AVATAR Spoiler

Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is a Marine who was paralyzed in battle. His twin brother, Tommy, had been training for three years to control an Avatar on Pandora, a planet that humans have invaded in hopes of getting Unobtainium, a precious metal. Jake is recruited when his brother dies to take over his Avatar, a hybrid of the DNA of a human and a Na'vi, one of Pandora's indigenous people. He is transported to Pandora via a cryo-chamber, and disembarks using an oxygen mask since humans cannot breathe the air on Pandora.

When Jake arrives at Pandora, he meets Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver) and a fellow Avatar driver named Norm Spellman (Joel Moore). Grace is pissed that Jake is there, saying that she needs Tommy, who had trained for this. However, she puts Jake in his "link," which puts his brain in control of the Avatar. Once he awakens in his Avatar body, he immediately disobeys the orders of the doctors, who want him to ease into things. He runs out of the facility, joyful that he has the use of his legs.


Grace meets with Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi), who seems to be the mastermind behind the invasion. The military leader is Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang). Grace is upset that Parker keeps trying to nose his way into the Avatar program, which is her department.

Jake, Norm, and Grace take their Avatars over the wall of the facility in a helicopter flown by Trudy Chacon (Michelle Rodriguez). She drops them off for their canvassing mission, and Jake wanders away from the group. Here, he runs into a dinosaur-like creature who nearly attacks him. Grace tells him not to shoot it, as the creature's skin is too thick for bullets. However, a different creature (I forget the names of these, it looks like a panther) arrives and starts to attack Jake. Grace screams at Jake to run, which he does. He only escapes by jumping off a cliff into a huge waterfall. However, now he is separated from the group.

Grace, Norm, and Trudy fly over until nightfall trying to find him, but have to follow orders not to be out at night. Grace fears Jake will not survive the night alone on Pandora.

Jake is wandering around the forest at night, where a ton of different creatures are wandering around. We see Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), a Na'vi, perched on a branch above him. She is about to shoot him with an arrow when a little sea-anemone looking thing lands on her arrow. This seems to be a sign to her, and she does not shoot.

Later, Jake finds himself in the middle of a pack of the panther-like creatures that attacked him before. Eventually he tries to fight them off, and is about to lose when Neytiri runs over and starts killing the creatures with her bow and arrow. Jake thanks her profusely, but she is very upset about having to take the life of these innocent creatures. Jake follows her through the forest, asking her to teach him how to defend himself. She is going to refuse, but suddenly those anemone creatures are all around them again. Thousands of them perch on Jake's body, and Neytiri looks stunned. She takes him to a clearing, where a bunch of Na'vi ride up on Pandora's version of horses. They want to kill Jake, since they know he is one of the "sky people," a human in an Avatar's body. However, Neytiri says he was chosen by Eywa, their deity. They agree to bring him back to their Home Tree, where the final decision will be made by the leaders.

At Home Tree, Jake meets Neytiri's parents, Moat and Eytukan, who are the leaders of this clan of Na'vi. They are angry at Neytiri for bringing Jake, who repeats that there was a sign from Eywa. Jake says all he wants to do is learn, and they agree to let him stay on the condition that Neytiri teaches him everything. She complains about this responsibility but her parents' word is final. They all go to sleep, and Jake wakes up in his human form, back at the base. Grace and Norm are relieved that his Avatar is safe, and grill him for details. They are impressed that he survived the attack of the creatures and has somehow gotten in with the Na'vi. They want him to use this position to try to find a diplomatic solution. However, Colonel Quaritch also meets with Jake and tells him to use this position to find out their weaknesses, so the military can now how they can best beat the Na'vi. He says that if Jake does this, he will see to it that Jake gets an expensive surgery to regain use of his legs.


There is a montage of Neytiri teaching Jake different things, including the language of the Na'vi and how to ride the horses. The braids that the Na'vi wear intertwine with the reins of the horses, so they are linked through their minds. Jake keeps falling off his horse, and Neytiri makes him try again and again. Jake is getting more involved with the clan, and convinces them to let Grace's Avatar visit, which she does. Neytiri is also trying to teach him how to make a clean kill. Once he finally does, while saying a prayer over the corpse, she says he is ready. She takes him to the lair of her Banshee, a pterodactyl-like bird that she can also ride using the connection of her braid to his. Neytiri says that unlike the horses, each Na'vi rides only one Banshee for life, and Jake has to find his.

The two of them, along with some other Na'vi, climb up a huge structure in the sky to get to where the Banshees live. Neytiri tells Jake that he will know what Banshee is meant for him, since all the others will fly away in fear, but his will try to kill him. Jake finds a Banshee that stands up to him, and tackles the Banshee to try and make the first connection. Jake is nearly killed but finally makes the connection and takes his first ride. He says in voiceover that horses are not for him, but he was made to fly. Neytiri joins him on her own Banshee, and they exchange many loving looks.

Suddenly, they are attacked by the Leonopteryx, a huge dragon-like creature that is easily five times as big as a Banshee. They fly down to the ground and somehow shake off the Leonopteryx.

Every time that Jake's Avatar goes to sleep, he wakes up in his human form. When he is human, he makes video logs talking about what he has done on Pandora. One set of logs he keeps for Grace, and another he sends to Colonel Quaritch. He doesn't send one to Quaritch for a while, so the Colonel is getting suspicious that Jake's head isn't in the game. Jake says he just needs more time before they attack; he wants to find some sort of a diplomatic solution.

