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On January 7th, 2013, Huell Howser (California’s Gold) died at the 67 at his Palm Springs home. He had been battling cancer for several years and his death certificate listed metastatic prostate cancer as the cause of death.
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Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of The Andrews Sisters, died of natural causes at her home in Northridge, California, on January 30th, 2013 at the age of 94.
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Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City, died on February 1st, 2013, of heart failure.
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Richard Briers (The Good Life, Ever Decreasing Circles, Peter Pan) died at his home in Bedford Park, London on February 17th, 2013 from the effects of a cardiac arrest.
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Educational Tour: London, England
On March 21st, 2013, I left 3705 NW Columbia Ave with his dad and he drops me off at the Portland International Airport where Roscoe, Mr. Shelton, and his class are waiting. I, Roscoe and Mr. Shelton’s class board the plane heading for San Francisco and another heading for London. They slept all night at the plane and arrived at England in the morning. I brought a few DVDs (Wreck-It Ralph & The Pixie Olympics Arcade, Brave, Rise of the Guardians, Megamind, Despicable Me (in honor of its sequel this summer), The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Monsters, Inc. (in honor of its prequel this summer), Mulan (in honor of its 15th anniversary), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (in honor of its 25th anniversary), and Brother Bear (in honor of its 10th anniversary)).
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Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and Westminister Hall
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The Westfield Stratford City is a vast 1.9 million square foot shopping mall billed as the ‘gateway’ to London’s Olympic Park. Opened on September 13th, 2011, Westfield Stratford City was a significant part of the development of this area of East London leading up to the 2012 Olympic Games with John Lewis at one end, Marks & Spencer at the other and more than 300 shiny new shops (including the Disney Store (since it’s early Easter, I collect Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Merida in her blue dress form from the Academy Award-winner Brave, Peter, Wendy, John and Michael from Peter Pan, the stuff from A Bug’s Life and Finding Nemo (Flik, Marlin, Atta, Dory, Dot, Nemo, Hopper, Francis, Gill, Heimlich, Peach, Slim, Bloat, Rosie, Bruce, Dim, Crush, Tad, Squirt, Pearl, P.T. Plea, Sheldon, Anchor, Chum), and Disney Fairies Activity Book and Coloring Book), the Apple Store, Claire’s, the Entertainer, HMV, the LEGO Store) and restaurants (including Burger King, Starbucks) in between. There are 300 high street shops here including well known names like H & M, Primark, Topshop, Monsoon, River Island as well as stationers WH Smith and Boots the chemist. Many of the 50 or so restaurants are located just off the central arcade offering spectacular terrace views overlooking the Olympic site. Add to that a 14-screen, all-digital Vue cinema (which I go and see Disney’s Peter Pan (in honor of its 60th anniversary), The Croods, A Bug’s Life in 3D (in honor of its 15th anniversary), and Finding Nemo in 3D (in honor of its 10th anniversary)), the UK’s largest casino and an All Star Lanes bowling alley as well as offices, residential apartments and three hotels (including the Premier Inn Hotel (where we stay for eight nights and have sausages and pancakes for every breakfast), the 4-star flagship Holiday Inn) and you have more than an impressively sized shopping centre. In 2012, all eyes will be on the Olympic Stadium, and several million people will view Westfield Stratford City as their first glimpse of the site.
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We always use the Underground Subway to transport to London for the Educational Tour. We visited St. Paul’s Cathedral, Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, the British Museum, Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, Tower of London, Piccadilly Circus, and the London Eye. We went to many plays including The Lion King, Phantom of the Opera, and Spamelot. They went to other places in England including the birthplace of Shakespeare, Stonehenge, and Bath (where I collect Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen storybook). The English tour guide named Paul helps me and Roscoe find the Hamley’s toy store and the Disney Store at Oxford Street. It has a bit of winter snow in London and the birthplace of Shakespeare.
At March 29th, 2013, I and Roscoe (since Shelton and his class made it back to America) departed England and flew to Chicago and have dinner here and finally made it back to Portland tonight.
People incidents
Richard Griffiths (Withnail and I, The History Boys, Harry Potter) died aged 65 at the University Hospital Coventry on March 28th, 2013 after complications following heart surgery.
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The Croods (March 22, 2013 – October 1, 2013)
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Awards: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Nominee
MPAA Rating: PG (for some scary action)
Critic Score: fresh70%.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Consensus: While it may not be as (ahem) evolved as the best modern animated fare, The Croods will prove solidly entertaining for families seeking a fast-paced, funny cartoon adventure.
Box office: $587.2 million
Plot
A cave family called the Croods survives due to the overprotective nature of their stubborn, stern patriarch, Grug (Nicholas Cage). The only one who questions the family’s sheltered life is his teenaged daughter Eep (Emma Stone) who frequently disobeys her father’s orders out of curiosity, which he finds dangerous. Grug and Eep, along with her mother and his wife Ugga (Catherine Keener), her grandmother Gran (Cloris Leachman), and her younger brother and sister Thunk (Clark Duke) and Sandy (Randy Thom) face time sheltered in their cave home.
Eep sneaks out when she sees what she discovers to be a torch of fire and she encounters an inventive modern human boy named Guy (Ryan Reynolds) and his pet sloth Belt (Chris Sanders). He warns her of an impending apocalypse and offers to take her with him, but concerned for her family, Eep stays, getting a shell horn from him to blow in case she needs his help. Reuniting with her frantic father, she tries to tell her family what Guy told her, but fearing things that are “different” and “new” they destroy her horn.
A massive earthquake then destroys their home, and to avoid the earlier carnivore, they descend down into a tropical forest that lay hidden behind their cave all the time. Encountering a “Macawnivore” a brightly colored feline that Gran dubs “Chunky the Death Cat,” the family flees him until he is deterred by swarms of piranhakeets that devoured a ground whale. Using another horn, Eep calls to Guy who rescues them from the birds with his fire. After a great deal of confusion regarding their first contact with fire, Grug imprisons Guy in a log until he can guide them somewhere safe.
Outrunning the destruction, Guy is trusted enough to be let out of the log and he gives the Croods rudimentary shoes to walk over the harsh landscape as he leads them to a mountain in which he says will be safe. Guy also tells them stories of “Tomorrow” a haven of safety where he is headed and where curiosity is not deadly as Grug had claimed. At his treetop home, Grug sees the impression Guy is leaving on his family and he becomes jealous, especially when he realizes that Eep has fallen in love with Guy. Attempting to invent things like Guy, Grug only further embarrasses himself and drives his family further away from him. After the family is split up in a labyrinth of tunnels, all but Grug manage to escape by coming up with ideas of overcoming obstacles in their paths.
Reaching the mountain, Grug tries to force his family to hide out in a cave, but they resist, telling him that they can’t live in caves anymore, that they don’t want to “survive” but to “live”. This enrages Grug, who attacks Guy and the both of them end up in a tar flow where Grug learns that Guy’s family had perished in one. Realizing that Guy’s method of survival is better for his family, Grug works with him and they lure Chunky into a trap to free themselves. The family reunites, then flees a massive cataclysm as the land begins to violently rip apart.
The family is cut off from their destination by a continental split, but Grug, realizing the errors of his ways decides to throw his family to safety. He shares an invention he calls a “hug” with Eep, briefly before sending her across as well. Cut off from his family, Grug finds a cave for safety, where he encounters Chunky; who is truly a frightened and sweet feline, and he comes up with an idea to get across the chasm. Using a skeleton and the Piranhakeets to fashion a simple airship, Grug manages to send themselves; including several animals the family had encountered during their journey, across the chasm, reuniting with his family once again. He apologizes to them all and promises to never be so overbearing again.
Later, the Croods now live on the land and have settled on a vast beach where every day they can follow the light to “Tomorrow.”
People incidents
Phil Ramone was hospitalized in late February 2013 with an aortic aneurysm. He died of complications from surgery, on March 30th, 2013 at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan at the age of 79.
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Jane Henson, co-founder of The Muppets, died on April 2nd, 2013, from cancer at the family home in Greenwich, Connecticut. She was 78.
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Jean Sincere (Glee, Roxanne, The Incredibles) died from natural causes in Los Angeles, California, on April 3rd, 2013 at the age of 93.
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On April 4th, 2013, Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times, Siskel & Ebert) died at the age of 70 in Chicago as he was preparing to come home from the hospital, ending his 11-year battle with cancer.
On April 8th, 2013, Annette Funicello (The Mickey Mouse Club) died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, California, at the age of 70, from complications due to multiple scierosis.
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Jonathan Winters (It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Mork & Mindy) died of natural causes on the evening of April 11th, 2013 in Montecito, California at the age of 87.
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Richard LeParmentier (Star Wars, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Octopussy) died suddenly on April 15th, 2013 while visiting his family in Austin, Texas, United States, aged 66.
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Arthur Malet (Mary Poppins, Halloween, In the Heat of the Night, Anastasia) died on May 18th, 2013 from natural causes at the age of 85.
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Epic (May 24, 2013 – August 20, 2013)
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MPAA Rating: PG (for mild action, some scary images and brief rude language)
Critic Score: fresh64%.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Consensus: Though its narrative themes are all too familiar, Epic is beautifully animated and crafted with just enough flair to make for solid family entertainment.
