Moana, the daughter of the village chief, has always felt the call of the ocean even though she’s forbidden to travel beyond the reef. When the island’s resource start running low, Moana knows she must do something to help her people. Legends tell that a great darkness has been taking over the world since the demigod Maui stole the heart of the goddess Te Fiti. But if these legends are true, where is Maui… and where is the heart?
Ella’s joyful childhood ends when an illness takes her mother. Life goes on for Ella and her father, but after several years he remarries. Unfortunately Ella’s new stepmother and stepsisters are far from kind, and when her father passes, she soon realizes she’s become someone else: Cinderella.
Judy Hopps has had a dream ever since she was a little bunny: to be a police officer. There has never been a rabbit police but she becomes the first and gets a job in Zootropolis, a bustling metropolis where predators and prey live in harmony. To prove her worth to her suspicious Chief, Judy takes on a missing mammal case that turns out to be too much for her to handle alone.
Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves and a panther, knows nothing but the jungle. Everything changes when Shere Khan, the jungle’s most feared predator, learns of Mowgli’s presence and declares the “man cub” his prey. Mowgli decides to leave his pack to save his family from getting hurt but with danger lurking around every corner, it’s a long way to the man village…
To expand my review archives, I’m adding in movies! These will be rarer than book reviews but if a movie has a great story that catches my attention, I’ll share that with you. Today’s movie: Inside Out.
Happy Easter everyone! If you’re too full of chocolate to write, take a break and watch Inside Out from Disney and Pixar! Here’s the trailer in case you haven’t seen it yet.
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