This Means War-Review

This means war is a 2012 romantic comedy spy film directed by McG. The film stars Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, and Tom Hardy who are stuck in a rather unusual love triangle. In which two CIA agents who are best friends find out that they are dating the same woman. I expected this film to be very funny and have me in stitches in parts, whilst also including some great scenes of romance. It beat my expectations completely.

 The plot is that CIA agents and best friends FDR Foster (Chris Pine) and Tuck Hansen (Tom Hardy) are sent to Hong Kong to prevent criminal Karl Heinrich (Til Schweiger) from getting his hands on a weapon of mass destruction. But the mission goes wrong, resulting in the death of Heinrich's brother, Jonas, so Heinrich swears vengeance (revenge) on them. When returning to America, their boss, Collins (Angela Bassett), assigns them to desk duty for their protection, so they don’t die. Then on a night out they both meet the Lauren (Reese Witherspoon) and fall madly in love with her. Once they find out they both like her they get people to help them mess with each others dates, so they can get the girl. They also spy on her to see what she likes and dislikes and even look through her personal flies to gain valuable information. Who will win womanizer FDR or charmer Tuck? The plot is very believable, makes sense and is easy enough to follow it.

Actor Chris Pine plays FDR the womanizer, who’s cover is a cruise ship captain. FDR’s character is very cocky; obsessed with him self and thinks he’s better than everyone. Whereas Tuck, played by Tom Hardy is a divorced single farther who also falls in love with Laure; Tuck’s character is very charming, romantic and puts others before him self. Lauren Scott played by Reese Witherspoon is a product testing executive and the love of FDR and Tuck; her character is beautiful, thoughtful and sneaky (going out with two people at the same time). I think all the actors were well suited to their parts.

There were no special effects but don’t let that put you off the film. I love the camera work because there are not any dark scenes were you can not make out what is happening. The camera is used is basic ways nothing special, but it is a brilliant, must see film.

I really enjoyed the film and found it side-splitting (hilarious) because of all the things the spy’s did to ruin each others dates. Its good points were that in the end both agents got a girl and they defeated the criminal. But I didn’t agree with who got the girl (Lauren), that’s my only bad point, so apart from that I think the film was phenomenal. I especially loved the scene where Tuck and Lauren where on a date, the room was light with lots of candles. They were about to kiss when all of a sudden, it started lashing down with water, so all the candles went off and Lauren and Tuck got drenched.

I would recommend this film to lovers of comedy and romance because it had me laughing through out the film and there were some wonderful loves scenes that showed magical moments between certain characters. This film reminds me slightly of the “Men in Black” because there are spies in it, but other than that I would class this film as one of a kind. Definitely one to watch.

5 STARS!!!

Spellings

Furnace- A enclosed structure used to heat materials to high temperature.
You melt metal is a furnace.

Carriage- A conveyor used to transport goods.
A horse carry's a carriage.

Aeroplane- A mechanical structure that is used to transport people high in the air to different locations.
I'm going on an aeroplane to France.

Aquarium- A container used to keep aquatic animals or plants.
I go to see the fish at the aquarium.

Secretary- A job where the employee is  to assist their manager by sorting files and making importants.

Sufficent- Enough to satisfy one's needs.
The meal was sufficent to satisfy my hunger.

Aerial- A rod, wire that transmitt signals or  recived as part of  radio or television transmition.
My TV has an aerial.

Committee- A group formed to discuus or perform a specific subjet.
I have a football committee meeting to go to.

Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre

William Shakespeare was an English poet and play writer. William was son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford upon Avon. At the age of 18, he married  26 year old Anne Hathaway, with who he had three children: Susanna, and twins  son Hamnet and  daughter Judith. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried.  He began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a play company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. Shakespeare divided his time between London and Stratford during his career. In 1596, the year before he bought New Place as his family home in Stratford, Shakespeare was living in the parish of St. Helen's. He moved across the river to Southwark by 1599, the year his company built the Globe Theatre there.

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's play company, the Lord Chamberlain's. The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from another theatre knocked down. It was roughly completed by the summer of 1599. On 29 June 1613 the Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance of Henry VIII. A theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, setting the wood and thatch on fire. It was rebuilt the next year. Like all the other theatres in London, the Globe was closed down by the Puritans in 1642. It was knocked down in 1644.

My play dough sulpture

I made a serpent from my play dough. I did this because in  scene 1 act 5 the ghost (Hamlet's farther) tells Hamlet about how a serpent stung him and now wears his crown. That means that he was killed by his brother  (Hamlet's uncle), and that he was poisoned by ear poison.  