Back on Pandora, Neytiri takes Jake to a sacred area, where the Na'vi can make connections to Eywa, and can hear the memories of their ancestors. Neytiri says that by bringing Jake there, she has solidified his position in the clan and he will officially be made one of them. She says he can choose a woman, and makes suggestions as to who he might pick. He says he's already made his decision, but this woman has to choose him in return. Neytiri says she has, and they make love. Neytiri says that doing so in the presence of Eywa has mated them for life. They go to sleep.

Neytiri wakes up the next morning to the sound of a bulldozer coming through the trees. The humans have come in to take down the trees of Eywa. Neytiri is screaming with anguish and trying to get them to stop. Jake is still asleep, and is not in his link back at the base. Grace forces him to eat before linking again. He finally links at just the right time, before they are run over by the bulldozer. He waves his arms frantically to try to get the bulldozer to stop, which it does for a split second before starting again. Colonel Quaritch is controlling the bulldozer. Jake jumps on the machine and breaks the cameras so they cannot control it anymore. Colonel Quaritch looks at the video and realizes that this is Jake; he realizes Jake has switched sides.

Back at Home Tree, everyone is distraught that Eywa's valley has been destroyed by the humans. Grace is there as well, in Avatar form. The Na'vi are angry with them for bringing the sky people there, although they say they had nothing to do with it. Suddenly, Teu'tey, a Na'vi that has never really warmed to Jake, realizes that Neytiri and Jake have mated. Grace is stunned. Back at the base, Colonel Quaritch storms into the link area and breaks Grace's and Jake's links. Grace yells at Parker, saying they need more time; Quaritch and Parker want to attack Home Tree, which sits on top of Pandora's biggest Unobtainium deposit. They agree to let Jake and Grace link up again to try and get the Na'vi out of Home Tree.

Jake and Grace go to Home Tree to try and convince them to leave, since they know Colonel Quaritch and Parker will not wait to attack. Jake admits he knew from the beginning they were planning this, and Neytiri starts to sob, saying she trusted him. He tries to tell her that everything changed, he fell in love with her and Pandora, but she screams at him to leave. Grace and Jake are tied up as the military starts to arrive. The aircraft start to attack with bombs; the Na'vi retaliate with arrows that have no effect. Moat, Neytiri's mother, unties Grace and Jake, saying if they are truly Na'vi, they need to help them. Trudy is in one of the helicopters, but leaves, saying she didn't sign up for this. Eventually, the bombs cause Home Tree to crack and collapse. Neytiri's father is killed in the battle and the military retreats. Once again, Quaritch breaks Grace and Jake's links. They are screaming that he is a murderer, and they along with Norm are placed in a prison cell.

Trudy brings the prisoners food, but pulls a gun on the guard and frees the three of them with the help of Max, a doctor in the Avatar program. As they are leaving, Jake tells Max to stay behind, as he needs someone he can trust on the inside. Trudy starts up her helicopter and is detected by Quaritch, who bursts out into the hanger and starts shooting. The four of them barely get off the ground; they are going to the Floating Mountains, where they have another link station and they cannot be tracked as they are too high up in the atmosphere. As they fly, Jake realizes that Grace has been shot and is bleeding profusely.

Once they arrive at the link station, Jake decides that he has to regain the trust of the Na'vi. He takes his Banshee and decides to try and make a connection with the Leonopteryx, who would not be expecting this. He succeeds in training the creature, and flies it to the Tree of Souls, where the Na'vi have relocated. Once they realize he has trained the beast, they are in awe of him. Neytiri says she was afraid for her people, but isn't anymore. She says "I see you," which is the highest statement of love between the Na'vi; it means they see into one another's souls. Jake returns the sentiment, but quickly says that he needs help, as Grace is dying.

Grace and her Avatar are both brought to the Na'vi, where Moat performs a ritual that would put Grace's consciousness permanently into her Avatar so she would not need to be linked, and she would survive this way. Despite all their pleas to Eywa, her injuries were too great and she dies. Jake then gives a speech that he knows the sky people are planning to attack again, and they must stand up and fight. They have to enlist all the other clans on Pandora, which they then do. Back at the base, Quaritch sees via radar that their numbers are slowly growing to over two thousand Na'vi. Max sends a video message to Jake, Grace, and Trudy that they are planning to mobilize and attack the Tree of Souls.

Jake is alone at the Tree of Souls, where he makes a plea to Eywa to help his people, the Na'vi. Neytiri comes up behind him and says despite his efforts, Eywa does not take sides; she only protects the balance of life. They embrace.


The final battle begins with ground troops coming in. They notice that something is getting closer and closer on the radar; it is the Na'vi, on their horses. In the air, the military's planes are planning to attack when they are attacked by Na'vi on Banshees - Jake and Neytiri are among these soldiers, while Norm is on the ground. The Na'vi on the ground are being decimated, as they are going up against guns with bows and arrows. Those in the air are causing some damage, but not enough. Trudy is attacking Quaritch's plane with her own helicopter but is hit and her helicopter explodes, killing her. Norm is also shot on the ground, and awakens in his link station, gasping for air. Neytiri is attacked by a plane and falls to the forest floor, but survives. Jake is trying to coordinate with his friends but gets no reply.

Neytiri is on the ground, hiding, but surrounded by humans. Jake screams at her not to attack, as she will certainly be killed. She does not listen, and prepares her bow to fight to the death, but suddenly the humans stop. They have detected something else approaching on radar. Suddenly, all the creatures from the beginning (the dinosaur and panther-looking creatures) charge the humans, who start being killed in droves. Neytiri screams with joy that Eywa listened to Jake.

