The Hitch Hiker

This animation is not worth renting. The show is simply the original radio show broadcast with some poor animation to correspond to it. Again, another high rated netflix movie that fails to deliver.

Not worth the time looking for the trailer and posting it here if it does exist.

Netflix Summary:

Applying modern animation techniques to vintage radio theater, director Michael Anthony Jackson tells a spine-tingling tale of a man (voiced by Orson Welles) who descends into madness over the course of a cross-country road trip. This uniquely rendered thriller is based on the 1940s radio play by Lucille Fletcher and was considered by Welles to be one of the greatest suspense plays ever written for the medium.

Up - 2010 Academy Award®: Best Picture nominee

This was a Disney Pixar animated movie that came across as an Indie cartoon. I really liked it. It was simply cute and funny, and yet had some adult themes about love and life.

I am a little surprised, but this is a 2010 Academy Award®: Best Picture nominee. Will it win? I doubt it, but you never know. I did enjoy the movie.

Check out the trailer and if that appeals to you I think you will like it. Watch it and enjoy.

Netflix Summary:

After a lifetime of dreaming of traveling the world, 78-year-old homebody Carl (voiced by Ed Asner) flies away on an unbelievable adventure, with Russell, an 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer (Jordan Nagai), unexpectedly in tow. Together, the unlikely pair embarks on a thrilling odyssey full of jungle beasts and rough terrain. Other voices in the Golden Globe-winning film include the renowned Christopher Plummer and Pixar stalwart John Ratzenberger.

Avatar - 2010 Academy Award®: Best Picture nominee

I heard a lot about this movie so I was very skeptical that it would deliver based on all the positive press. I normally don't like what the main stream public likes, but this movie was excellent. I was very impressed with all the special effects they incorporated at every stage of the movie.

The acting was great, even though at times the characters were cartoonish. I am talking more about the military commander that comes across as a GI Joe wannabee. The actual avatars were pretty awesome. The storyline itself is predictable, although it did take a twist I didn't see. I didn't expect so many characters to die, too. That may have actually contributed to the overall story realism. Most Hollywood endings keep everyone alive for purposed of sequels.

Anyways, this is a great movie. Watch it and enjoy. Cheers!

Netflix Summary:

Disabled Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) travels to planet Pandora to become an avatar, ingratiate himself with the natives and help Americans mine lucrative unobtainium. But he finds himself in an interstellar conflict after falling for Na'vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). James Cameron writes and directs this Golden Globe-winning CGI odyssey that has broken box office records. Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang co-star.

Mimi wo sumaseba aka Whisper of the Heart

My wife and I really enjoyed this movie Whisper of the Heart. Even though it is an animation, I think the film itself is able to capture the country's culture and values and express it to Westerners like us.

This was a fun film focused on the growing up of Japanese kids in their culture. It seems like kids are pressured to get ready for high school exams and are expected to know what they want to do for a career early on.

I have watched many Japanese films, and I liked the fact the animation included some realistic settings such as small apartments, crowded cities, and the rainy weather. A great movie worth watching. Hope you enjoy it too. Cheers!

Netflix Summary:

Schoolgirl Shizuku Tsukishima -- who has a passion for reading and hopes of becoming a writer -- discovers that all the books she checks out of the library have been borrowed before by someone called Seiji Amasawa. Shizuku's curiosity soon gets the best of her, and she sets out to meet the person who shares her literary taste, which leads her to love and inspires her to pursue her dream in this charming animated tale.