Box office: $268.4 million
Plot
17-year-old Mary Katherine (Amanda Seyfried), or M.K., moves in with her eccentric scientist father Professor Bomba (Jason Sudeikis) who has been searching for tiny humanoid soldiers called Leafmen. They protect the forest. Bomba lives near from wicked creatures called Boggans and their malevolent leader Mandrake (Christoph Waltz). An independent young soldier named Nod (Josh Hutcherson) decides to quit much to the ire of the no-nonsense Leafmen leader Ronin (Colin Farrell).
The queen of the forest, Queen Tara (Beyoncé Knowles), must choose an heir to her throne and goes out to a field of leaf pods, guarded by a laid-back slug named Mub (Aziz Ansari) and a wannabe Leafman snail named Grub (Chris O’Dowd). Immediately after she chooses a pod, the Boggans attack. Tara flees the area with the pod, and though her bodyguards do their best to protect her, they are soon overwhelmed by the sheer number of Boggans. Eventually, Ronin arrives for her and the pair fly off on his hummingbird mount. They are then attacked by Mandrake and his son Dagda (Blake Anderson). Dagda is killed by Ronin, but Tara is shot with an arrow by Mandrake.
Meanwhile, M.K. decides to leave after having an argument with Bomba about his research. Before she can leave, Bomba’s dog Ozzy runs into the woods. While looking for Ozzy, M.K. sees Tara falling. Dying, Tara gives her the pod and uses her magic to shrink her. She tells M.K. to take the pod to a Glowworm named Nim Galuu (Steven Tyler) before she dies, and M.K. joins Ronin and the Leafmen, along with Mub and Grub. Ronin discovers that Nod has entered a race against other creatures and bugs on birds. Nod goes back on a deal with a tough bullfrog named Bufo (Pitbull) to throw the race. Before Bufo and his two henchmen can feed Nod to a snake for not throwing the race, Ronin intervenes and orders them to leave. A reluctant Nod joins him, M.K., Mub, and Grub after hearing about Queen Tara’s death which Bufo overhears.
Ronin, Nod, M.K., Mub, and Grub eventually track Nim Galuu down he then leads them down to the scroll library, where M.K. discovers Tara’s brief message before shrinking her, and a message that will get her back to normal size. When Ronin leaves, Nod takes M.K. on a deer ride and they begin to fall in love. Meanwhile, Mandrake has had the Boggans bring Bufo to him, finding out the location of the pod. Mandrake goes to Nim Galuu’s place to steal the pod, which, if it blooms in darkness will help Mandrake destroy the forest. He takes the pod and kidnaps Mub and Grub. Ronin scolds Nod for not being there to protect the pod. To get into Boggan territory undiscovered, M.K., Nod, and Ronin set out to Bomba’s house to get some disguises, where M.K. learns that the Leafmen have deliberately been leading Bomba off their trail. Bomba sees that he has visitors and captures M.K., fainting when he sees her. M.K. marks the location of Moonhaven on a map Bomba has made of the forest before rejoining Nod and Ronin.
When they reach the Boggan land Ronin distracts the Boggans while M.K. and Nod rescue Mub, Grub, and the pod. Mandrake discovers them and orders the Boggans to stop them. M.K., Nod, Mub, and Grub escape alive, but Ronin sacrifices himself to ensure their escape. Before the full moon can sprout the pod at Moonhaven, Mandrake’s bats block the light, causing the pod to begin sprouting in darkness. The Leafmen set out to fight the Boggans; M.K. tries to get help from her father by visiting his various cameras he had set in the forest. However, upon regaining consciousness, Bomba believes that he didn’t really see M.K. and that he has been insane all these years, and shuts down all his cameras. He changes his mind when he sees a red push-pin that M.K. had put on his map.
Bomba is overjoyed to see that he has been right and he follows M.K. to Moonhaven. M.K. uses Bomba’s iPod to make bat sounds, luring Mandrake’s bats away. Meanwhile, Mub and Nim Galuu try to stop Mandrake from reaching the pod, but are unsuccessful. Just then, Ronin appears, bearing scars and bruises from the Boggans. Mandrake manages to outdo him, but Ronin is defended by Nod, who finally realizes the importance of teamwork. Before Mandrake can obtain his victory, the pod blooms in moonlight, defeating the Boggans, and sealing Mandrake into a nearby tree.
The chosen heir is the flower child who helped save Tara earlier in the film. Grub becomes a Leafman, Nod and Ronin reconcile, and Nod and M.K. kiss before M.K. is returned to her original size. After reuniting with Bomba and becoming his assistant, the human family still keeps regular contact with their small friends as they continue the research of their world.
People incidents
On May 31st, 2013, Jean Stapleton (All in the Family, You’ve Got Mail) died in New York City of natural causes. She was 90.
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James Gandolfini (The Sopranos, In the Loop, Crimson Tide) died at the age of 51 of a heart attack during a vacation in Rome, Italy on June 19th, 2013.
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Joey Travolta’s Film Camp: San Diego (2013)
On June 3rd, 2013, I went with Roscoe and my class at Westside to Washington Family Ranch for our senior trip. We went zip lining, swimming, swinging, play basketball, skateboarding, and rock climbing. On June 6th, 2013, we went back to Portland and stopped at Beaverton Foursquare Church for the rehearsal of my graduation.
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On June 7th, 2013, I graduated successfully and celebrate my early birthday the next day. My graduation birthday presents are the Monsters University figurine set and the education action figures of Mike Wazowski & Art, James P. Sullivan & Scott “Squishy” Squibbles, Don Carlton & Terri & Terry, Johnny Worthington & Randy Boggs.
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On June 14th, 2013, one day after my 19th birthday, I departed 3705 NW Columbia Avenue and headed down Interstate 5 with my mom and pick up Melissa and her friend Brian and rent the winnebago in Eugene. Then we all took the winnebago van and headed down to southern California (drove past Hollywood, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Orange County (home of Disneyland), Riverside, and Palm Springs and made to San Diego). I brought a portable DVD player that I got for my graduation birthday to watch films during the drive (Brave, The Emperor’s New Groove, Monsters, Inc. (in honor of its prequel), Peter Pan (in honor of its 60th anniversary), Lilo & Stitch, The Muppets (in honor of its sequel this holiday season and spring next year), Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Tinker Bell’s Spring of Belief, Muppets & Fairies Treasure Autumn, Tinker Bell’s Midsummer Rescue, Cars and Cars 2 (in honor of its spin-off this August), Finding Nemo (in honor of its 10th anniversary), A Bug’s Life (in honor of its 15th anniversary)). It’s a long drive so we make stops to stay at the motels. I stayed with Melissa and my mom at the Residence Inn Marriot hotel at La Jolla. I went to Joey Travolta’s Inclusion Film Camp (10:00 AM – 3:30 PM) at the COX Communications for filming of the crime movie.
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The premiere on June 21, 2013 was Monsters University (a Pixar Animation Studios prequel to 2001’s Monsters, Inc. featuring Mike and Sulley’s college days). I went to the Fashion Valley mall to visit the Disney Store (where I collect the stuff from Monsters University including Randy, Squishy, Hardscrabble, Terri & Terry, Don, Chet, Art, Johnny, Greek Council President & Vice President, and Archie and from Planes, a spin-off of Disney/Pixar’s Cars including Dusty Crophopper, Skipper, Chug, Risplinger, El Chupacabra, Bravo & Echo, and Leadbottom). We went to San Diego and visited Seaport Village and Little Italy. We went to SeaWorld and its new water park, Aquatica. At SeaWorld, we went on Bayside Skyride, Journey to Atlantis, Dolphin Point, SeaWorld Sky Tower, Shamu’s Happy Harbor, Shipwreck Rapids, Turtle Reef, Wild Arctic, Riptide Rescue, and Manta. I played on Shamu’s Happy Harbor where I find pirate ships, jungle gyms, water geysers, and kid-size rides.
At June 28th, 2013, we stayed at Brian’s house for the night. The next day, we went home, staying at the motels during the long drive back to Portland. June is a big busiest month of the year!
Monsters University (June 21, 2013 – October 29, 2013)
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MPAA Rating: G
Critic Score: cf-lg78% Certified Fresh
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Consensus: Offering Monsters, Inc. fans a return visit with beloved characters, Monsters University delivers funny and thoughtful family entertainment for viewers of any age.
Grade: B+
Box office: $744.2 million
Plot
A young monster named Michael “Mike” Wazowski (Noah Johnston) dreams of being a scarer; a monster who enters the human world at night to scare children and harvest their screams for energy; when he grows up after visiting Monsters Inc, Monstropolis’s most profitable scaring company, on a school field trip. Eleven years later, Mike (Billy Crystal) is a first-year scare major at Monsters University, where he meets fellow monster James P. “Sulley” Sullivan (John Goodman). Mike studies hard, while the privileged Sulley, coming from a family of talented scarers, relies only on his natural ability and begins to falter. As the semester progresses, Mike and Sulley attempt to join a fraternity, but only Sulley is accepted into the Roar Omega Roar, the toughest fraternity on campus. At the semester’s final exam, a fight between the two causes them to accidentally break Dean Abigail Hardscrabble‘s (Helen Mirren) cherished Scream Can. Hardscrabble promptly fails both of them immediately, stating that Sulley does not study enough, and Mike is not scary enough.
