THE PRINCESS SWITCH: SWITCHED AGAIN

  The Princess Switch: Switched Again is a sequel to The Princess Switch of 2018 and stars Vanessa Hudgens in three different roles playing as royalty in them all. In this movie, Lady Margaret (Vanessa Hudgens) is on the verge of being crowned queen, but she is uncertain of her willingness for the job.  Lady Margaret and Kevin (Nick Sagar) has broken up but they still have feelings for each other. Nick moved back to the U.S and he was not planning on attending the coronation ceremony.  Stacy de Novo (also Vanessa Hudgens) Margaret's friend and lookalike hatches a plan to get Kevin to the ceremony and for the two women to swap places (again as they did in the original Princess Switch film) in order for Margaret to get a day alone with Kevin and decide her true feelings. 

However, the plot becomes challenging when the cousin of Margaret, Fiona (Hudgens again), who also looks just like the other two women, arranges to have Margaret abducted so that she can be crowned queen and steal from the royal bank accounts. Little does Fiona realize that there was a switch again and  Stacy was abducted instead. Is the right queen going to reign and find true love? 

It has meaningful messages about true love and inherited obligations, but the princess theme and the idea that ultimate happiness is by marrying into royalty for an average American may put off some parents. The movie also normalizes life with extreme wealth, although the characters are depicted as ordinary individuals with regular issues of relationship and trust.

Over The Moon

Over the moon is an animation about a young girl and her family. Fei Fei(Cathy Ang) lives with her mother and father and they lived happily selling mooncakes until her mother passed away due to an illness. While her mother was alive, she tells Fei Fei the story of Chang'e  a mortal who took a potion of immortality and she ascended to the moon and became a godess leaving her lover Houyi behind. Chang'e lives lonely on the moon awaiting the return of Houyi.

The first moon festival after her mother's death, her father brings Mrs Zhong (Sandra Oh) and her son Chin(Robert G chiu). Fei Fei learns that her father might be getting married to Mrs Zhong and she is sad. Her extended family came to join them for the moon festival celebration and they begin to talk about Chang'e and they argue if she's real or just a myth. Her father believes that Chang'e is a myth this makes Fei Fei hurt and she feels her father has forgotten all about her mother. She decides to go to the moon and prove that Chang'e is real as this will remind him of her mother and stop him from getting married.. This led her to an adventure and a lesson about acceptance. 

This movie has a theme of acceptance because Fei Fei was still grieving her mother and she didn't want to accept that her father was remarrying. She learnt that it is better to move on from a bad experience than to grieve about it and shut everyone out.  There is also a strong theme of courage and determination in this movie. Fei Fei was courageous enough to embark on a journey to the moon to prove that the godess was real and not a myth. I enjoyed this movie and I highly recommend it.

CLOUDS

 CLOUDS is a 2020  Movie based upon the memoir Fly a Little Higher: How God Answered a Mom's Small Prayer in a Big Way by Laura Sobiech. It tells the story of  Zach Sobiech (Fin Argus  ) who in his young age suffers from Osteosarcoma which is a form of cancer. Zach loves music and he plays the guitar and his best friend Sammy (Sabrina Carpenter) always cheers him and she helps him in his music. At 17, his cancer was declared terminable and his doctors claimed that he might not live to witness his senior prom or graduation. With support from his family and loved ones, Zach decides to spend his last days on earth in happiness doing the things he loves while trying to forget his illness. He and Sammy begin to record the video versions of their songs and Sammy uploads them to youtube. Their teacher Mr Weaver shows their video to BMI a record label in New York and they agree to sign them up. They call themselves "A FIRM HANDSHAKE". After signing the contract, Zach writes a song titled "Clouds"  and they release their first album which was a hit.  Behind the fame, Zach finds love and he struggles with his mortality and the sadness his loved ones are facing due to his illness. 

This heartbreaking true life story has strong themes of compassion and courage.  It is unpredictable by the great performance of the cast and the connection the director Justin Baldoni has with the Sobiech family. He got to know then when he filmed Zach Sobiech in 'MY LAST DAY SERIES". This contributes to the way he structured and told the story in this movie.  The main message in this movie is to live life to the fullest no matter what you might be passing through.  Zach had terminal cancer but he did his best  not let it make him feel depressed. Its a great movie and I highly recommend it. 

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CITATION

 

From the award winning director  Kunle Afolayan comes this movie Citation.  This is  a movie based on true events about how some Nigerian lecturers sexually harass and sometimes even rape their female students while threatening them with carryovers and extra year(s) in the university. This movie is about Moremi (Temi Otedola) a brilliant young female student who because of her intelligence attracted her lecturer Professor Luciene (Jimmy Jean-Louis) who was a highly qualified and respected professor. Moremi thought nothing of his attraction at first until it escalated and became more than she could handle.  

          The story  which shows how in any case,  the part with the highest position of power has the stronger voice is relatable and typical in many community today. This movie has a strong theme of bravery all through. Moremi was brave, determined and courageous even in the face of shame, betrayal and heartbreak she stood and ground and remain unwavering in her fight for justice to prevail. The aim of the director is to encourage people to speak up when they are being treated unjustly especially victims of sexual harassment because rape culture thrives on silence.  I  highly recommend this movie if you haven't already seen it.

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THE WITCHES 2020

 

The Witches Is a movie adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1983 childrens book which was first adapted to screenplay in 1990.  The movie begins with a narrator lets call him Hero (Chris Rock) telling the story of how he encountered witches as a little boy.  In 1968 when he was 8 (Jahzir Bruno) he lost his parents in a car accident and he went to live with his grandmother (Octavia Spencer)  in a small town  in Alabama. Unknowingly to them there was a witch living near by and apparently children smell repulsive to witches so she smelt him.  The witch approached him at a local market and asked him if he wants a piece of candy in a very creepy and scary way. He tells his grandmother  who developed a bad cough  about his encounter later that day and she told him that the woman he met was not an ordinary woman but a witch. His grandmother also narrates the story of how when she was little a witch turned her best friend into a chicken. 

She goes further to tell him about the characteristics of witches and tells him that they were gloves because they have claws not hands, wigs and hats because they are bald, and make up to disguise their elongated mouth. Scared that the witch may come after them again his grandmother booked a room in  a fancy hotel because she thinks they would be safe there because witches only prey on the unnoticed.  Not long after arriving at the hotel, Hero finds out that the group of women who are allegedly there for a child-welfare conference are actually witches who are led by their leader The Grand High Witch (Anne Hathaway) who has a plan to turn children into mice with a potion and then kill them. Unfortunately, he could not save himself or his new friend Bruno from the witches and they were turned into mice. So with the help of his grandmother and his pet mice Mary who was also a human child turned mice a few months ago they team up and try to stop the witches from carrying out their evil plan. Do they succeed or are they killed? 

  

This movie is dark but is also a comic-fantasy. This 2020 screen adaptation of the original book is more diverse than previous adaptations.  This movie has themes of courage, teamwork and communication.  However, it is rated PG because of scary images/moments, language and thematic elements.