Emily's Blog

August 2008 - Posts

• Way over due...

  I'm sorry this blog is way over due....I have been so busy the last couple of weeks! I got to go back home to Philadelphia to visit my family and friends and just have some vacation time! It was so much fun and just the relaxing time that I needed. I also started school on Monday....which was cool to start up new classes, but this semester is going to be a lot of work. On another note though....what did everyone think of the Olympics now that its done?!! With being a gymnast myself, That was the number one thing on my tivo. I'm so proud of my girl Nastya she definitely deserved the Gold! The whole team was great though and I send my congrats to them!! Any one else have anything to add about the Olympics? Peace&love   Posted Aug 26 2008, 06:07 PM by emily with no comments Filed under: Olympics, gymnastics
• Review: Fly Me To The Moon

  In this groundbreaking 3-D animated adventure, three young flies set off on a courageous mission to become the first insects on the moon by hitching a ride on the historic Apollo 11 space flight. The year is 1969 and like everyone else in the world, Nat (Trevor Gagnon) and his pals IQ (Philip Daniel Bolden) and Scooter (David Gore) are abuzz over the upcoming launch of the first manned mission to the moon. Inspired by his Grandpa’s (Christopher Lloyd) oft-told tale of hiding aboard Amelia Earhart’s plane during her famed solo cross-Atlantic flight, Nat hatches a secret plan for the three young flies to stow away on the Apollo 11 rocket. Thinking the trip will be over in a matter of minutes, the fly boys—and their earthbound families—are shocked to learn they will be in space for closer to a week. When a N.A.S.A. Ground Control official catches sight of the three winged stowaways, he instructs the astronauts to store them in a test tube for later study. But after an electrical short causes the ship’s engine to malfunction, the three intrepid insects manage to escape from their glass mini-brig just in time to discover the wiring problem and fix it. After a difficult lunar landing, Nat tags along with Neil Armstrong on his legendary moon walk. Although the flies face a few more close calls, the mission appears to be a success. At least until Grandpa’s old flame Nadia (Nicolette Sheridan) arrives from Russia to warn him that her government, angry over losing the space race, has dispatched fly-spy Yegor (Tim Curry) to Cape Canaveral to sabotage the computer flight plans. With the Apollo hurtling toward Earth, it falls to Nat’s family to save the mission—and the trio of brave flies—from disaster. --© Summit Entertainment This film was definitely for younger kids (Rated G) and the 3D animation was pretty cool! It was a cute story and the characters were fun and made me chuckle at times. OFFICIAL SITE: Fly Me To The Moon TRAILER: Posted Aug 08 2008, 01:49 AM by emily with no comments Filed under: 3D movie, fly me to the moon