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Wanting to prove himself, Mike enters the university’s “Scare Games” and makes a wager with Hardscrabble to reinstate him and his team to the scare program if they win, but Mike must leave the university if they lose. He joins a group of misfits in the weakest fraternity named Oozma Kappa, but they are denied entry to the Games for being one team member short – until Sulley joins them, seeing the competition as his ticket back into the scare program. Oozma Kappa finish last in the first challenge, but are saved from elimination after another team is disqualified for cheating, and Oozma Kappa advance through subsequent challenges, improving gradually due to Mike’s training and intricate knowledge of scaring. In the final round, they pull off a close victory with a decisive final scare by Mike in the simulation bedroom – however, Mike soon discovers that he only won because Sulley secretly rigged the machine to improve his score.
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Determined to prove he can become a scarer, Mike breaks into the school’s door lab and enters a door to the human world leading to a summer camp, but he is unable to scare a cabin full of children and runs off into the woods. Back at the university, Roar Omega Roar offers to reinstate Sulley, but he refuses, instead confessing to Hardscrabble that he cheated, just as she is alerted of Mike’s break-in. Realizing what happened, Sulley defies Hardscrabble and enters the same door to look for Mike. After finding Mike and reconciling, they try to return, but are unable to exit after Hardscrabble deactivates the door while waiting for the authorities to arrive. Pursued by camp rangers, Mike realizes that the only way to return to the monster world is to generate enough scream energy to power the door from their side. Working together, Sulley and Mike terrify the camp rangers and generate an overwhelming amount of scream energy to return to the lab seconds before the device overloads and explodes in front of Hardscrabble.
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Mike and Sulley are led away by the CDA and are expelled from the university as a result of their actions, but the other members of Oozma Kappa are accepted into the scare program the next semester, as Hardscrabble was impressed by their performances in the scare games. As Mike leaves on the bus, Sulley runs after him to raise his spirits. Hardscrabble then appears and wishes the two luck, claiming they were the first students to have surprised her. The two take jobs in the mail room of Monsters, Inc., eventually working their way up to join the Scarer Team and setting the events of Monsters, Inc. in motion.
Despicable Me 2 (July 3, 2013 – December 10, 2013)
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Awards: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Nominee and Best Original Song Nominee “Happy”
MPAA Rating: PG (for rude humor and mild action)
Critic Score: cf-lg74% Certified Fresh
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Consensus: Despicable Me 2 offers plenty of eye-popping visual inventiveness and a number of big laughs.
Box office: $970.8 million
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A mysterious vehicle using a huge magnet steals a highly potent mutagen known as PX-41 from a secret laboratory in the Arctic Circle. The Anti-Villain League (AVL) tries to recruit former supervillain, Gru (Steve Carell), to find who stole the mutagen, but Gru refuses, claiming he is a legitimate businessman now as well as the father of Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier), and Agnes (Elsie Fisher). Dr. Nefario (Russell Brand), Gru’s friend and assistant, has decided to leave him for new employment, claiming he “missed being evil.” Gru reluctantly partners with undercover AVL agent Lucy Wilde (Kristen Wiig), and they search a local mall, the Paradise Shopping Mall, disguised as bakery employees. Mexican restaurant owner, Eduardo Pérez (Benjamin Bratt), is suspected by Gru of being “El Macho”, a legendary supervillain who supposedly died after skysurfing a shark into the center of an active volcano. Gru and Lucy break into Eduardo’s restaurant at night, but find nothing to prove that he is the culprit. Meanwhile, Agnes expresses her wish to have a mother someday and believes that Gru will fall in love with Lucy, but despite her excitement, Gru tells her that his relationship with Lucy is strictly professional.
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Gru and Lucy investigate wig merchant Floyd Eagle-san (Ken Jeong), but Gru is still suspicious of Eduardo after seeing Eduardo’s two-timing son, Antonio (Moises Arias), going out with Margo, and inviting everyone to his Cinco de Mayo party. Afterwards, Gru is set up on a horrible dinner date with a rude woman named Shannon (Kristen Schaal), who notices Gru’s wig and threatens to humiliate him, but Lucy rescues him by shooting Shannon with a tranquilizer dart. They take Shannon home, and afterwards, Gru realizes that Agnes was right, as he has fallen in love with Lucy.
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The next day, the AVL arrests Floyd Eagle-san due to an almost-empty mutagen jar being found in his shop, and the investigation is closed. Lucy is reassigned to Australia, but before leaving, gives Gru her lipstick Taser to remind him of her. This leaves Gru heartbroken because he loves her, but he cannot find the courage to ask her out on a date. Instead, he brings the girls to the Cinco de Mayo party and finds proof that Eduardo is El Macho. Gru discovers that he and his partner, Nefario, have captured and mutated a large number of Gru’s Minions using the PX41 Serum, turning them into insane Evil Minion. with El Macho planning to send rockets full of mutated Minions to major cities and achieve world domination. El Macho proposes that he and Gru team up, but Gru avoids answering and leaves.
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On her flight to Australia, Lucy realizes she has also fallen in love with Gru and jumps out of the plane, but after hang gliding down to the party, she is captured by El Macho after Pollito, his pet chicken, retrieves her AVL ID badge from her purse. Fortunately, Nefario informs Gru, and to rescue Lucy, Gru visits Macho along with two Minions covered in purple paint, pretending he was captured by them. Fighting alongside his daughters and Nefario, Gru and his team spray all of the mutated Minions with jelly containing a powerful antidote that Dr. Nefario made, whereupon they revert to their friendly yellow state. Macho then takes the mutagen himself, but Gru and Dr. Nefario overcome him using Lucy’s lipstick Taser and a fart gun.
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Gru sees Lucy strapped to a TNT-loaded shark rocket and starts to untie her, but Pollito launches the rocket, sending the rocket flying towards the same volcano where Macho previously faked his death. Lucy accepts Gru’s invitation for a date, and the pair dive into the ocean seconds before the rocket enters the volcano.
After 147 dates, Gru and Lucy are married and Margo, Edith, and Agnes finally have a mother. The Minions close with a rendition of “I Swear” and “Y.M.C.A” as the whole family celebrates.
Turbo (July 17, 2013 – November 12, 2013)
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MPAA Rating: PG (for some mild action and thematic elements)
Critic Score: fresh67%.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Consensus: It’s nowhere near as inventive as its off-the-wall premise might suggest, but Turbo boasts just enough colorful visual thrills and sharp voice acting to recommend as undermanding family-friendly fare.
Box office: $282.6 million
Plot
In a suburban San Fernando Valley garden in Los Angeles, Theo, a.k.a. Turbo (Ryan Reynolds), is a garden snail who dreams of being the greatest racer in the world, just like his hero, 5-time Indianapolis 500 champ, Guy Gagné (Bill Hader). His obsession with speed and all things fast has made him an outcast in the slow and cautious snail community, and a constant embarrassment to his older brother, Chet (Paul Giamatti). Turbo desperately wishes he could escape the slow-paced life he’s living, but his one chance to live proves a near fatal disaster when he tries to recover a prize tomato and needs to be rescued by Chet.
Demoralized, Theo wanders onto a freeway to admire the traffic and wishes he was fast on the first star (which is actually an airplane light). Suddenly, he gets into a freak accident when he gets sucked into the supercharger of a drag racer, fusing his DNA with nitrous oxide. The next day, when Theo wakes up, he now possesses incredible speed and accuracy, as well as some characteristics of an actual car. Unfortunately, Theo’s first attempt to show this power off ends with him crashing a Big Wheel tricycle into the garden, getting himself and Chet fired from the garden crew by their foreman (Paul Dooley).
As the siblings quarrel over Theo’s problems, Chet is snatched by a crow, but is pursued and rescued by Theo at a run down strip mall called Starlight Plaza. There, they are captured by Tito (Michael Peña), a “Dos Bros” taco truck driver, and are brought to a snail race held by him and his co-workers. Theo astounds both humans and snails alike and earns the respect of the snails, led by Whiplash (Samuel L. Jackson), with his crew members Smoove Move (Snoop Dogg), Burn (Maya Rudolph), Skidmark (Ben Schwartz), and White Shadow (Michael Patrick Bell), who have skills of their own. Inspired by this extraordinary snail, Tito dreams to revive the strip mall with Theo as an attraction, and eventually with the help of the snails who manage to divert and strand a tour bus and drum up impressive business. At this success, Theo convinces Tito to enter him in Indianapolis 500 as a competitor. While Tito’s brother, Angelo (Luis Guzmán), still declines to support him, the neighbors agree to put up the entrance fee and accompany them to Indianapolis.
Once there, Tito is refused entry into the race, but a chance meeting with Guy Gagné gives Turbo a chance to show off his speed, astounding the audience and the racers and qualifies for the race. This impossible feat soon becomes a sensation on social media and the CEO (Kurtwood Smith) gives in to the pressure, egged on by Gagné himself, to let the snail compete. However, the night before the race, Turbo is demoralized by Gagné, while Chet confesses that he cannot bear to see his brother endanger himself. Undeterred, Turbo enters the race the next day, but the dangerous racetrack and the more experienced competitors leave him trailing in last place. At a pitstop, Whiplash and his crew give Turbo a vital pep talk, advising him to stop racing like a car. Back in the race, Turbo realizes what they mean and uses his small size to his advantage. With the snail rapidly gaining in the standings, Gagné starts racing dirty and manages to knock Turbo against the circuit wall, damaging his shell and weakening his speed powers.
