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TMNT Turtles in Time Re-Shelled- A 3 Minute Review by Charlie U.

Yay, video game review.

Do you remember Turtles in time for Super Nintendo and the Arcade? If you are old enough to remember now imagine the arcade game with PlayStation 2-esk graphics. For those who do not remember (or are too young) Turtles in time was a 2D side-scrolling beat'em up game (my favorite video game genre :-)). In the game you are able to select from each of the four turtles and you beat up on an endless amount of foot soldiers, and goons, until the end of a stage where you fight a boss, and ultimately the Turtle's arch enemy, Shredder. Now this game is a "Re-shelled" version of the ARCADE game, meaning less bosses, bad guys, levels, and the watering down of the jump kick, and no back flips. Some may feel that's fine, because that means its a true remake of the game, however I view it as an easy way to speed up a video game process, and make money with less effort. The Difference's between the original arcade version, and the re-shelled version is graphics. The game gets a graphic "upgrade" (now in 3D) which makes it look like a game that was released 7 years ago instead of the original 17, not good and could have been better. Besides that everything is identical. Unfortunately this hinders the game, because it can be beaten easily in one sit in, therefore killings its replay value. The game does supposed on-line play, but that's never as fun as playing with a group beside you (which luckily you can). "New" options are a survival mode, which is the same as the arcade mode just with one life, there is also a quick play mode where you can play a stage you have already completed, neither of these ad legit replay value to the game.

Overall, I would tell everyone to IGNORE IT. If you own the original, simply just replay it. If you are new to TMNT, and have Xbox Live then I would suggest getting TMNT Arcade 1989, it is half the price of this game and has similar features. If you do not own an Xbox360 or you can't handle pixelated goodness, then pick up one of the newer TMNT beat'em ups (with arguably better graphics) for PS2/Xbox, which you could also probably get for a fraction of this price of this game.

Hod Rod- A 3 minute review by Charlie U.

Usually I don't mess movie with reviews so bare with me. I apologize if it is not up to par with the other movie reviews up here....Hot Rod is a 2007 comedy that stars Andy Samberg, probably most known as a cast member on SNL, and a member of the Lonely Island. Without giving much away (not that there is much to give away), the movie is about a young stuntman (Samberg), and his crew attempting to raise money to help the stunt-man's father get surgery. The story itself, like most of the gags in the movie, are basic and pointless. The humor in the movie is mostly dumb humor, and at times feels like a really long skit from the Lonely Island (which makes sense considering it was directed by the same person). If stupidity and dumb humor are not your forte, then i would avoid the movie. However, if you have the ability to "turn off your brain" sort to speak (which i did) there is a good chance you will enjoy the movie, especially considering its relatively short running time. The movie mostly delivers quiet laughs, though there was a part or two where i laughed out loud.

Overall, I would recommend you WATCH IT, but ONLY IF YOU CAN SHUT OFF YOUR BRAIN. Borrow it from a friend or catch it on cable/satellite/fios because while I may have enjoyed it, the cast of the movie (most notable, Will Arnett) have been a lot funnier.

Green Lantern: First Flight

In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power... Green Lantern's light!

Green Lantern: First Flight is the newest installment of DC comics straight to DVD hour length movies. This story is big! Like all Green Lantern stories it takes place in space. Oa mostly and its the story of the first Adventure of Green lantern Hal Jordan who received the ring from dieing lantern Abin Sur. Once Hal has the ring of power he travels to Oa to get acquainted with his new co-workers and the Guardians. Sinerstro is a Green Lantern and if your a fan of GL you know where this story is gonna go.

First of all this movie looks amazing, in fact i might pick up the blu-ray cause id love to see it in HD. The story is also very well done and i like the fact that its PG-13 so they get away with a lot more as far as language and violence. The action is great and even has a very special appearance by my favorite lantern Ch'p. The voice acting is fantastic and the voice actors are ones of note as well (Michael Madson, Christopher Meloni, Trisha Helfer, and Red Forman himself Kurtwood Smith). This movie is really good and definitely worth a watch. If your a Green Lantern fan you really do want to pick this up on Blu-Ray cause it just looks amazing.My only concern about this movie stems not from this movie at all but the fact that i have no idea how they are gonna pull off the live action movie with Ryan Reynolds, its gonna be an expensive movie and I don't know if Hal Jordon has the fan base for a big opening weekend but i've been wrong before.