Jake attacks Quaritch's plane, but Quaritch somehow escapes by getting into a huge robot-like shell that humans can control in battle. He falls to the forest floor and starts fighting with Jake man-on-man. They are right next to the link station where Jake is still linked to his Avatar. Quaritch hits the link station, which causes a small hole to form in Jake's bed. Since humans cannot breathe Pandora's air, his human body, still linked to his Avatar, starts choking. Jake, in his Avatar form, is still fighting but is pinned by Quaritch, who is about to kill him when Neytiri appears and shoots two arrows right through Quaritch's chest.

Once he is dead, she runs over to Jake, who has fallen unconscious due to the trauma his human form is going through. Back in his human form, he stumbles out of his link station but cannot reach the emergency oxygen mask due to his paralysis. He falls to the floor and stops breathing. Neytiri tries to awaken his Avatar form but can't. She then runs into the link station and puts the oxygen mask on Jake's human form. He wakes up and is able to breathe again. She cradles him in her arms and they both say "I see you."

Jake, in his human form, gives his last video log. He says the humans were sent back to Earth, and only a few (Norm and Max) were allowed to remain behind. He says that he can't be late to his own party, and signs off. At the Tree of Souls, Moat and Neytiri are performing the same ritual they tried to perform with Grace. Jake's consciousness is permanently put in his Avatar form, and he opens his eyes.

KUNG FU PANDA 2 Spoiler

A legend is told of the Kingdom of Gongmen City, ruled by a family of peaceful peacocks, known for their elaborate and beautiful fireworks. The son of this peacock family, Lord Shen (Gary Oldman), sees the destructive capabilities of these fireworks when made into cannons, and casts a fearful shadow over the kingdom. A goat soothsayer (Michelle Yeoh) foretells that Lord Shen's tyranny will come to an end by "one of black-and-white." Shen and his army of wolves lay siege to the peaceful pandas of China, killing many and driving the rest out of the land.


In the Valley of Peace, Po (Jack Black) and the Furious Five: Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Viper (Lucy Liu), and Crane (David Cross) are having a dumpling eating contest. Po manages to stuff forty dumplings into his mouth before gagging. He is summoned by Shifu who meditates in a relaxing pool by the sea. Po arrives and learns that Shifu has recently discovered inner peace, which has given him heightened control over his senses. Shifu catches a single droplet of water in his hand, and rolls it across his body like a marble before delicately placing it onto a small sapling. Shifu promises that Po, in time, will also achieve inner peace, too. The Furious Five arrive alerting Po and Shifu to an attack taking place in the valley.

Po and the Five fly into the valley and are shocked to find hundreds of wolves pillaging the city's metal (pots, pans, instruments, etc.) A fight ensues in which many wolves are beaten unconscious. The one-eyed Boss Wolf (Danny McBride) fights Po, and is about to lose when Po is distracted by a familiar symbol painted on the Wolf's armor. Po is instantly taken back into a memory of his while a baby. Po's Panda mother places Po down, turns, and flees. Po, with his guard down, is sucker-punched by the wolf, who along with his comrades, flee with the city's metal. The Furious Five are shocked by Po's loss of concentration and watch as he hurriedly runs away.

Po runs to his Goose father's noodle shop. Mr Ping (James Hong) is reaping the benefits of having the dragon warrior, a bona fide celebrity, for a son. Business is booming. Mr Ping reluctantly tells Po of the day they first met. Po was just a baby who happened to appear one morning in a bushel of radishes. Ping took the baby panda in, fed him, clothed him, and eventually raised him as his own son.


We return to Gongmen City where three highly-renown kung fu warriors stand guard at the city palace: Master Thundering Rhino (Victor Garbor), Master Oxen (Dennis Haysbert), and Master Croc (Jean-Claude Van Damme). The banished Lord Shen enters the palace walls and a massive kung fu fight erupts among the four of them. Shen's wolf army arrives, bringing with them a massive, draped cannon. Thundering Rhino, confident in his Kung Fu, stands up to Shen's weapon, but is easily killed by a single blast. Lord Shen and his army take over the city, and erase any remnants of the peaceful Peacock family that once ruled the city. The power of Lord Shen's weapon sends ripples across China, eventually reaching Shifu, Po, and the Furious Five. It is decided that Po and the Five will set out to Gongmen City to join it's own Kung Fu masters and defeat Shen.

The six set out for Gongmen City, but not before Mr Ping gives Po a ruck-sack overstuffed with food, photos and Po's Furious Five action figures (important.) The six cross China by foot, air, and boat. During their travels Po repeatedly attempts to find his inner peace, via Shifu's water droplet technique, but is unable to attain it. They ultimately arrive at Gongmen City, only to find it's citizens terrorized by wolves. In the city jail, they find Masters Oxen and Croc willfully sitting in jail, both saddened by the fact that Lord Shen's cannons have bested Kung Fu and that they have nothing to live for, and will neither leave the jail or help Po and the Five. The six trek across the city anyway, as stealthily as possible. A foot chase ensues between Po and the Wolf Boss, which culminates with the six arriving at the Palace walls, surrounded by hundreds of wolves. Po, Tigress, Monkey, Viper, and Crane are all placed in handcuffs while Mantis is thrown into a small cage. The Six are hauled to the top of the palace's tower where they find Lord Shen, the Soothsayer, dozens of guards, and a gigantic dragon-shaped cannon. It is revealed that Mantis has escaped, his action figure stands in the cage instead of him, and has managed to free the rest of the Kung Fu Masters. A brief fight erupts between the six, Shen, and Shen's guards, which ends with Shen's massive cannon plummeting to the bottom of the tower, and crashing into a twisted mess. Po is about to beat Shen when the same symbol from before distracts Po. Shen flees the tower, flying to a neighboring building in the distance where dozens of similar cannons are revealed, all pointing at the tower. Shen orders his wolf soldiers to fire at the tower. Po and the Furious Five first attempt to flee the burning tower by descending it's staircases, but find their path blocked by archers. Instead, they head up the tower, which has now begun to sway on an uneven base, and ride the tower down as it crashes onto the city walls. The six, all safe, hide in the Gongmen City Jail.