Eventually, in the final stretch with Turbo in the lead, Gagné tries a desperate maneuver to beat the snail and gets into a major crash that snares most of the competitors in a major pileup. Similarly, Turbo is thrown, waking up from unconsciousness with his shell punctured and his speed gone. Alarmed at seeing Turbo giving up, Chet puts himself into incredible dangers to meet up with Whiplash’s crew to get to the racer. Seeing his brother and the crew arrive on crows to encourage him to continue, Turbo resumes the race. Unfortunately, Gagné, refusing to lose, single-mindedly pursues him by dragging his wrecked car after the snail and attempts to crush him. At the last second, Chet tells Turbo to tuck and roll into his shell at Gagné’s last blow and the force allows him to tumble past the finish line to win. Gagné is then attacked by Kim-Ly (Ken Jeong).
At this victory, Starlight Plaza becomes a major attraction with all the businesses becoming spectacular successes including extremely elaborate snail races with Whiplash’s crew getting special propulsion aids for their shells, while Chet is content as the track referee. As for Turbo, he becomes happier discovering that his shell has healed, and with that, his superspeed has returned.
July 22, 2013 (5th anniversary) – World premiere release of Joel McNeely soundtrack for Walt Disney 2008 animated feature. One of Disney's most beloved characters inspires composer to create magical, playful orchestral score replete with yearning ideas for lost collectibles, lyrical melodies for Tinker Bell, musical wisps for Pixie Hollow, much more. Exotic colors abound. It is a score that literally sparkles with delight. Celtic sounds, birds, crickets, drops of water, all are captured in skillful meld of gently dramatic, hauntingly beautiful musical vignettes. Highlights are plentiful but surely deserving spotlight is "Choosing A Talent" with rich major to minor chords that crescendo into powerful, massive orchestra/choral peroration. Breathtaking! Capturing attention in action mode is powerful "Hawk!", with heroic moment for French horn, trumpet. "Sprinting Thistles" commands as well. For sheer exuberant splendor, listen no further than to "Rebuilding Spring". McNeely shines! And yes, you also get that soaring vocal "Fly To Your Heart" as well. Beautifully packaged, illustrated booklet graces Disney/Intrada co-brand CD. Joel McNeely conducts.
JULY 22, 2013 (5TH ANNIVERSARY) – WORLD PREMIERE RELEASE OF JOEL MCNEELY SOUNDTRACK FOR WALT DISNEY 2008 ANIMATED FEATURE. ONE OF DISNEY’S MOST BELOVED CHARACTERS INSPIRES COMPOSER TO CREATE MAGICAL, PLAYFUL ORCHESTRAL SCORE REPLETE WITH YEARNING IDEAS FOR LOST COLLECTIBLES, LYRICAL MELODIES FOR TINKER BELL, MUSICAL WISPS FOR PIXIE HOLLOW, MUCH MORE. EXOTIC COLORS ABOUND. IT IS A SCORE THAT LITERALLY SPARKLES WITH DELIGHT. CELTIC SOUNDS, BIRDS, CRICKETS, DROPS OF WATER, ALL ARE CAPTURED IN SKILLFUL MELD OF GENTLY DRAMATIC, HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL MUSICAL VIGNETTES. HIGHLIGHTS ARE PLENTIFUL BUT SURELY DESERVING SPOTLIGHT IS “CHOOSING A TALENT” WITH RICH MAJOR TO MINOR CHORDS THAT CRESCENDO INTO POWERFUL, MASSIVE ORCHESTRA/CHORAL PERORATION. BREATHTAKING! CAPTURING ATTENTION IN ACTION MODE IS POWERFUL “HAWK!”, WITH HEROIC MOMENT FOR FRENCH HORN, TRUMPET. “SPRINTING THISTLES” COMMANDS AS WELL. FOR SHEER EXUBERANT SPLENDOR, LISTEN NO FURTHER THAN TO “REBUILDING SPRING”. MCNEELY SHINES! AND YES, YOU ALSO GET THAT SOARING VOCAL “FLY TO YOUR HEART” AS WELL. BEAUTIFULLY PACKAGED, ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET GRACES DISNEY/INTRADA CO-BRAND CD. JOEL MCNEELY CONDUCTS.
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Eileen Brennan (The Last Picture Show, Private Benjamin, Clue) died at her home in Burbank, California, on July 28th, 2013, of bladder cancer. She was 80.
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August 6, 2013 (50th anniversary)
AUGUST 6, 2013 (50TH ANNIVERSARY)
August 6, 2013 (40th anniversary)
AUGUST 6, 2013 (40TH ANNIVERSARY)
August 6, 2013 (25th anniversary)
AUGUST 6, 2013 (25TH ANNIVERSARY)
D23 Expo (2013)
The D23 Expo returned for a third time August 9th-11th, 2013 at the Anaheim Convention Center. The Walt Disney Studios presented exclusive looks at live-action films including Saving Mr. Banks, Maleficent, Muppets Most Wanted, Tomorrowland, and Thor: The Dark World, as well as animated productions from such as The Good Dinosaur, Frozen & Muppets & Fairies’ Wintery Secret, Party Central, and Get A Horse!. Lucasfilm had its first appearance at D23. Media outlets had speculated that casting information for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens would be announced at the event, but no such announcement was made. Walt Disney Parks and Resorts showcased pavilion relating to Avatar Land, future Star Wars attractions, Marvel’s Avengers Academy on the Disney Magic, Disney Springs, and Shanghai Disneyland.
Planes (August 9, 2013 – November 19, 2013)
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MPAA Rating: PG (for some mild action and rude humor)
Critic Score: rotten26%.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Consensus: Planes has enough bright colors, goofy voices, and slick animation to distract some young viewers for 92 minutes – and probably sell plenty of toys in the bargain – but on nearly every other level, its a Disney disappointment.
Grade: C-
Box office: $239.3 million
Plot
Dusty Crophopper (Dane Cook) is a crop duster plane who works at a cornfield and practices aerobatic maneuvers in his spare time, dreaming of becoming a racer. His dreams are scorned by his boss, Leadbottom (Cedric the Entertainer), and his forklift/mechanic friend, Dottie (Teri Hatcher). However, he is supported by his fuel truck friend, Chug (Brad Garrett). Dusty and Chug train for qualifiers for the upcoming Wings Across the Globe race. On the night before the qualifiers, Dusty asks an elderly and reclusive navy war plane named Skipper Riley (Stacy Keach) to teach him how to fly well, but Skipper refuses. Dusty enters the qualifiers, and although the audience mocks him for being a cropduster, he manages to wow them by his well-practiced flight maneuvers; but he barely makes it into the race.
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Later in the morning, Skipper visits Dusty and tries to talk him out of racing, but when Dusty explains he wants to prove he’s more than just a crop duster, Skipper decides to mentor Dusty on his speed and agility. While in the midst of his training, Dusty admits that he has a fear of heights. Despite this, their training continues, and when it is complete, Dusty heads off to the meeting of the race at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. There he befriends an eccentric but loyal Mexican race plane named El Chupacabra (Carlos Alazraqui), who eventually falls in love with a beautiful French-Canadian racer named Rochelle (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), who shows no interest in him. Dusty then makes a rival of the arrogant and villainous 3-time-winner plane Ripslinger (Roger Craig Smith), who rudely dismisses him as being only a crop duster. He also falls in love with a racer plane named Ishani (Priyanka Chopra), who becomes supportive of him. During the first leg of the race from New York to Iceland, Dusty’s refusal to fly high causes him to finish in last place. During the second leg of the race to Germany, Dusty shows good sportsmanship by saving another racer, Bulldog (John Cleese), from crashing when Bulldog’s eyes get squirted with oil from one of his propellers, winning Bulldog’s respect but finishing last again.
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In India, Ishani invites Dusty to fly around the Taj Mahal and advises him to fly low through the Himalayas by following some railroad tracks. However, after encountering a tunnel and barely being able to fly through it, Dusty realizes Ishani deliberately gave him bad advice to get a new propeller from Ripslinger, and he shuns her. As the race continues, Dusty manages to get into first place. In Shanghai, Dusty manages to help El Chupacabra win over Rochelle with a romantic song. In the next race across the Pacific Ocean, Ripslinger’s henchmen, Ned and Zed (Gabriel Iglesias), under orders from Ripslinger, sabotage Dusty’s navigation antenna. Lost and low on fuel, Dusty miraculously comes across the USS Flysenhower (a reference to the real-life carrier) which allows him to land and refuel. While on the carrier, Dusty sees a hall of fame set up for Skipper’s squadron but discovers that Skipper only flew one mission, which contradicts his previous reputation as a veteran of many battles. He is then forced to take off to try and beat an oncoming storm.
