Turbo

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  • Title: Turbo
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TurboTurbo is a good reminder that most animated movies fail to reach the heights or depths of live-action theatrical films. Most fall somewhere in-between. That’s not to say this tale about a snail competing in the Indianapolis 500 isn’t a good movie. Turbo is a cute, fun, and mostly entertaining 96-minute story about chasing impossible dreams and the complicated relationships between brothers that’s likely to please, but not wow, the whole family.

Our story centers around two pairs of brothers who share quite a bit in common even though one pair is human and the other are snails. We’re introduced first to Theo (Ryan Reynolds), the dreamer who yearns of nothing more than being fast enough to race his idol (a charismatic human driver voiced by Bill Hader), and his far more down-to-earth brother Chet (Paul Giamatti).

A pair of accidents involving Theo get the pair banished from their garden home and provide Theo with the unbelievable speed which allows the snail to chase his dreams.

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Longmire – The Great Spirit

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  • Title: Longmire – The Great Spirit
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Longmire - The Great Spirit

After receiving reports of a wild horse tearing up farmland, Longmire (Robert Taylor) and Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) capture the runaway and begin an investigation into the dad body tied the horse which Longmire believes is tied to an illegal travelling underground rodeo. Longmire and Henry also have to deal with the return of Detective Fales (Charles S. Dutton) who has a few questions for the sheriff’s friend about the death of the man who murdered Longmire’s wife.

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Uncanny X-Men #8

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Uncanny X-Men #8After the fallout from the X-Men’s adventure in Limbo, Fabio decides to return to his family who have all sorts of questions when they discover his mutant ability and concerns about just what the X-Men terrorists did to him. This half of the storyline also picks up the loose thread of Dazzler (started before the Limbo arc) who shows up wanting Fabio’s help to find Cyclops.

The other half of the issue deals mainly with a conversation between Cyclops and Magneto over their recent trust issues (Cyclops killing Professor X, Magneto ratting out the X-Men to S.H.I.E.L.D.) as well as the X-Men rescuing another young mutant (with the power to control mechanical devices with his mind) from a quick-drawing police officer who shoots the young man and decides to ask questions later.

The first issue back from Limbo plays on two classic X-Men themes: a family’s concern and distrust of a new mutant’s abilities and (as Magneto would put it) how homo sapiens react in fear and danger at the presence of homo superior. Worth a look.

[Marvel, $3.99]

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Star Wars #7

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Star Wars #7With Leia fully recuperated, she and Luke take a trip back to Tatooine where Luke gives his aunt and uncle the proper burial he was unable to offer when fleeing the planet months earlier. It’s here where Leia also confides in Luke the true mission of their squadron to not only find the Rebellion a new home base but ferret out the traitor in their midst.

Hearing how dire the situation has become, Luke suggests a highly risky plan involving getting Wedge and Luke captured by the Star Destroyer Devastator and planting surveillance to help find the source of the leak. Although concerned Luke hasn’t exactly thought out the entire plan, with limited time Leia okays the mission with Prithi as support (a character I’m glad to see has stuck around despite what her exit in the last issue suggested).

Star Wars #7 also gives us Han and Chewie trying to make it out of Coruscant alive while been tracked by Boba Fett and more of Darth Vader‘s quasi-disciple Birra Seah who the Emperor is not pleased to see in command of the second Death Star during a surprise visit. Worth a look.

[Dark Horse, $2.99]

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Legends of Awesomeness – Shifu’s Ex

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  • Title: Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness – Shifu’s Ex
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Legends of Awesomeness - Shifu's Ex

When Po (Mick Wingert) learns that Shifu‘s (Fred Tatasciore) ex-girlfriend is visiting the Jade Palace the Dragon Warrior decides to try and get the former lovebirds back together not realizing that in their years apart Mei Ling (Susanne Blakeslee) has become Shifu’s most hated enemy and has only come to destroy him.

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