Tigress, angry at Po for his inability to concentrate, orders him to stay in jail with Croc and Oxen while the Five look for another way to take out Shen. The Five track Shen to his foundry, and upon locating a few dozen barrels of gunpowder, intend to blow-up Shen, his army and his foundry. They're completely unaware that Po has broken out of jail and is also making his way to the foundry to confront Shen. The Furious Five fight Shen's wolves while Po and Shen battle one-on-one. Po forces Shen into a corner, ready to deliver the final blow, but is surprised to find himself staring down the barrel of one of Shen's cannons. Shen lights the fuse, shooting Po point-blank in the stomach. Po soars out of the foundry's window, landing miles away in a river.


Po awakens and finds his arm bandaged and acupuncture needles stuck into various points on his body. The Soothsayer goat rescued him from the river and has helped his recuperation. She tells him how the land they're on once belonged to Pandas before Lord Shen's purge, and how she feels responsible because it was her vision that influenced Shen's actions. Po surveys the land, and little-by-little he pieces together his past. He walks beneath a dribbling stream of water, catches a single droplet, rolls it over his body like a marble and drops it into a sapling nearby. Now fulfilled with inner peace Po sees his entire childhood pass before his eyes. Po's Panda father bursts into their home, and implores that his mother and Po flee before the wolves arrive. Po's mother, with baby Po in her arms, silently descends a small hill, and places Po into a radish basket, climbs the hill, waves her own arms and leads Shen and his men away from Po, and she is presumably killed. Bolstered by this knowledge Po gathers the courage to return to Gongmen City and save the Furious Five and defeat Shen.

Tigress, Monkey, Crane, Mantis and Viper are chained to the bow of a ship. Lord Shen's fleet of ships slowly makes it's way through the city's main narrow canal. A gigantic cannon is perched upon the deck of each ship. Po appears atop the roof of a building, from which he dares Shen to fight him. Po clumsily descends to the boats where he accidentally manages to cross the cannons of neighboring boats, which fire upon one another. Amidst the chaos, Po frees the Furious Five and tells them that the plan is to keep Shen from reaching open water. Shifu suddenly arrives, with Croc and Oxen in tow. The nine Masters discover that the only way to slow Shen down is to block the passage ahead. Piling boat upon boat, they soon create a log-jam preventing Shen from moving forward. Shen, angrily orders the boss Wolf to fire upon the pile of debris, and the wolves trapped within it. The Boss Wolf refuses and is killed by Shen. Shen lights the cannon, fires at the wreckage, and clears his path ahead.

Lord Shen pushes his remaining boats into the harbor. Po and the Furious Five, alive but weak, cling to floating wreckage ahead of Shen's boat. Po swims away from Tigress, and balances on a floating piece of wreckage bobbing in the water directly ahead of Shen's ship. Po remembers all that he has learned of inner-peace: catching the water droplet and carefully controlling it. Shen fires upon Po. Po miraculously catches the cannon ball, like the droplet, spins it in his hands, and tosses it aside. Shen orders all of his ships to fire on Po, who easily catches the incoming cannon balls, and diverts them away from him, and back to the ships. He destroys them one-by-one, until only Shen's ship remains. Shen fires the final cannon-ball which Po catches, twists around and fires directly back at the cannon's barrel, destroying the cannon from within. Po jumps up onto the barely floating remnants of Shen's ship. Shen asks how Po attained inner peace after knowing what Shen did to his family. Po responds that he has scars but that they will fade in time. A brief scuffle erupts between Po and Shen, which culminates with Shen dropping his own cannon onto himself, killing him, and fulfilling the Soothsayer's prophecy.


Po returns home to the Valley of Peace where he speaks to his father, Mr Ping, about his journey, and accepts that Mr Ping, while not a Panda, is his father. Po offers to help his dad in the kitchen. The camera pulls out from the Valley of Peace, zooming across mountains, valleys, lakes, and eventually comes to a stop at a distant, unknown rice patty where dozens of pandas work. An older, male panda turns to the camera, and sensing a change in the air says "My son is alive."

RANGO Spoiler

The movie starts with a shot of a chameleon (Johnny Depp) in a desert landscape acting the part of a hero, as he addresses other "people". We see him talking to a headless doll, dead cockroach and plastic palm tree and you realize he is acting. Shot pans out, and we see he is in an aquarium, obviously lonely with only the inanimate objects in his cage to talk to. He starts thinking about who he is, and how his life needs a change, and the movie pans out even wider and we see that his aquarium is in the back of a family van out in the desert traveling down the road. The car swerves to miss something in the road and the aquarium goes flying out the back, crashing onto the road leaving the chameleon out alone in the very hot desert.


As he is standing by the road, he hears a voice. He goes to investigate and sees an armadillo (Alfred Molina) that has obviously been run over by a car. He tries to help the armadillo get back on his feet, but he can't, the armadillo tells him that he was trying to cross the road and that he will see him later on. The chameleon continues walking down the road when he meets up with the armadillo once again - the armadillo tells him there is a town in the desert, just to follow his shadow. He doesn't quite believe him but seeing no other options heads off into the desert. Meanwhile, there is a Mariachi band made up of owls who act as narrators that introduce us to the main character and tell us that he's going to die. As he is walking in the desert a voice tells him to blend in, and we see a frog that is so well camouflaged you can't tell him from the sand. A hawk appears overhead and chases the lizard. He finds a bottle and climbs inside, but the hawk breaks the bottle and he ends up rolling through the desert. Finally, the hawk grabs the frog and flies off.