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Dusty gets distracted from flying by his thoughts about Skipper and ends up crashing into the ocean but is eventually rescued. He is flown to Mexico to his friends but he is severely damaged and may never fly again. Skipper confesses to Dusty that he did indeed fly only one mission in the Pacific theatre, where his entire squad of trainees was killed in an attack on the Japanese Navy. Skipper was the only survivor, but torn by his guilt, he never trained another plane or flew again. Demoralized and heartbroken, Dusty begins to consider dropping out of the race but is encouraged by his friends, Bulldog, Ishani, and many of his newfound fans to continue, and they all donate parts to have Dusty repaired.
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With a change of heart and morale restored, Dusty becomes determined to continue in the race, but Ripslinger still won’t give up and plots to put an end to Dusty’s competing in the race “once and for all”. He and his goons attack Dusty but are thwarted by Skipper, who has overcome his guilt and come to help Dusty. When trying to catch up with Ripslinger, Dusty conquers his fear of heights when his engine starts losing power, forcing him to ride the jetstream. Both he and Ripslinger make it to the finish line in New York; and when it looks like Ripslinger will win, his ego gets the best of him, and he slows down to have his picture taken. Dusty manages to fly above him and win the race while Ripslinger crashes into some portable toilets. Dusty is congratulated by his friends and fans, and Skipper thanks him for giving him the confidence to fly again. Skipper rejoins the navy briefly in the company of Dusty and they take an honorary flight together, ending the story.
August 13, 2013 (nearly 35th anniversary)
AUGUST 13, 2013 (NEARLY 35TH ANNIVERSARY)
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On August 19th, 2013, Lee Thompson Young (The Famous Jett Jackson, Friday Night Lights, Rizzoli & Isles) died from a gunshot suicide in Los Angeles.
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August 20, 2013
AUGUST 20, 2013
Eugene
At August 21st, 2013 (the month of the D23 Expo), I departed from 3705 NW Columbia Avenue and head on to visit Melissa’s new apartment at Eugene with my mom. We went to visit Hirxons gift shop and visit the University of Oregon. I brought a portable DVD player and a few DVDs (Epic, Return to Never Land, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Oliver & Company (in honor of its 25th anniversary), The Sword in the Stone (in honor of its 50th anniversary), Robin Hood (in honor of its 40th anniversary), and The Muppet Movie (in honor of its 35th anniversary, almost)). I and my sister went to the mall and see Planes.
Since the film is poor-reviewed, I talked to Mom about going to Disneyland this Christmas, but she told me to wait. However, I can’t help it because of the critics.
August 27, 2013
AUGUST 27, 2013
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (September 27, 2013 – January 28, 2014)
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MPAA Rating: PG (for mild rude humor)
Critic Score: fresh70%.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Consensus: While not as clever or inventive as its predecessor, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 compensates with enough dazzling to keep younger viewers entertained.
Box office: $274.3 million
Plot
After Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) and his friends save the world from the food storm in the first film, super-inventor Chester V (Will Forte), the CEO of Live Corp and Flint’s childhood idol, is tasked to clean the island. He relocates Flint, his friends, and the citizens of Swallow Falls to San Franjose, California. Unbeknownst to Flint, the FLDSMDFR survived the explosion and landed in the center of the island, and Chester is determined to find it. Chester invites Flint to work at Live Corp, where he meets Chester’s assistant Barb (Kristen Schaal), a talking orangutan with human intelligence. Six months later, Flint humiliates himself during a promotion ceremony when his invention, the “Celebrationator”, explodes. Meanwhile, Chester is informed that his search-parties on the island have been attacked by monstrous cheeseburgers named cheespiders (a combination of a cheeseburger and a spider) which are learning how to swim. Seemingly fearing the world’s inevitable doom, Chester tasks Flint to find the FLDSMDFR and destroy it once and for all. Despite Chester’s demands to keep the mission classified, Flint recruits his girlfriend, meteorologist Sam Sparks (Anna Faris); her cameraman Manny (Benjamin Bratt); police officer Earl Devereaux (Terry Crews); Steve (Neil Patrick Harris), a monkey who communicates via a device on his chest; and “Chicken” Brent (Andy Samberg). Much to Flint’s dismay, his father Tim (James Caan) joins the crew and they travel to Swallow Falls on his fishing boat.
Upon arriving back at Swallow Falls, they notice that a jungle-like environment made of food has overgrown the island. Tim stays behind while Flint and the others investigate, finding a vast habitat of living food animals called foodimals and meet a cute strawberry nicknamed Barry (Cody Cameron). Tim, searching for sardines at his abandoned tackle shop, encounters a family of humanoid pickles and bonds with them by fishing. Chester discovers that Flint allowed his friends to join him on the mission, so he travels to the island with Barb, chagrined and determined to separate them, and he arrives just in time to save them from a Cheespider. Flint then finds his old lab and invents a device to find the FLDSMDFR. After escaping a Tacodile attack, Sam notices that the foodimal was protecting its family, and begins to suspect Chester is up to no good. Sam attempts to convince Flint to spare the foodimals, but Flint is intent on impressing Chester. Sam leaves in anger, and Flint’s other companions go with her. In the jungle, Manny confirms Sam’s suspicions when he reverses the Live Corp logo to reveal the “Live” as “Evil” spelled backwards. In addition, Sam proves that the foodimals mean no harm by taming a Cheespider. They also learn that the foodimals had known the truth about Live Corp before. Upon realizing Chester’s intentions, the group is then ambushed by Evil Corp employees.
Flint finds the FLDSMDFR, but notices a family of cute, friendly marshmallows and becomes hesitant to destroy the machine. Chester immediately seizes control of the FLDSMDFR and announces his plot to make his updated line of food bars out of the foodimals. A crushed Flint is knocked into the river but rescued by the marshmallows. Flint is taken to his father, and they and the foodimals all work together to allow Flint and Barry to infiltrate the Evil Corp building that is under construction on the island. Barry frees the trapped foodimals while Flint confronts Chester, who threatens to make food bars out of his friends. Chester makes numerous holograms of himself to overwhelm Flint, but Flint uses the Celebrationator to expose the real Chester, allowing Flint to rescue his friends. An army of foodimals led by Barry arrive and fight Chester’s employees. Chester tries to make off with the FLDSMDFR, but is thwarted by Barb, who has a change of heart and Chester gets eaten by a Cheespider. With the island safe from Chester V and Evil Corp destroyed, Flint returns the FLDSMDFR to its place and frees it from Chester’s control and the foodimals continue to live in peace as more are born. The film ends with Flint fishing with his father for the first time, finding it enjoyable.
October 1, 2013
OCTOBER 1, 2013
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The Red Carpet: San Diego (2013)
At October 3rd, 2013, I left the apartment with my mom and head to the airport and board the plane heading to San Diego. I brought a few DVDs (The Little Mermaid, The Croods, The Wizard of Oz (in honor of its 75th anniversary and the IMAX re-release), and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (in honor of its sequel)). I will have my new books from the new Walt Disney Animation Studios’ film inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen, Frozen & Muppets & Fairies’ Wintery Secret (a Walt Disney Animation Studios film and another rare sequel based on Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale The Snow Queen and J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy, featuring Peter Pan, Kermit the Frog, Wendy Darling, Tinker Bell, and the characters from the Disney Fairies and Muppets franchises in a Ice Age European world’s fair tour, an international spy espionage/crime caper and the Norwegian winter story featuring new princesses, Anna and Elsa).
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We stayed three nights at Best Western Hacienda hotel at the Old Town. We went to Fashion Valley to go to the Disney Store (where I collect Sofia, Rapunzel, the stuff from The Little Mermaid (Ariel, Eric, Sebastian, Flounder, Ursula, and Scuttle), and stuff from Frozen & Muppets & Fairies’ Wintery Secret (Anna the summer solstice princess, Tinker Bell, Kermit, Elsa the winter solstice snow queen, Periwinkle the winter fairy, Miss Piggy, Olaf the snowman, Sven the reindeer, and Kristoff the mountain man)). We visited the Old Town where they hold the Art Festival. We went to the film premiere at the Reading Cinema at downtown San Diego. At the hotel, I went to the pool all my myself twice. We went to meet my mom’s friend, Liise and Molly Miller. We went with Molly to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.
At October 6th, 2013, we board the plane and head back to Portland.
People incidents
Marcia Wallace (The Simpsons, The Bob Newhart Show) died from pneumonia and sepsis on October 25th, 2013, aged 70, a week before her 71st birthday.
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Toby Bluth (Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Smurfs) died on October 31st, 2013 in Los Angeles, California following a stroke.
October 29, 2013
OCTOBER 29, 2013
November 5, 2013 (30th anniversary)
NOVEMBER 5, 2013 (30TH ANNIVERSARY)
Diane Disney Miller died on November 19th, 2013 at age 79 from medical complications that developed after a fall.
Jane Kean (The Honeymooners) died on November 26th, 2013 at age 90, at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California of complications from a fall.
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Frozen & Muppets & Fairies’ Wintery Secret (November 27, 2013 – March 18, 2014)
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Awards: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Winner and Best Original Song Winner “Let It Go.”