Hopefully we get a lot more of these movies cause there fun to watch and since Justice League Unlimited is off the air we don't get these awesome DC stories as much as we'd like. The next one is line is Superman/Batman: Public Enemies which as a Superman fan i cant wait to see.



So until next time I've been me and you have been awesome for reading thank you.

Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince

Harry potter is a good story I know how it started I know how it ends. But I still get excited to see the movies when they come out. Even though The Order of The Phoenix was less than brilliant I just feel like I gotta see everything cause I’m such a fan of the story.

To start off I’d like to say the bad in this film slightly out weight the goods. So I did like this movie even though it felt like it was missing a lot. It felt like a cheese sandwich who doesn’t like cheese between two pieces of bread. Not I, I love it. But I’m always like you know what would make this better Turkey and ham you know meat and that’s what this movie lacks it felt like they scooped out the meaty bits and gave us a what was left, the base story without a lot to hold it together. It felt like this movie was basically a golf tee and “The Deathly Hallows” is the ball. So indeed this story is a set up for the next book (2 movies). So it shouldn’t be a surprise what this flick was. I dug the story, I dug this movie and I’m excited on how the next couple movies look. But this movie wasn’t my favorite (Prisoner of Azkaban) but wasn’t my least either (The Order of the Phoenix) it’ll get another watch when it hits stores but it won’t go down as the best. Which is weird that the last couple were both directed by David Yates. Maybe the next couple of them will be better third and fourth times the charm perhaps. This movie is a definite watch for Potter fans but if you haven’t seen the others watch those before checking this one out. Thanks for reading.

Warehouse 13

When I saw the commercial for this show I was excited I wanted to see a new show for the summer and it looked like an awesome premise. Two government agents sent to a hidden warehouse facility that holds some of the words most famous and unique items (ex. Houdini’s wallet, Lewis Carolls looking glass). The show is exec. Produced by Drew Z. Greenburg who worked on Buffy and some other shows I’m into so I thought I’d give it a try.

The pilot revolved around two secret service agents tapped by a secret sect of the government to retrieve these “special” items for cataloging. The agents also are not really happy about their situation protecting the president one minute getting a magic book the next. So as interested as they appear in finding these artifacts they also feel like their talents are being wasted. Anyway…….

The show has a very solid pieces but they don’t fit together right and frankly I would love to like this show but I don’t, I don’t hate it either. in fact my in deference towards it is a first for me. I usually hate everything. At this point the show has aired 2 episodes. The two hour pilot which felt like a millenia and a stand alone episode. This show is……..meh. That’s all I can say. I will give it a few more chances cause I want to like this show but its just so uninteresting. It might be the characters, it might be the story. I just don’t know. I don’t know if I will get through the whole season. Maybe I have to wait till season 2 for it to get good. I don’t have that kind of patience.

Warehouse 13 airs right before the scifi drama E.C.W. On Tuesdays at 9pm on the SyFy channel. Check out meh at its best. For now I’m outty 5000. Thanks for reading.

A Conversation

A random conversation between my cousin and me.

Charlie U: There is this girl who was singing. And she said her voice is a cross between fergie and jesus....i almost died.

Rafael U: lol what on earth would that sound like?

Charlie U: She sings fair...ly bad

Rafael U: Jesus wasn't known for his singing. And Fergie is but she's just ok at it so for once its the Jesus that brings her ratio down weird.

Charlie U: You know what is weird that shes kinda actually accurate

Rafael U: That is weird. Makes me re-think life. So when someone sings and they're bad. Don't say they need Jesus cause it'll make the singing worse. Life better, Singing worse. Hmmm

Charlie U: I heard Jesus was a sick beatboxer.

Rafael U: That's well documented and a awesome water skier. No boat needed amazing. Its all in there toward the end of the bible after the index.

Charlie U: I could have swore it was after the special introduction written by moses.

Rafael U: I got the dollar store version the first book is called "The Old Ass Testament"

Charlie U: Hah. Must be lutheran

Rafael U: It is. It also comes with a Luther Vandross cd.

Charlie U: I crack jokes like that to *** all the time.

Rafael U: Ooh is she Lutheran?

Charlie U: Yeh. And her fam is big on vandros too

Rafael U: Awesome tell her to get me a copy of limited edition King Labron James Bible.

Charlie U: lol