He wanders for awhile then ends up falling asleep in a drainage ditch. He begins dreaming about riding the plastic fish from his aquarium then wakes as water washes him out of the spout and back on to the sand. As he runs around trying to drink some of the water it evaporates in the extreme heat leaving him with nothing. While he is scrambling in the sand a lizard appears, riding a wagon, she asks him who he is and what he's doing in the desert. She introduces herself as Beans (Isla Fisher) and he ends up hitching a ride into the town of Dirt. She drops him off within sight of the town then continues on without him. He walks into town and is accosted by some local children, telling him that he is a stranger and that strangers don't last long in Dirt. He goes in to the local saloon, and everyone goes quiet as he enters. He asks for some water and they all laugh at him. They start asking him who he is, and he realizes that since no one knows him, he can be whoever he wants. He pretends to be a tough gun fighter named Rango and tells them stories about where he's from and how he killed 7 local brothers with one bullet. They are all impressed by him, and he is obviously really getting in to the part. The local bullies come in, and he ends up inadvertently offending them. He is then challenged to a gun fight, since everyone thinks he's a great hero he really can't say no and tries to talk his way out of is. While standing out in the street preparing to get shot, the hawk appears and frightens everyone away. Rango doesn't see it, and things they are afraid of him and everyone is impressed that he's not afraid of the bird, it then chases him around the town, and he ends up accidently killing it with one shot further impressing everyone in town. The mayor makes him sheriff and tells him the town needs something to hope for.


Meanwhile, we see Beans going to the bank, where the currency is water, and asking for a loan so she can keep her recently deceased father's farm. The banker confides in her that the bank is almost out of water and that he can't giver her a loan. As Rango is getting outfitted to be the new sheriff, the town clock strikes noon and everyone in town comes out to the main street and performs some kind of ceremony. They all end up at a large spigot which the Mayor has turned, once it's turned on only a tiny bit of mud comes out. All of the towns people are upset, as this is their only source of water. While all this is going on, Beans lets slip that the bank is almost out of water which starts a riot at the bank. Rango goes to the bank and tells the towns people that he will solve the water problem and not to worry, to trust him. They do, and they all go about their business.

That evening, while Rango is sauntering through town, some moles dig up through the main street, they are obviously looking to rob the bank and got lost. Not realizing this Rango, thinking they are miners, give them more digging equipment, a license to mine and points them towards the bank. They thank him, cut to the next morning when everyone finds out the banks been robbed, the water is gone. They round up a posse to find the thieves. They follow the tunnel underground and find a pipe, the pipe ends up leading them out to the desert and they find the mole and his boys. The posse decides they can take the robbers with their greater numbers and confront them. The mole laughs as about 30-40 other moles pop up out of the ground, pushing the odds in their favor. Rango and the posse jump on to the wagon carrying the water bottle and start to drive away, the moles then attack them, riding on bats and after a long chase, the water bottle ends up falling off the wagon and everyone sees its empty. The moles then confess that it was empty when they got it, meaning the bank had already been robbed.

Rango tries to decide who could have robbed the bank and remembers something the mayor had told him when he made him sheriff, "Whoever controls the water, controls everything". Back in town, the mayor realizes the Rango suspects him and brings in a hired gun fighter, Jake the rattle snake, Jake confronts Rango in front of everyone and exposes him as a fraud. He leaves wandering back into the desert and dropping his sheriff badge. He feels like he let everyone down, especially Beans who he had really grown to care for. Once he reaches the road, he walks across, mindless of the cars and trucks going all around him, and he reaches the other side. Once he is on the other side we can see he has just given up and lets himself fall down the ledge. Some pill bugs collect the now unconscious Rango and carry him away. He wakes up in a bright dream like desert where he sees the legendary figure referred to as the "Spirit of the West" an old cowboy (Timothy Olyphant). Rango realizes that he can be the hero he was pretending to be, and the armadillo from the movie shows up shows him that just over the next dune is Las Vegas. He sees the city, the vegetation and the water and realizes that he needs to stop the Mayor and save the town. He sees a pipe leading into Las Vegas and realizes that its connected to the pipe from town and sees that someone has turned the shutoff valve that leads to the town of Dirt. Forming a plan he heads back to Dirt where Beans is about to sell her fathers farm to the Mayor, the Mayor has bought all of the farm lands for next to nothing because there was no more water making them useless, no one knows that he has turned off the water for that very purpose. Now that Rango is out of the way, the mayor turns on Jake and is going to kill him.

Rango goes back and calls Jake out. Jake comes out to confront Rango in the street and ends up right over the boarded up hole that was dug by the mole bank robbers. Rango has the water from the pipe turned back on, and the water comes bursting up out of the hole, throwing Jake up into the air. The whole town explodes as water comes up all over, and the townspeople are all overjoyed. Their town is saved. The mayor ends up out in the street and is taken away by Jake in revenge for his almost killing him.

Rango becomes the true hero he was pretending to be, and finally knows who he is.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (2011) Spoiler

A pair of fishermen on their boat of the coast of Spain pull an old man out of the ocean who became entangled in their fishing net. He gasps “Ponce de Leon” and the men quickly sail to shore and bring him to the Spanish monarch. The young monarch learns of the Fountain of Youth and demands that his men set sail at once to find the ship.