Sumarry of Hamlet - Act 1 Scene 1

Barnardo takes over Fransico's shift, but Franciso thought he was the ghost. Banardo finds Horatio and Marcellus. Fransico says goodbye and leaves. But Horatio doesn't believe that they have seen a ghost and said they were just imaging it. The clock strikes one and the ghost appears. Banardo says it looks like the dead king and tells Horatio to try speaking to the ghost. He asks the ghost what he is, why is walks around so late and why he is wearing the amour that the king wore when he died in battle. Horatio goes pale and starts trembling, he finally believe in the ghost from seeing it with his own eyes. They discuss the way how the ghost frowned the same way as the king did when he attacked the Poles, and weather it could be the dead kings ghost. They start talking about how it has appeared the same time for the past two nights and that this might be a sign that the countries in danger. Marcellus asks why there has been such a strict schedule lately. Horatio says he thinks it's because the dead king killed the king of Norway and his son seeks to battle to reclaim the land his farther lost, so that's why were posted tonight. Banardo agrees and thinks that's what explains the dead king wondering round the castle. The ghost comes back. The ghost is about to speak but is interrupted the rooster. This time Marcellus strikes it with his spear. So the ghost disappears again. They discuss whether it was because they used violence. Marcellus says he disappeared because the rooster crows, so that no ghost dares go wandering. They decide to tell Prince Hamlet.

Shakespearean Pharses Used Today

• "Alive and well"
• "Vanished into thin air"
• "In a pickle"
• "Seen better days"
• "For goodness sake"
• "Tut, tut"
• "O lord"

To be or not to be

 

“We’re getting a divorce,” screamed Jade’s dad. “Fine,” yelled her mum. Jade’s life just went from bad to worse, her parents were getting a divorce and she had become the most unpopular girl in school. It all started yesterday…

 

“Jade come and eat lunch with us” pleaded Britney and Avery. “Sorry I cant I’m eating with my boyfriend Brandon, maybe tomorrow”. Jade was the most popular girl in school, she was smart and beautiful. Everybody worshipped her.  But Jade had a secret passion chess but she knew she couldn’t pursue she passion and still be popular. Well she could try. That lunch she secretly snuck into chess club in a disguise. She loved it, she felt like her self for once. But as she came out and pulled her disguise off, there was Brandon, Britney and Avery. “Eew, you play chess, we’re telling everyone and you’ll be the most unpopular person in school”.
“We’re over Jade” said Brandon disgustedly. “Why did I make the brutal mistake of joining chess club,” sobbed Jade…

 

Jade was in her lilac and pink room with flowery wall paper listening to the sound of her parents yell and scream. She cried for hours on end, she even cried her self to sleep. “BEEP BEEP”. It was Monday morning, so Jade had to go to school today. She hated school now because she so unpopular that she had to eat lunch in the girls toilets. She had got thought a full day of school with out crying. But her life wasn’t getting any better. As she was walking home some on the popular girls ran past and pulled Jade’s skirt down in front of all the boys. Including her ex Brandon, all the boys giggled and teased her. Jade ran all the way home with her skirt by her ankles.

 

The  door burst open and in came jade as red as a tomato. Her mum ran to her, gave her a massive hug and said “What’s the matter honey”. "The, the popular girls pulled my sskirt down in front of alll the bboys,” mumbled Jade. “Oh honey its going to be ok,” said her mum “I’ve got someone I need to introduce to you”. A tall man, with night black hair and sparkly blue eyes walks out of the kitchen holding a cup of tea in hand. “WHO IS THIS?”
“This is my new boyfriend Jade, his name is Nathan.”
“When did this happen,” screamed Jade “didn’t you think of telling me”. Jade stormed off up to her room. Nathan followed her. “Can I come in?”
“I guess so!” sighed Jade. “I brought you a gift why don’t you open it?”
“Ok” said Jade “it’s a dog!”
“Yep I thought you’d like it, I can get you anything you want because I own the shopping Centre”.
“WOW, cool”

 

Word got out in school about Jade’s mum dating Nathan. Everyone was suspiciously nice to Jade, even after what happened to Jade. Britney and Avery approached Jade. “Hi Jade want to go the shopping center this weekend.”
“Sure, but I don’t have any money.”
“Don’t be silly we all know your mum’s boyfriend owns the shopping center, maybe we can have freebies”.
“Oh, yeah I’ll ask!”
“So that’s why every one was being nice to me!” thought Jade “their just using me for my mum’s boyfriend’s money”
To be or not to be that was the question…

 

Should Jade use the fact that her mum’s boyfriend owns the shopping center to become popular again (which goes against everything she believes in), or should she stay uncool and try and make some real friends. It was a difficult decision, so Jade decided to sleep on it. But her mind was to busy trying to figure out what she should do so she didn’t get any sleep. Due to her lack of sleep Jade stayed off school that day and she thought, and though. She finally came to a decision.

 

The next day Jade marched confidently into school. She marched straight up Britney and Avery and said “Thanks for your offer the other day, but I’m not going because I don’t want to take advantage of my mum’s boyfriend, and I don’t want to be someone who you use and pretend to be your friend!”
“Fine but what are you going to do, you won’t be popular and you never will be!”
“I’m going to find some real friends who aspirate me for who I am, and who like some of the same things at me!”