MPAA Rating: PG (for some mild action, rude humor, peril, language, and thematic elements)
Critic Score: cf-lg89% Certified Fresh
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Consensus: Joyful, beautifully animated, fast-paced, and smartly written, Muppets & Fairies’ Wintery Secret adds another worthy entry to the Disney canon that is stocked with singalong songs to look as iridescently gorgeous as the winter wonderland.
Grade: B+
Box office: $1.276 billion
Plot
Following on from the ending of Muppets & Fairies Treasure Autumn in 2010, Kermit the Frog (Steve Whitmire) and the Muppets find themselves at a loss as to what to do next. Per the suggestions by British tour manager Sir Dominic Badguy (Ricky Gervais), the Muppets decide to embark on a world tour.
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An opening prologue tells that Elsa (Eva Bella), the winter princess of Arendelle, the palace in Norway; possess cryokinetic and frigiokinesis powers, with which they were able to produce or manipulate ice, snow, frost, sleet, hail, and cold at will. One night while playing, Elsa accidentally injures her younger sister, Anna (Livvy Stubenrauch), with her powers. Their shocked parents, King Agnarr (Maurice LaMarche) and Queen Iduna (Jennifer Lee) seek help from Pabbie (Ciarán Hinds), the troll king and shaman who heal Anna and removes her memories of Elsa’s magic. He also informs Elsa that if she had struck Anna’s heart it would have been fatal. In order to protect Elsa and Anna, the royal couple isolates the children in their castle until Elsa learns to control her powers. Afraid of hurting Anna again, Elsa spend most of their time alone in their room, refusing even to speak to Anna, and a rift develops between the sisters as they grow up. When the girls are teenagers, their parents die at sea during a storm.
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In Siberia, Russia, the criminal mastermind Constantine (Matt Vogel), a near-exact double for Kermit in appearance, escapes from a maximum security Gulag 38B. Out in the North Atlantic Ocean, British spy fairy named Finn McMissile (Michael Caine) infiltrates the world’s largest untapped pixie dust reserves, owned by a group of “lemon” fairies, led by unknown mastermind Professor Zündapp (Thomas Kretschmann). After being discovered, he is forced to flee and fake his death.
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Scrat (Chris Wedge), a saber-toothed squirrel climbs a glacier to bury his acorn, but accidentally opens a hole in it, causing water to spurt out. Following on from the events of their last film, Wendy Darling (Chloe Grace Moretz) arrives in Never Land, Hollywood and reunites with Peter Pan (Blayne Weaver) and their colleague Bugs Bunny (Jeff Bergman) to enjoy some quiet time. But when Irish formula tourist fairy named Fionnoula O’Callaghan (Kelly Macdonald) challenges Wendy to a world’s fair called World Global Pavilion Incorporated (WGP Inc.), led by Sir Miles Axlerod (Eddie Izzard), a former pixie dust tycoon, who promote his new cleaning pixie dust named Incanta; she and Peter–along with the Nerdlucks–depart for Oslo where Arendelle and WGP Inc. is located.
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When Anna (Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel) come of age, Arendelle prepares for Elsa’s coronation as queen. Among the guests is the Duke of Weselton (Alan Tudyk), who seeks to exploit the kingdom for profit. Anna explores Arendelle and meets Hans (Santino Fontana), the prince of the Southern Isles. Zündapp and the lemons, secretly plot to secure their pixie dust profits by using an electromagnetic pulse emitter weapon disguised as a television camera to ignite the Incanta pixie dust. Finn and his partner Holley Shiftwell (Emily Mortimer) attempt to rendezvous with American spy fairy Rod Redline (Bruce Campbell) at the WGP Inc. promotional event, to receive information about the mastermind. However, Redline is attacked by Zündapp’s goons Grem (Joe Mantegna) & Acer (Peter Jacobson) and passes his information to Peter before he is captured. As the Muppets begin their tour, Constantine makes contact with Dominic and joins his subordinate; a position Constantine frequently reminds him of; to begin a plot to steal the Crown Jewels of England. Dominic offered to manage the group and schedule the European tour in WGP Inc.
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Despite Elsa’s fears, her coronation takes place with incident. Elsa refuses to grant her blessing and forbids Anna and Hans’s sudden marriage. The girls argue, culminating in the exposure of Elsa’s abilities in an emotional outburst. Panicking, Elsa flees the castle, while inadvertently unleashing an eternal winter/deluge curse on the pavilion. Zündapp tortures Redline and reveals that Incanta can ignite if impacted by a high electromagnetic pulse. Zündapp demonstrates it on Redline, killing him, but not before they realize that he passed this information to Peter. High in the nearby mountains, Elsa abandons her restraint, vowing to never return and building herself a solitary ice palace.
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Once the Muppets arrive in Berlin, Germany, they intend to play a shabby venue, but Dominic secures them a show at a prestigious location. Kermit, frustrated with the troupe’s ludicrous requests for the show, including The Great Gonzo‘s (Dave Goelz) “Indoor Running of the Bulls” and Miss Piggy‘s (Eric Jacobson) five songs and insistent hints at the wedding and marriage, goes for a walk along the deserted canal at Dominic’s suggestion. However, the hooded Constantine ambushes him and slaps a fake mole onto his right cheek, matching Constantine’s own resemble, then slips away. Mistaken for Constantine, Kermit is arrested and sent to the Gulag while Constantine escapes. When everyone in Germany is preparing for the last season of the year: winter (the season of Christmas and Hanukkah), Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) wants to go to the Winter Woods, due to her curious nature. She sees that the tinker fairies, including Fairy Mary (Jane Horrocks) are making baskets which are carried by snowy owls, who then delivers them to the fairies of the Winter Woods, and learns that there will be another shipment tomorrow. Meanwhile, Zündapp, Grem, and Acer uses the weapon on several tourist fairies.
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Later that day, Finn and Holley help Peter evade Zündapp’s goons. Tink volunteers to help her friend Fawn (Angela Bartys) take the animals to the Winter Woods. Peter inadvertently gives Wendy bad racing advice, which causes her to fall second and lose the race to Fionnoula. While Fawn is busy Tink crosses the border into the Winter Woods, and her wings start to glow. But Fawn warns her that her wings are freezing and rushes her off to the hospital with her other friends; Iridessa (Raven-Symoné), Rosetta (Megan Hilty), Silvermist (Lucy Liu), and Vidia (Pamela Adlon). After being fixed by the fairy doctor (Jodi Benson), Tink remains curious about the sparkles and colors her wings made in the Winter Woods. Tink went off to the library, where she finds a book titled Wingology, but unfortunately, a bookworm has chewed the page on “Sparkling Wings” up. Scribble (Thomas Lennon), the fairy librarian with glasses tells Tink that the author of the book, the Keeper, might be able to help her, but he lives in the Winter Woods.
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The world of ice is slowly melting. The creatures are all shown enjoying themselves on slides and pools made by the melting ice at Glacier Fountain, the water park. Sid (John Leguizamo) the sloth, opens a small day camp, where none of the younger creatures take him seriously, nor do Manny (Ray Romano) the mammoth and Diego (Denis Leary) the saber-toothed tiger, which leaves Sid seeking a daring deed.
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After Manny heard the story of a young burro with younger creatures, Fast Tony (Jay Leno), the giant armadillo and local con artist is claiming that the mainland will flood and that the bark and reeds that he sell are needed to stay alive. Manny dismisses the idea, but is distracted when he sees that Sid will try to high dive from a giant waterfall; as Manny goes with Diego to the top of the waterfall to save Sid from her act of daredevilry, suddenly the ice under Diego’s feet was breaking, causing him to bolt in fear, this also made Sid figure that Diego is afraid of the water. They figure that the pleasant sunshine has caused the ice shelves to melt, and it is kept from destroying the valley only by the glaciers, which have formed a dam.
The Lone Gunslinger Vulture (Will Arnett) warns the citizens that a giant sequoia tree can act as an boat that can save them if they make it to the end of the valley within three days time, and all soon set out to find it.As the mammals begin their journey, Sid sings three songs to tease Manny about mammoths being “extinct”. During the evacuation, a glacier which contains two sea reptiles from the Mesozoic era, Cretaceous and Maelstrom, breaks off.
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Taking Kermit’s place, Constantine meets up with the rest of the Muppets and raises the suspicions of no one who all believe him to be Kermit, expect Animal (Eric Jacobson), who bites him. Constantine and Dominic review their plans. The Berlin performance opens with Constantine freezing at the sight of the large audience and Scooter (David Rudman) has to introduce the show. Later, Constantine and Dominic sneak off to steal a selection of paintings from a nearby National Treasure Museum. The next morning after the burglary, Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon (Ty Burrell) and CIA agent Sam the Eagle (Eric Jacobson) team up to begrudgingly form an alliance to apprehend the culprit, whom Jean believe to be his nemesis “The Lemur” – the number two criminal in the world, after discovering a coin-based calling card. Finn drafts Peter into foiling Zündapp’s plot. Finn and Peter escape Grem and Acer and climb aboard Siddeley (Jason Issacs).
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Preparing herself for the Winter Woods and using the final shipment as her only chance, Tink sneaks into the depot and climbs inside one of the baskets and waits for the owls, with the help of his friends, Clank (Jeff Bennett) and Bobble (Rob Paulsen). She gets picked up by an unexperienced owl and makes her way across the border. Suddenly, the owl accidentally drops the basket, and Tink crashes into the snow. Realizing her book has been flung from her bag, she tries to get it back before the frost sparrowman named Sled (Matt Lanter) finds it. However, Milori (Timothy Dalton), the Lord of the Winter Woods finds the book and asks Sled, to return the book to the Keeper.