In England, a pair of guards escort a masked prisoner into a loud courtroom which is holding the trail of Captain Jack Sparrow. The prisoner is brought in and mask is removed to reveal that the prisoner is none other than Joshamee Gibbs (Kevin McNally), Sparrow’s first mate. He tries to convince the people he’s not Jack Sparrow, but the crowd demands blood and calls for a hanging. The court allows the judge to enter the proceedings and Gibbs is surprised to see that it’s Jack dressed like the judge. Jack commutes Gibb’s sentence to life in prison, bribes the carriage driver and gets into the prisoner carriage with Gibbs.

Jack explains that he returned to London as soon as he heard about Gibbs’ capture. Gibbs tells Jack that someone claiming to be Jack Sparrow is looking for people to join his crew and that he was mistakenly captured when he arrived at the bar. Jack is confused and tells Gibbs that he isn’t looking for a crew. He shows Gibbs the map to the Fountain and tells him that he hit a bit of a snag trying to locate it. As the two finish talking the carriage stops and the door opens to reveal several soldiers pointing their guns at the pair.

Jack is escorted to the chambers of King George. The King does not want the Spanish monarchs, a “bunch of Catholics” to have control over the Fountain of Youth and wants Jack to guide a ship to the Fountain. The king’s privateer peg legged privateer captain enters the room and is none other than Hector Barbossa. Jack is furious to learn that Barbossa “lost” the Black Pearl at sea with his leg and angrily insists that Barbossa should join it. The King asks Jack if he has the map and Jack realizes that Gibbs took it while they were in the carriage. He organizes a complex escape from the room and the building. The guards pursue him through London by carriage until Jack final gives most of them the slip by jumping off of his carriage. He turns around to find a guard pointing a gun at him but the guard is quickly shot by Captain Teague (Keith Richards), Jack’s father.

Teague takes Jack to the bar where the imposter Jack is organizing a crew. Teague asks Jack if he knows anything about the ritual of the Fountain and warns Jack of the tests that will lie in his path. He points out the men who have joined the crew and have a ship and disappears, leaving Jack to his own devices.

Jack confronts the men who in turn believe Jack to be an imposter. He sees the imposter by an adjacent door and follows him. The two duel for a bit before Jack recognizes the fighting style of the imposter, and going straight for a kiss. He pulls the fake beard off of his opponents face and asks Angelika (Penelope Cruz) what she thinks she’s doing. Angelika explains that she’s after the Fountain and needs a crew to get it. She asks Jack if he still has the map and he tells her that he memorized it. Jack apologizes for ruining her life by preventing her from taking her vows and says that he honestly mistook her convent for a brothel, a mistake anyone could have made. Before they can go at it again, British soldiers arrive hunting for Jack. Jack and Angelika fight them all and eventually dive down a cellar which leads out into the Thames. They climb out and get back to shore but Jack is knocked out by a tainted dart while asking Angelika about the ritual of Fountain.

When Jack comes to he finds himself aboard the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the ship of the feared pirate Edward Teach popularly referred to by his nickname, Blackbeard. Jack is furious to have been conscripted into helping Blackbeard, a ruthless killer. Angelika explains that Blackbeard believes her to be his daughter and that she is desperate to find the Fountain and that Jack will be their compass. Jack sees a man strapped to the top of the mast and is told by a fellow crewman that the man is part of the clergy, allowed to live only by Blackbeard’s grace.

That night, Jack organizes a mutiny against Blackbeard by convincing the crew that, since they haven’t seen Blackbeard, Blackbeard is not really on the ship or even captaining it. The men rise up and Jack frees the missionary, a young man named Phillip, from the mast. The commotion awakens Blackbeard (Ian McShane) who uses his sword to bring his ship to life, using the ropes on the sails to capture the mutineers. He makes an example out of a young man by throwing him off the ship in a lifeboat and using the ship’s flamethrower to ignite the little boat, a warning to the crew that anyone who stands against him will be killed.


Back in England, Gibbs is brought before Barbossa to be hung. Barbossa tells Gibbs to give him the map he stole from Jack. Gibbs takes out the map and throws it into a nearby fire pit, telling Barbossa that the only way Barbossa will find the Fountain of Youth is if Barbossa agrees to keep Gibbs alive and use him as the ship’s navigator. Barbossa begrudgingly agrees and welcomes Gibbs back into the Royal Navy.

On Blackbeard’s ship, Jack tries to convince him that Angelika is lying about being Blackbeard’s daughter but Blackbeard confirms that she is actually his child. Blackbeard tells Jack about a prophecy which foretold Blackbeard’s death at the hands of a one legged man. Jack is tortured for a bit using a voodoo doll but Blackbeard relents when Angelika intercedes on Jack’s behalf. She tells him in private that the ritual to use the Fountain involves a mermaid’s tear and two silver chalices from the ship of Ponce de Leon, which contain the key to finding the Fountain. She explains that the Fountain takes life from one drinker and gives it to the one who drinks from the cup with the mermaid tear. Angelika takes him into Blackbeard’s treasure room and shows Jack that Blackbeard captures enemy ships and places them in magic bottles. She shows him what became of his beloved ship, the Black Pearl.

The Queen Anne’s Revenge pulls into White Foam Cove and the crew is put into lifeboats to begin hunting for mermaids. Blackbeard lands on shore with Jack and Angelika and they ignite a lighthouse in order to attract the mermaids with the light. Phillip is out at sea on the lifeboat when the mermaids start to arrive and enchant the sailors. A mermaid drags one of the sailors under and soon all of the mermaids are attacking the boats. Blackbeard uses the Queen Anne’s Revenge to begin driving the mermaids to shore and Phillip uses the distraction to dive into the water and desperately begin swimming to shore.

