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Beware the Batman – Hunted

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  • Title: Beware the Batman – Hunted
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Beware the Batman - Hunted

In my opinion any attempt to make a Batman-inspired cartoon is doomed to pale in comparison to the Batman: The Animated Series. Given the extreme liberties taken with the designs of Batman’s rogues gallery I could never get into The Batman, but I will admit a fondness for the sheer glee in which Batman: The Brave and the Bold embraced the Silver Age ridiculousness of the character (even offering us Catman riding his giant robotic cat in one episode!). Replacing Green Lantern: The Animated Series on DC Nation, the similarly CGI-animated Beware the Batman began its run this past weekend with the show’s first episode – “Hunted.”

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Pretty Little Liars – Under the Gun

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  • Title: Pretty Little Liars – Under the Gun
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Pretty Little Liars - Under the Gun

As the cops run ballistic tests on the gun found in Hanna‘s (Ashley Benson) possession, Hanna and her parents go over the events that led to their current predicament and Hanna’s mother (Laura Leighton) stealing the gun from her ex-husband (Roark Critchlow), and the rest of the Liars are shocked by the return of Mona (Janel Parrish) who exposes Spencer‘s (Troian Bellisario) role in hiding the fact that Toby (Keegan Allen) returned A‘s RV to their unknown enemy which only continues to further drive a wedge between Spencer and Emily (Shay Mitchell).

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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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Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters – Persuasion

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  • Title: Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters – Persuasion
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Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters - Persuasion

With Ratchet (Jeffrey Combs) captured by the Decepticons and Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) and the Autobots unable to stop their enemies from retrieving the final pieces of technology the need to rebuild the Omega Lock, Megatron (Frank Welker) attempts to appeal to his captive to finish his work with Synthetic Energon and and help transform Cyberton in the thriving planet it once was before the Transformers’ war consumed it.

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Giant Robots vs. Monsters

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  • Title: Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Pacific Rim
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Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Pacific RimThe idea behind director Guillermo del Toro‘s latest movie is hardly original. The world, not just Hollywood, has made a living on giant monster movies for decades. We’ve also seen a number of giant robot movies, particularly big-budget CGI-extravaganzas in recent years. Even animated movies such as Monsters vs. Aliens have pitted two groups of giant creatures against each other.

More than Blade II (the only watchable film from that franchise) or either of the Hellboy movies, del Toro’s latest is easily his most mainstream attempt at a summer blockbuster. We certainly get the director’s spin on things, and designs of creatures who seem right at home in Hellboy or Pan’s Labyrinth, but the story from the director and co-writer Travis Beacham itself is by the book (and doesn’t even attempt to color outside the lines). The result is a film that feels a lot like a mashup of Robot Jox, Independence Day (complete with last-minute inspirational speech and wacky scientists), Top Gun, Transformers, and various monster movies all spruced up with sexy CGI and de Toro’s eye for creature design.

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