Inception

In the imaginary sci-fi action world, your dreams and secrets could be taken away by an extractor, who enters your dreams and access the otherwise inaccessible hidden information. Similarly, he might be skilled enough to plant in idea into your sub-consciousness and alter your life path altogether.

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), is a professional extractor, and team comprises Arthur (point man in charge of research), Earnes (forger who impersonates target), Ariadne (architect who designs the dreamscape) and Yusuf (the chemist for sleep induction), are employed to plant an idea into Robert Fischer who is the heir to an energy business empire. The man behind this plot is Saito, a rival energy company owner.

The target subject is first put to sleep and made to go into 2nd and 3rd stage of dream, that is dream within a dream. The idea of inception is to attached a basic positive emotion to that idea/concept. The subject will then assume the new idea as it slowly manifest from the subconsciousness.

While the storyline is interesting and special effect amazing, I can't help feeling bored in the middle of the movie. Too much time had been spent trying to impress the audience and buying time for the extractors.

Rating: 4 out of 5 fairy clouds. The movie is still worth a shot for its ingenuity. The idea of programming the subconscious is not a new thing, and particularly to a psychic or energy worker. I find myself disappointed with the movie despite all the ra-ra, hypes and excitement about it. Maybe I went to the movie with too high an expectation.

Despicable Me (3D)

If you live in a quiet suburban neighbourhood, you would probably never imagine a supervillain as your neighbour. But you might still feel strange or weird about your neighbour, I hope.

Gru, the number one supervillain, lives in a tall dark house in the middle of a tranquil suburb. There lies a secret; beneath Gru's house is a laboratory where Dr. Nefario builds the most high-tech machinery and weapons and assisting Gru is an army of menacing minion. Oh ya, very menacing indeed! They are ready to charge, to steal and to fight next to the best supervillain.

Unfortunately, Gru is getting old and upsurges by a new villain, Vector, who has successfully stole the Pyramid of Giza. In order to restore his glory, Gru plans for the greatest heist of all, to steal the moon! Armed with a shrink ray, Gru intends to go into space, shrink the moon and bring it back to earth. Unfortunately again, while stealing the shrink ray from a top secret lab in Asia, Vector gets the upper hand and ends up taking the shrink ray right off Gru's hand.

There comes three cute little orphan girls whom Gru adopted as a plot to get inside of Vector's vault, where the shrink ray is kept. The girls turns Gru life upside and ends up changing his life altogether. He has to choose between being a father or the greatest supervillain who stole the moon. Which will he choose? Its a very tough choice for Gru indeed.

Rating: 5 out of 5 fairy clouds. This animation is worth watching for the storyline, the 3D effect and the minions! While the plot warms your heart and fills it with love, the subplots and jokes on the minions are simply entertaining. You are guarantee a good laugh from the movie. It is worth watching a second time round too. Here is a YouTube link to the my favorite minion, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo9-bcbLn1Q.