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Using this as a opportunity, Tink follows Sled to the Winter Library. Upon arriving, she spots Dewey (Jeff Bennett), the Keeper of all fairy knowledge. But before she can talk to him, the frost fairy named Periwinkle (Lucy Hale) rushes into the room and proclaims that her wings are sparkling the day before when Tink’s wings begin to glow and sparkle. An irresistible force guided Tink toward Peri. They ask Dewey to explain what was happening to their wings. Bringing Tink and Peri to a platform and positioning their wings, the whole chamber becomes filled with images explaining their origins. Tinker Bell and Periwinkle realize that they are fraternal twin sisters.
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Suddenly, Milori arrives, concerned about the book, warning Dewey to send any ‘warm’ fairy back to WGP Inc. Dewey tells the two they can spend five days together before Tink has to return home. Peri shows to Tink that she also collects lost things and tries to find a use for them. Next, they go to the Frost Forest to introduce Tink to Gliss (Grey DeLisle) and Spike (Debby Ryan). Following instructions hidden behind the stolen painting, Constantine and Dominic divert the course of the Muppet tour to Madrid, Spain as part of a plot.
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Meanwhile, after being locked in the Gulag, Kermit has attempted multiple escape attempts, all of which are thwarted by Gulag prison officer Nadya (Tiny Fey); knowing of his true identity, Nadya is obsessed with him as Piggy. Nadya orders Kermit to help organize the prisoners’ annual prison talent show. Reflecting on his time with the Muppets, Kermit gains the inmates’ respect. While getting supplies at Oaken‘s (Chris Williams) trading post, Anna meets Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) the ice harvester and his pet reindeer, Sven, and convince him to guide her to the North Mountain, where it locates the ice palace until the wolves attack them.
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Meanwhile, on the train, Constantine wins over Piggy. Arriving in Spain, Constantine informs the rest of the Muppets that they permitted to perform any act they wish, much to Walter‘s (Peter Linz) puzzled suspicion. During this show in Madrid, the Muppets perform while Constantine and Dominic break into a Museo del Prado museum and destroy a roomful of busts in the process to find a key need for their plan. Even though the performance is a disaster that puts the audience to sleep, the Muppets’ performance receive critical acclaim.
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When Manny briefly is separated from them, Diego and Sid encounter two mischievous possums named Crash (Seann William Scott) and Eddie (Josh Peck) who drive them nuts by playing Whac-A-Mole with them. Manny is depressed about being the last mammoth alive and her family, which has been killed, but is surprised when she encounters Ellie (Queen Latifah), the female mammoth who believes she is a possum and Crash and Eddie’s adoptive brother. Sid invites her to tag along with the group to escape the flood, and she brings his brothers. On their journey, the group encounters Olaf (Josh Gad), Elsa and Anna’s childhood snowman, whom the later recreated and unknowingly brought to life. Finn and Holley remove the tracking device on Peter and discover in it a picture of a mysterious British wing, which Peter identified by the wing and some rare parts.
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Finn, Holley, and Peter fly to Paris, France, where they go into a black-market and meet Tomber (Michel Michelis), Finn’s underground informant and old friend. Finn and Holley show the mysterious wing to Tomber, who tells them that the fairy with the wing was his best customer, but he has never met him in person. Peter explains what she knows about the evil Lemons, and realizes that every Lemon involved with the plot is one of “history’s biggest loser fairies.” Tomber tells Finn, Holley, and Peter that the lemon are going to have a secret meeting at the Casino of Gold in Ireland, where the next leg in the World Grand Prix would be held. Jean and Sam deduce that the connection between the crimes in Berlin and Madrid is the Muppet tour, and the pair interrogate the Muppets at a police station to little success. The instructions on the stolen key lead Constantine and Dominic to schedule the next show in Dublin, Ireland.
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After a perilous ordeal with Cretaceous and Maelstrom while crossing a pond, Sid prompts Diego to encourage his to admit and faces his fears – Diego insists that “fear is for prey”, so Sid points out that Diego is behaving as if he is the water’s prey. They discover an area which Ellie recalls as the place of willow trees that shaped the mammoths where she was adopted. She finally realizes she is a mammoth and also expresses her suspicions about how different she was from other possums. Despite this bonding moment with Manny, Ellie distances herself from him when he suggests “saving their species”. Manny and Ellie ultimately make up when they must co-operate to save the group when the ground cracks under their feet. Sid is kidnapped by a tribe of mini-sloths who believe Sid to be a fire worship king. Sid starts fire for them, and believes that he has finally found respect, but they plan to sacrifice him by tossing him into a volcano. Sid narrowly escapes.
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Anna arrives at the ice palace and found Elsa, who stills fears hurting her sister. When Anna insists that we can unfreeze the kingdom, she becomes agitated and her powers leash out, accidentally striking Anna in the heart. Elsa creates a giant snow monster named Marshmallow (Paul Briggs) that throws Anna out of the palace. When Tink and Peri build a campfire to stay warm, Tink realizes that if she can make it warm, Peri can make it cold at Ireland. After Dewey and his pet snowy lynx, Fiona save Tink and Peri from a near death experience, he tells the sisters that Tink has to go home. The sisters realize that they might never see each other again, but Tink comes up with a plan. When the three people reach the border, Tink whispers to Peri to meet her at the border tomorrow.
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When Tink arrives in Dublin, she asks Clank and Bobble for help. Later, Fawn and some of her other friends learn about Tink’s sister and excited at the prospect of meeting her (Peri) decide to help Tink. As the tour reaches Dublin, Walter discovers that Dominic and Constantine had been giving away show tickets and bribing critics and journalists to ensure a packed house and write great reviews, and Fozzie Bear (Eric Jacobson) notices the resemblance between Kermit and Constantine. The two discover that Constantine has taken Kermit’s place. Constantine sees that they have found out, and attacks Walter and Fozzie, but Animal fends him off and the three manage to escape by hopping onto the freight train. They then figure that the best course of action is to go to Siberia and rescue Kermit. Tink arrives at the border with Clank and Bobble pulling along a snowmaking machine. Peri arrives too with her friends, pulling along a big ice cube with Slush (Benjamin Diskin), a glacier fairy.
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Now able to keep Peri cold enough, Peri crosses the border to the warm side of Ireland. Peter infiltrates the criminals’ meeting and discovers Zündapp’s plan. Peri meets Tink’s other friends, which Rosetta gives her a periwinkle flower. Tink notices Peri’s wings wilting. The snowmaker was running out of ice, and there wasn’t enough snow to keep Peri cold, so Tink and Peri return to the border. Grem and Acer, meanwhile, use their weapon on several more tourists during the race, eventually causing a multi-fairy pileup. Wendy beats Fionnoula and finishes first, but bittersweet. Milori appears and instructs Peri how to fix her wings. Queen Clarion (Anjelica Huston) arrives too, and sadly explains to the sisters that they can never see each other again and that it was her who created the rule that warm and cold fairies should remain apart. With the Incanta pixie dust under suspicion, Axlerod suspends its use for the final leg in England. However, Wendy chooses to continue using it. As the sisters leave, the snowmaker gets knocked by Milori into the stream, and creates a snowstorm. Upon hearing that Zündapp and his criminals decided to kill Wendy in the last race, Peter is exposed and captured, along with Finn and Holley, and tied up inside Big Ben’s bell tower in London, England. Peter realizes how foolishly he has been acting.
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Later that day, Clarion and Milori tries to make Tink and Peri understand why the rule about not crossing the border was so important. They are told the story of two fairies who met and fell in love. One of them was a winter fairy and the other was from the warm seasons. They met every sunset at the border, where spring touches winter. But as their love grew stronger, they wished to be together and share each other’s worlds. They disregarded the dangers across the border. One of them broke a wing, for which there is no cure. From that day, Clarion decreed that fairies must never again cross the border and Milori agreed that their worlds should forever remain apart. During the Dublin performance, Dominic steals a locket from the Irish National Bank and during the climax of the performance, Constantine proposes to Piggy onstage; she accepts, and the pair intending to plan a wedding to be held at the Tower of London, where the Crown Jewels are kept. Arriving in London, Constantine and Dominic conspire to use the wedding as a distraction. Before the wedding, Piggy contemplates her impending marriage and future with who she assumes is her true love, Kermit.
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That night, Kristoff introduces Anna and Olaf to the trolls, his adoptive family. Pabbie explains that Anna has struck by Elsa. Unless it can be thawed by an “act of true love”, Anna will become frozen solid forever. Believing that only Hans can save her with a kiss, Kristoff races back with her to the palace. Hans is in search of Anna with the Duke’s thugs and arrive at the ice palace. They defeat Marshmallow and attempt to kill Elsa, thinking it’ll end the winter, but she subdues them. Elsa is knocked unconscious by a falling chandelier and Hans brings her to the castle, where she’s imprisoned in the cell. He pleads with Elsa to undo the winter curse, but she admits she doesn’t know how. Fozzie, Walter, and Animal reach the Gulag on the night of the annual performance and inform Kermit of Constantine’s plot, and Kermit uses the prison show as a front to allow them, himself, and all the prisoners to escape, and they head to England, much to Nadya’s dismay. Anna reunites with Hans and begs him to kiss her to break the curse. Hans reveals that his true intention in marrying her is to seize control of Arendelle’s throne. Leaving Anna, he charges Elsa with treason for her younger sister’s apparent death. But Elsa escaped from the castle.