Meanwhile, the mermaids have begun using their hair to drag people on shore in to the water to kill them. Angelika is grabbed by the leg but Jack jumps over her and cuts the hair with his sword. Realizing that Blackbeard’s plan will get them all killed, he races to the lighthouse and damages the support beams enough to cause it to implode. He dives into the water just as debris falls all around him. Phillip reaches the shore around this time and is about to be crushed by falling debris when he is knocked aside by a mermaid. The mermaid’s tail gets crushed, pinning her to the ground. Phillip releases it, but when she tries to escape he stabs her in the fin in time for Blackbeard to come and capture her.

The mermaid is placed in a glass coffin and the men journey into the heart of the island looking for the lost ship of Ponce de Leon. Phillip sees that the mermaid is suffocating because she can’t get any air in the sealed coffin. He resists Blackbeard’s orders and pries the coffin open with his sword, wedging his bible in enough to keep the coffin from closing. His concern for her touches the young mermaid, who is unsure what to make of Phillip.

The group reaches a giant gap in the land which means that someone has to go on ahead without the others and find the ship. Blackbeard tells Jack that if Jack doesn’t go, Blackbeard will kill Angelika. Jack laughs at the idea but Blackbeard tells his men to bring 6 pistols, two of which have bullets. Jack takes one and fires it at Angelika but its empty. Blackbeard makes Jack choose again and Jack takes one, sure that it isn’t loaded and fires it into the sky, blowing off a branch off a tree. Jack is mortified and Angelika is slightly disturbed but Jack agrees to go on alone. He asks Blackbeard’s Voodoo servant if he will survive the jump. The Voodoo Priest tosses and effigy of Jack off the cliff and says “Now you will survive.” Jack dives in and goes it alone.

Barbossa and his men arrive at the shore in lifeboats and see the remnants of the mermaids who were killed on shore. Their main ship is soon overrun by mermaids and Barbossa tells the remaining men that they are going on, ignoring the screams of the men being ripped apart on the ship.


Phillip and Blackbeard’s men get into an argument and Blackbeard’s men drop the mermaid’s coffin. They are surprised to see that upon touching land, the mermaid’s tail dissolves and she is left with normal legs. Phillip takes off his shirt and covers her with it, then carries her. He names her Syrena so that the group will have a name for her. Blackbeard takes Syrena to a special pool, where mermaids are tortured and left for dead. He demands that she cry but she does not shed a tear. Realizing that Syrena probably has feelings for Phillip, Blackbeard has his men stab him in front of her and toss his body in the woods. Phillip comes to hours later and removes a knock out dart from his neck, groggily stumbling back to the pit. He tries to free Syrena, who begins crying tears of joy, but Blackbeard appears and knocks Phillip out, bottling the tear. He has his men drag Phillip away and leaves Syrena to die.

Jack arrives at the ship of Ponce de Leon, which is delicately balanced on the point of a mountain. The slightest shift in weight will send the ship hurtling to the bottom of a crevice and kill whoever is inside. Jack tries to find the silver cups but is surprised by Barbossa, who was lying in wait. Barbossa explains that the Black Pearl came alive because of Blackbeard’s sword and that he was forced to cut his own leg off to escape the ship. Jack is surprised but agrees to help Barbossa kill Blackbeard. They find the chalice box but see that it is empty – The Spaniards have beaten them to it. Using the map of Ponce de Leon, they deduce the only area for the Spaniards to make camp and head out.

The duo steals the cups and Jack realizes that Barbossa’s sword has a distinct smell to it. Barbossa calmly explains that he has been killing poisonous frogs with his sword and plans to use the toxin to kill Blackbeard. They fail to retrieve the cup and are instead captured and tied to posts. Jack escapes and leads the Spaniards on a chase while Gibbs and Barbossa’s men rescue Barbossa and steal the cups. Jack tells Barbossa how to follow them to the Fountain and they part ways, Gibbs joining Jack for the final leg of the journey.

Jack and Gibbs find Blackbeard’s group and they look for the location of the Fountain: The cave where water falls up. Jack finds it and leads the men through, knocking the cups together. Blackbeard grows impatient and threatens to shoot Jack but Jack realizes that the inscription on the cup is the password to the pool. He says the magic words and a pool forms on the ceiling of the cavern. Jack jumps up and climbs through and looks around the Fountain room. Blackbeard and his men follow but are soon ambushed by Barbossa’s men and a full scale battle erupts. Phillip uses the distraction to cut his bonds and escape, but gets stabbed in the stomach on his way out of the Fountain.

Jack and Angelika fight over the chalices and tear because Jack doesn’t want her to give it to Blackbeard. Meanwhile, Blackbeard gets the upper hand on Barbossa and is about to kill him when the Spaniards arrive and begin destroying the Fountain, not wanting a pagan monument standing the way of God. They throw the chalices into the pool and Barbossa takes the opportunity to stab Blackbeard in the back with the poisoned sword. Angelika freaks out and pulls the blade out, cutting her hand in the process. Barbossa takes Blackbeard’s sword as payment for his leg and tells Blackbeard’s men that they are now his.

Phillip arrives at the pit where Syrena has been chained and he begs God to save her life, even at the cost of his own. He cuts her bonds and she immediately swims away, heading straight for the pool room.

Jack realizes that Angelika only has moments to live. He desperately seeks the chalices in the water but they are out of reach. Syrena arrives carrying the chalices and tells him not to waste her tear before she leaves. Jack grabs the chalices and puts water from the Fountain into them and places the tear in one of the cups. He goes to Blackbeard and tells him that he needs to save Angelika’s life as a good father would. Blackbeard takes the wrong cup, determined to survive and drinks. Angelika is both disappointed and happy but Jack interrupts Blackbeard’s celebration by pointing out that he gave Blackbeard the wrong cup. The pool surrounds Blackbeard and rips him apart, transferring his life to Angelika’s.


