Miranda is Daniel’s wife. She is an interior decorator, and really good at working. She earns money for her family. When she gets home after working, the house is always messy because of Daniel and the children. Miranda was getting tired of cleaning.
Miranda and Daniel’s children’s names are Lydia, Chris, and Natalie. They like their mom, but they love their dad more than their mom.


One day, Miranda gets a phone call from police, and goes back to her home to see what is happening. There are many animals inside and outside of the house. The music is really loud and of course the room was so messy. Daniel was having a birthday party for his son, Chris. Then Miranda had to clean the house again. Daniel always messes the house, and Miranda always cleans it up. Miranda can’t stand Daniel any more. So they got divorced and children stayed with Miranda because Daniel doesn’t have any job. Daniel can’t stay with his children, so he was so sad. However Daniel got an idea to spend more time with the children. He knew that Miranda is looking for a nice person who can take care of the children while she was at work, so Daniel introduced himself as Mrs. Doubtfire and pretended to be a really nice old woman. No one recognizes Daniel, and they like Mrs. Doubtfire.
Everything seemed to be okay somehow, but there were still some problems around him…


It was not only a funny story, but also good to think about family. When Daniel and his children are separated, they seemed very sad. I can’t imagine what it is like to be separated from my family, either. When people marry, they love each other so much, but it is difficult to keep that feeling. These days, many people get divorced. I know that sometimes it makes things better, but it not really nice for their children. However I was kind of glad that even thoughthey got divorced, Daniel still loves his children a lot and tries to do many things for them.
Do you remember the first day Mrs. Doubtfire comes to take care of the children? The children don’t like Mrs. Doubtfire, yet. When they go to upstairs to do their homework, they say, “If dad were here…” or something, and Mrs. Doubtfire says, “I’m here,” with a little voice. It was my favorite scene. I really felt his devotion to his children. (488 words)