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Sid finds Manny and tells the others about his experience but none are convinced. The herd find a field of hot geysers, which separate Manny, Sid, and Diego from Ellie, Crash, and Eddie when they argue about which way to go through it. The trapped snowmaker begins to freeze England. Clarion, Tink, her friends, and the seasons’ ministers arrive at the waterfall to find Clank and Bobble attempting to free the snowmaker. They succeeded in pushing the machine down the waterfall, but that it isn’t over. Tink shows that there’s a freeze coming. Clarion told everyone to save Pixie Hollow and the tree or the freeze will kill the tree, eternally, stopping the flow of pixie dust and therefore making it impossible for fairies for fly. All warm nature fairies try everything they can to protect the tree and Tink checking that her furry and insect friends are all snugged up comfy. Tink then notices that a flower that Peri had covered in frost is still alive, despite its cold surroundings.
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The criminals use the weapon on Wendy during the race, but nothing happens. The four Muppets infiltrate the Tower as the wedding gets underway, and Dominic (with the help of Bobby Benson‘s (David Rudman) Baby Band) uses the stolen key and locket to disable the security systems protecting the jewels and successfully steals them. Meanwhile, Manny, Sid, and Diego made to the boat but Gustav (Matt Berry), the secretary bird guards the boat. Tink flew straight to the Winter Woods and ask Gliss and Peri why the flower was still alive. Gliss explains that the frost carries warm air inside, and Peri suggests that they could frost the tree before the freeze comes. Tink, Peri, and the frost fairies rode Fiona to London. Kermit interrupts the ceremony and reveals Constantine’s true identity to be nothing more than an impostor. Meanwhile, Olaf comes across Anna and reveals that Kristoff cares about her; they then escape onto the fjord. Peter warn her friends of a bomb planted in the Tower altar, but Finn and Holley find out that the bomb is actually planted in Peter’s upper forehead. They warn him about the bomb, but he flees to protect his friends. However, he is pursued by Wendy in an attempt to reconcile, unaware of the danger until they are beyond the range of Zündapp’s remote detonator.
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When the flood comes, Manny saves Ellie from drowning as she is caught in the cave (due to falling rocks), while Diego overcomes his fear of water to save Sid, Crash, and Eddie. At the tree, Clank, Bobble, and Tink’s other friends try to place some blankets on the branches, but the strong winds blow them away. To Clarion’s fear and disappointment, the plan is failing but then Tink, Peri and some of her friends arrive explain the power of the frost to Clarion, and they get right to work. Constantine escapes and takes Piggy as his hostage and flees to a waiting honeymoon helicopter out on the Tower runaway. He is intercepted by Dominic, now dressed in a lemur costume, who announces his intend to double-cross Constantine. Constantine responds by ejecting him from the helicopter and tries to take flight with Piggy, but Kermit jumps aboard and intercepts while the rest of the Muppets climb atop each other as a “Muppet Ladder” to stop the escape in its track. Cretaceous and Maelstrom arrive, but due to Manny’s quick thinking, they are finished off by a rock which falls on them, killing them both. Spike realizes that the tree is too big for the others to finish in time. The other citizens are at the mercy of the water currents. Zündapp sends his criminals to kill Wendy and Peter, but they are foiled by the combined efforts of Holley, Finn, and the Looney Tune residents. Upon his capture, Zündapp reveals that only the person who installed the bomb can deactivate it.
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However, Tink spots Milori, Dewey, and the rest of the winter fairies who came to help frost everything everything else that isn’t frozen. Hans confronts Elsa, telling her Anna is dead because of her. In Elsa’s despair, the storm suddenly ceases, giving Kristoff and Anna the chance to locate each other. Accomplished of frosting the whole mainland, Milori states that they’ve done all they can. Milori warns the fairies that the freeze is upon them and they must take cover including Clarion who his gives his cape to so she can keep warm, revealing that he has a broken wing (hence why he flies around on a snowy owl). Milori then orders all the winter fairies to stand guard all over the tree. Some time later, Peter realizes that Axlerod is the mastermind behind the plot and confronts Axlerod, trapping him next to the bomb. Axlerod deactivates the bomb.
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Meanwhile, Scrat climbs up the glacier and at the top sticks the acorn he has into the ice. Kermit knocks Constantine out, with the help of an irate Piggy. Nevertheless, Anna, seeing that Hans is about to kill Elsa with his sword, throws herself between the two just as she freezes solid, blocking Hans’s attack and causing the glacier to form a crack, which widens into a crevasse, diverting the flood and saving the herd. Scrat is then washed away in the torrents. Axlerod and the lemons, along with Constantine and Dominic are arrested. As Elsa grieves for her sister, Anna begins to thaw. Anna’s decision to sacrifice herself to save her sister constitutes an “act of true love.” Nadya arrives in London and attempts to arrest Kermit once more for initiating the prison escape and “break her heart.” The Muppets express her if she arrests him, she will have to take all of them as well. Nadya relents, allowing Kermit to go free and belongs with them and drops the charges. Realizing love is the key to the secret. Elsa thaws the mainland and helps Olaf survive on summer. The freeze begins to melt and pixie dust begins to flow again.
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All the fairies celebrate, however Tink reveals that he had broken a wing when she flies into the Winter Woods and warns Peri to go back to the Winter Woods before her wings wilt. As the sisters hold hands and say goodbye, they reunite their wings and an explosion of pure sparkly light bursts from their wings, slowly magically healing Tink’s broken wing. Clarion and Milori decide to get rid of the rule so that everyone can be together and kiss romantically revealing that they were the fairies that fell in love in the story. As a reward for his heroism, Peter receives an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II (Vanessa Redgrave). It is revealed the camera didn’t trigger Wendy because the Nerdlucks replaced Incanta with gasoline. A herd of mammoths shows up, but Manny and Ellie decide to remain together anyway, taking Sid, Diego, and the opossum brothers along. Sid encounters the mini-sloths again – they believe Sid stopped the flood and invite him to be their leader. Diego, surprised to see the mini-sloths are real, convinces Sid to stay with the others, relucantly admitting that Sid is a viral part of their ‘herd’. Cretaceous and Maelstrom become sushi for the vultures.
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From that day on, warm fairies can cross over the border into the Winter Woods (after they have their wings frosted over to preserve them). Hans is deported to the Southern Isles to face punishment for his crimes against the royal family of Arendelle, while Elsa cuts off trade with Weselton. Friendship in Pixie Hollow becomes whole again as Clarion & Milori and Rosetta & Sled begin their romantic relationships and the sisters reconcile and soon realize that they are half of each other. Elsa promises never to shut the gates again. Finn and Holley ask if Peter can join them on another mission, but he turns it down. The Muppet tour concludes at the Gulag where Constantine is part of the Gulag show. Nadya, apparently having been promised a solo by Kermit, prepares to sing but is cut off by the film’s “The End” logo.
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The epilogue shows Scrat having a near death experience after falling into the fissure. He enters a heaven full of acorns. Suddenly, he finds himself torn away. He unhappily wakes up, having been resuscitated by Sid, who he proceeds to viciously attack.
In the credits scene, Clank overcomes his fear of glaciers through the help of Slush.
People incidents
On November 30th, 2013, Paul Walker (The Fast and the Furious, Pleasantville, Joy Ride) died from the combined effects of traumatic and thermal trauma after the car crashed into a concrete lamppost and two trees on Hercules Street.
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Eleanor Parker (The Sound of Music, Detective Story) died on December 9th, 2013 at a medical facility in Palm Springs, California of complications of pneumonia. She was 91.
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Peter O’Toole (Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, Troy) died on December 14th, 2013 at Wellington Hospital, London, aged 81.
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Redlands, California (2013)
At December 29th, 2013, after four days ago after Christmas, I left 3705 NW Columbia Ave with my dad and went to Portland International Airport where I board the airplane heading for San Bernardino. I brought a few of the DVDs (Monsters University, Despicable Me 2, Cars, Muppet Treasure Island, The Great Muppet Caper, Mary Poppins (in honor of its 50th anniversary and the feature film)).
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I stay with my grandma Joan, my aunt Amy, my uncle Jaime, and Isabella at 972 Lolita Ave. I went to the cider farm for a hike, my grandma Joan’s friend’s house, and Disneyland Resort (as my dream for more stuff from Muppets & Fairies’ Wintery Secret but only until September 2014 after I did the Shamrock Run in March 2014). We visited Joshua Tree National Park. We went to see Frozen & Muppets & Fairies’ Wintery Secret and Saving Mr. Banks.
At January 3rd, 2014, the trip ends and we head back to Portland.
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On December 31st, 2013, James Avery (The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) died at age 68 from complications following open heart surgery at Glendale Memorial Medical Center at California.
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