Phillip lies dying by the pool and Syrena returns to him. She tells him that she can save him but Phillip only wants her forgiveness. They kiss and Syrena drags Phillip to the bottom of the sea.

Angelika is pissed with Jack for killing her father but Jack is unrepentant. He ties her up and brings her to the same island he was marooned on years before and he tosses her a pistol with a single shot. She fires it at him and misses as Jack prepares to leave her. He suggests that he loves her before rowing away.

Barbossa takes the Queen Anne’s Revenge and sails off with his new crew. Gibbs, on the shore of the island, awaits Jack’s return. The two meet and Gibbs hands Jack a big: Gibbs went to the Queen Anne’s Revenge stole Blackbeard’s collection of ships trapped in bottles: Jack is now free to have the Black Pearl and a fleet of pirate ships at his disposal.

AFTER CREDITS:
Angleika is seen sitting on the island near shore. Suddenly she looks up seeing something in the water. As she walks down to the water we see Jack's voo-doo doll wash up on shore, Angelika picks up the doll and smiles

The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)

Louis Roulet (Ryan Phillipe) did beat up hooker Reggie Campo (Margarita Levieva) and did murder the other prostitute. Mick Haller (Matthew McConaughey) gets Gloria (Katherine Moennig) to convince Corliss (Shea Whigham) to lie on the witness stand in order to discredit the prosecution in Reggie's attempted murder case. The prosecuting attorney (Josh Lucas) is forced to drop the charges against Roulet, much to the delight of his mother Mary Windsor (Frances Fisher).
During the cross-examination of Reggie, Mick gets her to admit that Roulet knew the murdered prostitute. Before being mysteriously shot to death, Haller's friend Frank Levin (William H. Macy) discovered that Roulet had received a parking ticket outside the murdered prostitute's apartment on the night of the murder. Mick had gotten Jesus Martinez (Michael Pena) to plead guilty to that murder to avoid the death penalty, but Mick now realizes that Jesus is innocent. Based on this evidence and testimony, Roulet is arrested for that murder.
Levin was shot with Mick's gun, which Roulet stole from Mick's house. After Roulet is released on bond, he confronts Mick and threatens to murder Mick and his family. However, the motorcycle gang that Jesus belongs to arrives on the scene and beats Roulet to a pulp.
Mick returns home (he is divorced from his wife and lives alone) where Mary is waiting for him. She has Mick's gun and before shooting Mick, she admits to killing Frank. Mick draws a gun his chauffeur acquired for him and kills Mary.
Jesus is released and we see Mick recovering from his gunshot wound in the back seat of his Lincoln Continental doing business as usual with the motorcycle gang.

Limitless (2011)

Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is a failing writer and his girlfriend, Lindy (Abbie Cornish) is about to leave him.  Eddie runs into his ex-wife's brother, Vernon (Johnny Whitworth) who gives him a pill with the street name of NZT.  It allows the user to unlock their brain to their full potential.  Vernon gets killed while Eddie is visiting to tryand get more of the drug.  While Eddie is waiting for the cops to show up he finds Vernon's stash of pills and money.
Eddie has an idea to use the drug to get himself a nest egg.  He connects with a Russian mobster, Gennady (Andrew Howard) to get a large amount of cash he can invest in the stock market to make money.  Eddie starts to get a name for himself in the financial market business.  He also gets back together with Lindy.
Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro), the head of the company Eddie is working out of, starts to use Eddie's knowledge for his own upcoming business merger.  The merger falls through as the other company head was on NZT but ran out and slipped into a coma.  Eddie finds out from Vernon's black book that other users have died or became hospitalized.  Eddie learns from his ex-wife Melissa (Anna Friel) that you can't just stop otherwise you die.  Eddie learns through trial and error that you have to remember to eat and sleep otherwise you get blackouts and dizzy spells.
The beginning of the movie shows Eddie on the ledge of his fortress suite while Gennady, who is now on injected NZT, is breaking in.  This is also close to the end of the story.  Eddie decides to fight and gets the better of the Russians along with a small hit of NZT (by drinking Gennady's blood) to keep him going.
The end starts 12 months later when Eddie is running for Mayor or Senator of New York.  Carl is now part of the pharmaceutical company that created NZT.  He is offering Eddie a deal to keep him supplied in exchange for favours down the road.  Eddie calls Carl's bluff and states that he was able to tweak the drug and is no longer using but his brain is still high functioning.  Carl leaves with a warning that he has made an enemy.  Eddie goes to lunch and meets up with Lindy.
It's assumed life continues with a high functioning Eddie who may run for President.

Hanna (2011)

Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is the last surviving child of a genetic super soldier project sanctioned then terminated by Marissa (Cate Blanchett), a high ranking CIA agent. Erik Heller (Eric Bana) was the CIA operative that recruited Hanna's mother Johanna then attempted to protect them both when Marissa killed all the test subjects. However, Marissa caught up to them and murdered Johanna. Erik is not her biological father, but took Hanna in regardless as his own.
Hanna learns the truth about her past, just as Issacs (Tom Hollander) finds them both. Erik tells Hanna to run and proves his devotion and love for Hanna by sacrificing himself in order to kill Issacs; Erik is gunned down by Marissa soon after.
Marissa confronts Hanna with an pretense of friendliness but Hanna says she's done being a killer. Marissa tries to kill her, but Hanna wounds her with an arrow in the process. They fight some more, culminating with Hanna executing Marissa.