In this latest version of the adventures of Superman,
Batman, and Wonder Woman they join forces with the Martian Manhunter, the Green
Lantern, Hawkgirl and the Flash to fight the armies of darkness. This Green
Lantern is not Hal Jordan from the Superfriends franchise but John Stewart. We
also have Wally West instead of Barry Allen as the Flash. A fun version of
these characters.
This movie came out shortly after the first Avengers movie
and deals with some of the aftermath of that movie. It takes place at Christmas
time, but came out in the summer. Basically Tony Stark is suffering from some
PSTD after almost dying flying a bomb into space. Meanwhile, a new villain
calling himself the Mandarin has been setting off bombs. When Stark’s friend,
Happy Hogan, is hurt in one of these bombings, Stark decides to threaten the
Mandarin. When the Mandarin retaliates, Stark has to investigate. A really fun
holiday movie featuring one of my favorite superheroes.
A wonderful Holiday Star Wars fanfic. Basically Darth Vader
kind of has a Christmas Carol moment where Qui Gon Jin, Obi Wan Kenobi, and an
uncorrupted Anakin Skywalker come to tell him where he messed up and what he
can do to save himself. A cool trick that she uses is that every one of the
“ghosts” are introduced to the audience with a different font style: Jin is
underlined, Kenobi is italicized, and Skywalker is bold. She uses this to show
you when one or other of the ghosts are talking even when he is being visited
by the other ghosts. This was part of a
holiday challenge and one part of that challenge is that you needed to
reference a Christmas song. Yesac chose the classic “Do You Hear What I
Hear”. Here is a link to the fanfic and
a link to the song.
Taking place between Endgame and Guardians of the Galaxy 3,
the Holiday special is the Guardians at Christmas time. In the special, Mantis
and Drax decide to kidnap Kevin Bacon in an effort to cheer up Peter who is
still reeling from the loss of his Gamora. They think that this will be the
perfect Christmas present for Quill. Hilarious hijacks ensue. It really is a
lot of fun.
When a meteor crash lands on earth during Susan’s wedding
she is suddenly transformed into a 50 foot tall woman who is subsequently
captured by the government and taken to a secure location. There she meets Dr.
Cockroach, BOB, the Missing Link, and Insectosaurus. When an alien named
Gallaxhar attacks earth attempting to gain the radiation that Susan absorbed,
the government decides to release the monsters in order to take down the alien
threat. There are many call backs in the movie to classic scifi that make it
fun for fans of the genre. However, you do not need to have seen any of these
movies to enjoy the movie. Zany fun for the whole family.
This was my first introduction to the character of
Supergirl. In this version of the story, Superman’s cousin, Kara, lives in Argo
City, a Kryptonian community that survived the destruction of Kryrpton. When
the Omegahadron that powers the city is accidently rocketed into space, Kara
leaves to attempt to retrieve it. She tracks it to Earth where she finds that
the Omegahedron was recovered by a witch named Selena. Discovering the same
powers that her cousin found on earth, Kara has to defeat Selena and retrieve
the Omegahedron.
You may have noticed that I skipped part II. I’m not a big
fan of part II, but if you are, great! It did fill in some blanks when I
finally did watch it! In Part III, Marty and Doc Brown go back to the 1800’s.
It’s a weird Western with crazy time traveling shenanigans. Marty sees that Doc
Brown is slated to die from an old photo of a gravestone with his name on it.
He goes back in time to try to save Brown. He meets his ancestors and can’t be
McFly so he claims to be Clint Eastwood. A fun fact: In the movie A Million
Ways to Die in the West, the main character stumbles on Doc Brown and a quickly
hidden Delorian.
