Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

Dylan Dog is a private investigator just like any other P.I. handling jobs like missing pets, catching the wife/husband cheating on the spouse and etc. He however was not doing this normal P.I. stuff in the past. He is the appointed investigator to handle business for the undead. Yes, you read that right, undead like vampires, werewolves and zombies. Something happened in the past that made him stayed out of the business of the undead.

Not until a mysterious murder happened and that the murdered victim's daughter hire Dylan to investigate the murder. At first Dylan is not going to take the case but something happened and he takes on the case. He have to fight off vampires, werewolves and do business with zombies.

That was my summary of the plot, don't want to give too much and spoil the movie for you. Dylan Dog (Brandon Routh of Superman Returns). I didn't watch Superman Returns so not sure about his performance in that movie but he's kind of "kayu" in this movie. He does make some sarcastic joke but he just lack the charisma like Brandon Fraser.

The client, Elizabeth (Anita Briem). Well, she's okay. Just okay.

Dylan uses some ancient tools to investigate case of the undead.

What good does a hero P.I. do without a sidekick comic relief. Dylan's sidekick Gabriel (Peter Stormare whom also starred in Superman Returns as Jimmy Olsen) gave this movie a good boost. Without him, this movie might be quite boring.

The vampire showing his true form. Hmm..reminds me of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Some of the actions sequence are quite nice but I was dissapointed by the final boss fight. It's just like that. Yupe, I was thinking,"Just like that?" Ah, well, if you miss those good old P.I. movie with the narrations done by the lead himself, like Dick Tracy. Then this movie help to give you a fix of craving for those P.I. movie.

Rating: 6/10

Watch the trailer of Dylan Dog: Dead of Night in HD. Opens in Malaysian cinemas on 9th June 2011.

MyView: X-Men: First Class

It's been a while now that I haven't write a movie review. Yesterday I watched X-Men: First Class when it officially premiere in Malaysia's cinemas. Just couldn't hold myself to wait any longer after reading such rave review from Eyeris or should I say after reading his not a review post on X-Men: First Class.

Eric and Charles with their new recruits

True enough. It's a great X-Men movie. The previous 3 should have been done this way. Yes, it's better than the previous 3 X-Men movies even without Wolverine in it, well he (Hugh Jackman) did make a cameo appearance.

Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) is quite funny. Eric Lenhsherr aka Magneto is cool but quite a sad character. So, there's this group of mutant villains led by Sebastion Shaw which is portrayed very good by the ever cool Kevin Bacon. Although there are no Storm and Night Stalker here but two of the villains working for Shaw has the power similar to Storm (Riptide) and Night Stalker (Azazel). Their parents? The partner in crime with Shaw is non other than Emma Frost (January Jones).

You gotta love Charles Xavier

Charles Xavier worked with his friend Eric with the help of the CIA covert operation unit starts to recruit mutants out there. Alex Summers (Havoc), Angel (I prefer if it's renamed Fairy), Banshee, and Darwin joined as new recruits. While Henry McCoy (Beast) and Raven (Mystique) were already with the CIA and Charles.

Not gonna spoiled the plot here for you all. This X-Men movie is by far the best and I think there will be a sequel. Of course, the original X-Men yellow uniform is still the best. I came out from the cinema craving for more X-Men movie of this kind. Hopefully there will really be sequel. Well done Matthew Vaughn.

Rating: 9.5/10

Deducted 0.5 because I don't like what they did with Angel.

Hong Kong Disneyland

It took me this long to write about my trip to Hong Kong Disneyland is because I all the photos that I took here when my digital camera was pick pocketed during my visit to Ocean Park the next day. I was tired after coming back from Disneyland and didn't transfer the photos to my laptop. Sigh. I have to wait for my sister to upload the pictures from her camera. Alas, the picture I took with Buzz Lightyear is gone because I used my camera to take that picture T_T

At first, we thought of taking the MRT near the hotel at Jordan Station to Hong Kong Disneyland. Then the taxi driver that we hailed to go to the Airport Express told us that it will be almost the same fare for the six of us to take the cab directly to Hong Kong Disneyland. The fare came to about HKD165. This is because there's toll charges included.

This is my first time ever to visit Disneyland. Yes, I don't come from a rich family where my parents can take me to visit Disneyland in USA, Tokyo or Paris when I was small.



Bought 6 passes, two children and four adults. Have to thanks my brother-in-law for this. Photos are taken using my Nokia E7 (it's not officially mine yet at that time, I was still reviewing it for Maxis10 Reviewers Programme)

Queuing up for Orbitron ride

I sat with my nephew Noah and bro-in-law sat with Ruth

Queuing for another ride. This time is driving a slow car at Autopia.

Had lunch at Tomorrowland.

I can't help but buy myself a souvenir.

Say hello to Goofy.

There's one ride that one must try at Tomorrowland and that will be Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters. Damn fun this ride. You'll be riding in a moving tram that you can turn 180 degrees and shoot the props there with infra-red gun. If you were able to hit the target it will respond to it. Finally you'll be able to battle with Evil Emperor Zurg.

Even adults will have so much fun in this ride.

After Tomorowland, we planned to go to Fantasyland next. The five of them my mom, my sis, bro-in-law, niece and nephew went on first because I was queuing up to take picture with Buzz Lightyear. T_T no more picture of him and me.

As I was walking to Fantasyland, I got blocked by the Disney Parade. This is one of the ultimate attraction in Disneyland that one must not miss. You'll be able to see almost every main characters in every Disney movie ever made. Of course this includes Mickey and his gang.

Dumbo!

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Winnie the Pooh

Picture don't do justice. Watch the Disney Parade in 720p High Definition video.

After the Disney Parade finished, we got to Fantasyland. On the way, I bought some popcorn. We then start with Mad Hatter Tea Cups ride. Then we went to Fantasy Garden to take pictures with some of the Disney characters. Every half an hour there will be a change of character there in the four of the pavilions. If you are lucky, you might be able to take picture with 4 different characters every half an hour.

We took pictures with Winnie the Pooh.

Daisy Duck is going for a rest when we finished with Winnie, so no luck taking picture with her.

Taking her place is Pluto!

In the next pavilion, there's Goofy. He's very mischievous -_-

If you are not a fan of Winnie the Pooh. I will recommend that you avoid The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ride. Firstly, the queue will be damn long. We waited like an hour to get to the ride, unless you've purchased express pass. Secondly, there's nothing special really about this ride, you just it in a tram and it move one round reading the story from Winne the Pooh. We regretted queuing so long for such a lame ride.

In Fantasyland, you must go watch the 4D show in Mickey Philharmagic. This one, sure you won't regret and the queue is not that long.

It's almost dark after we've done with Fantasyland. So, we have to give Adventureland a miss because the children were already tired. Next time I'll just go to Adventureland first lol. We had dinner in Plaza Inn (owned by Maxim's Group) in Main Street, U.S.A before we go home. We also didn't wait for the fireworks display.

It's time to go home and here's how Main Street, U.S.A looks like at night.

Goodbye Hong Kong Disneyland

We decided to take the MRT back to hotel just because we wanted to see the train with Mickey Mouse's shape windows :p Even the MRT station here feels like we're still living in a Disney movie.

Some hit and misses there on the ride. I'll come back again I promised to explore more.