FAM Movie Review : Upside Down ( 2012 )

Genre : Sci-Fi | Romance | Fantasy

Director : Juan Solanas

Cast : Jim Sturgess ( Adam ) , Kirsten Dunst ( Eden ) , Timothy Spall ( Bob )

Our Rating : 7.5/10

Upside Down is a rare Form of movie with a weird concept about a romantic love story on a strange astronomic world very unique from all other planets. Jim Sturgess as Adams plays a romantic lover boy character were the movie starts with him narrating the story about his planet and how different it is. The planet he is in is a Twin with two different world having their own gravitiy field around it and are just so close that they are merely separated by the dual gravity. People in one world can watch the people in other world upside down and each humans in their respective world are attached to their own planet by gravity. They cannot migrate to the opposite planet as the dual gravity is based on three simple rules .

1) All matter is pulled by the gravity of the world that it comes from, and not the other.
2) An object's weight can be offset by matter from the opposite world (inverse matter).
3) After some time in contact, matter in contact with inverse matter burns.

So the person cannot move to a other planet as they are attached to their own gravity and any material or particle from other planet is called inverse matter and if its moved from its original planet , it will get heated up and would burn as per the three laws. So the movie depends on this simple phenomena of physics which is why its a rarest script ever thought off. The two worlds though are twined and separated , one world is rich and wealthy and on the other people are poor , starving and economically down. The Rich world uses the poor world for its rich oil wealth in-exchange of Electricity for this Poor world and there is a company called TransWorld which serves as a bridge between both world managing all the transactions and exchanges. Transworld is huge massive tower constructed which unites both world and so many people from both world are employed there and that is the only place where both world meet though the contact between both world is strictly forbidden and any violation of this can even result in death penalty.

When the world itself is upside down with a very strange natural cause , a simple cute love blossoms between two teens , Adam from poor world and Eden ( kristian Dunst ) from the rich. Adam meets Eden from the other world while climbing a mountain for collecting rarest floral for his aunt . Apart from Transworld this is the only place where the two worlds are close to each other and somehow the encounter between Adam and Eden soon develops into a romantic relationship between both while they are still attached to their own gravity. Irrespective of the consequences that they are forbidden to communicate , Eden climbs down to the other world to meet Adam as she cannot resist her feelings for him and they do start meeting each other secretly ever after. Things move perfectly fine till one day when they were been tracked by police and are been chased down ,  in a event of this Eden meets up with a accident and she is pulled back to her own world by gravity resulting in injury to her head . Adam and Eden are separated for long after this incident, years pass by and they are no more in touch until that day when Adam notices Eden on a TV Show about trans-world and he gets to know that she is working on transworld and that she is alive.




Adam has a special set of skills passed on from his aunt to prepare a concoction for anti aging and using this skill he gets a job in transworld impressing the big bosses on the rich world , but his only intention is to search and find Eden. He moves on to transworld as a employee which is bound to so many rules and somehow after so many tough attempts he tracks down his love of his life but he gets to know that she don't remember anything because of her accident to head and that she cant really identify him at all. So rest of movie is how he manages to travel to the other world to meet Eden to make her remember him and his attempts to escape from police while he gets caught during his meet with Eden and how they finally manage to live together is rest of the story .

Though the climax was bit uncompromising and was rushed to a  quick end , still this movie has its own golden moments of breath-taking scenes. The script chosen is not so easy to make and bring it to celluloid form. Juan Solanas sure had his guts to take it down this challenging script and bring it live , for sure he deserves a applause . Wonderful CG Works and mind blowing cinematography. Picturization was just stunning all the way especially some scenes capturing the scenic beauty of both worlds and i just could imagine going to a planetarium for watching celestial bodies. Its sure gives you a haunting feel with goosebumps when u see the screen where a person from one world can just lift his head to see the sky , but no no in this case the other world and so the sky is not the end for them like earth. Some shots like when Adam was thrown out from one world to the ocean on other world and the meeting of Adam & Eden on the mountains which has rain upside down was so cool to watch leaving you stunned. First half screenplay stays as best but a bit led down at the end. Kristen Dunst was just cool , awesome mesmerizing and chemistry between Kristen & Jim was beautifully portrayed. Though this movie plot is about love and how he tracks her to win his love back , still the romance quotient is bit low but more felt as a sci-fi genre movie rather. This movie definitely deserves a one time watch for its stunning visualization and for a experience of watching some rarest movie with a strange script. Not a exceptional movie or neither a bad movie too , but unique of its kind.

FAM Punch Line : Upside Down -  Showtime on a planetarium. Go in with a kids heart and come out fully satisfied. A Virtual Journey sure worth a ride, at-least worth a try once.

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FAM Movie Review : Jack the Giant Slayer ( 2013 ) 

Director :Bryan Singer

Cast : Nicholas Hoult  ( Jack ) and Eleanor Tomlinson ( Isabelle )

Our Rating : 8/10

Movie is about a world between Heaven and Hell which is occupied by Huge Man eating Giants. They are isolated from earth because of no connectivity between the two worlds . Once upon a time , these giants managed to reach earth by a huge tree grown by a magical bean which reaches to a great heights onto the skies from earth and these giants were able to climb down to earth using that tree. Eric the king who ruled that time fought bravely and managed to kill one of the giant and using its heart , he created a magical crown by which whomsoever wearing it can control these giants . So Eric managed to send them back to their world and he had the tree cut down so they dont come back. Many years pass by and king is now just a legend , a chapter in story books which  talks about the magical crown and those magical beans.Now moving to the present age showing Nicholas Hoult as Jack a simple poor farm boy and Isabelle ( Princess , daughter of current king ) who is also a bloodline of Eric King the great. Somehow those beans alomg with the crown are stolen from erics Coffin and important thing is if those beans get wet , they can grow large which can result in giants using it to come down causing a series threat to mankind. One of the beans accidentally get wet in a rain resulting in unimaginable tree growing huge tearing up the clouds so high. In this incident princess Isabelle also been taken high up along with jack house when the tree grew. How Jack along with other Kings Soldiers climb the tree to reach the other side of the world to save princess , how jack saves princess inturn princess falling in love for him and how the crown is used to bring back peace & safety to the man kind is rest of the story to be tired on the big screen.

Some camera shots from top angle eagle view are must watch in a Imax 3D Screen as it is breathtaking . Movie screenplay is good but the story is very predictable and it doesn't surprise you much on what the next scene would be. Its not a thriller movie , though has giants involved but sure it would be fun for any children's watching it for they would feel like watching their Night time stories and fairy tales in a big screen. Climax scenes when giants climb down was good for sometime. But nothing more to expect out of it. It is not worth for a 3D Movie and there are not much scenes worth made for a 3D Viewing except few. BGM was normal and the characters were not that catchy that includes Nicholas Hoult as jack who is not that perfect match for the role but still tried his best and all others did their part as normal it can be, no goosebumps anywhere throughout the movie. Its just a clear fun filled movie with no logic's and just meant for enjoyment only. Watchable once for its fresh feel but nothing more for a matured movie watchers. Pure Children's entertainment and sure they would love it most especially in a Imax screen 3D if possible.

FAM Movie Club : Jack the giant slayer should have been slayed here and there to cut shot the run hours but said it is a pure fun entertainment for viewers who just need some refreshing time watching a movie with not much of anything. It deserves one time watch not more than that if you are not below 12 age. Have fun watching***once ( Conditions apply ) :p