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Helloooww… I’m back, heeehee… still talking about 2008 best animated movies. Today I come up with the last 5, and the criteria’s still the same. Here is the continued list …

6. Resident Evil : Degeneration
This is the game that converted to movie . The story begins at a humble Midwest airport where Claire Redfield, now tied to a humanitarian organization that caters to the survivors of terror motivated viral outbreaks, picks up a young girl from India whose family was killed in a recent zombie attack. But where Claire goes trouble follows, and sooner than you can say “government conspiracy” a zombie filled plane bursts through the nearest picture window. Claire tried to fight the undead, but of course, she can’t do that alone. When Claire’s about to lose the battle, a familiar character, Leon S Kennedy (Star of Resident Evil 4), together, they get rid of the zombies and quarantine the airport. Once the airport is quarantined, Leon with his fellow agent, Angela Miller and other S.R.T. agents, are dropped into the airport to rescue any survivors. Guns blaze, and gore and plenty of flesheating action ensues. The story then moves to WilPharma, where we’re treated to two more huge setpieces, including the obligatory showdown with the big baddie. But the main problem that the movie, directed by Makoto Kamiya and scripted by Shotaro Suga, suffers from is that the story often degenerates between the action scenes. Claire’s character gets pushed to the sidelines in favor of Angela’s lengthily unfolded backstory, and a budding romance between her and Leon. There are also plenty of expositional scenes involving Curtis Miller, Angela’s brother, who has been committing terrorist activities in an effort to expose WilPharma.

7. The Simpsons Movie
Well, actually, this is the end of 2007’s movie, but I included this in 2008 movie, heehee :p, because the release date was so near 2008 and this movie entered my country on around February 2008. The movie is about The city of Springfield that orders a clean up of the polluted Lake Springfield and bans waste dumps there. Thanks to Lisa Simpson who convinces the locals to clean up the polluted Lake Springfield after the sinking of the stage of the Green Day in a concert of rock and roll, Lake Springfield is cleaned up from the pollution that once fouled it. In the mean time, Homer adopts a pig who’s run away from Krusty Burger after Krusty tried to have him slaughtered, naming the pig “Spider Pig”, after two days, Spider Pig fills up a silo with its excrement and Homer dumps the silo in the lake, polluting it, and even worst… the animal around the lake is mutating and become rough. The angry population forces the Simpsons to move to Alaska. Meanwhile the stupid president Arnold Schwarzenegger is induced by his advisor from EPA to put a dome over Springfield to hold the population and destroy the city. When Marge sees the new in the television, she tells Homer that they must return to Springfield to save their town and friends.

8. Kungfu Panda : The Secret of Furious Five
This story happens after Po defeated Tai Lung and Po’s status as the Dragon Warrior has proven to all. As Master Shifu become Master Oogway’s replacement and he’s now getting older, he has a new challenge for Po : teaching Introduction to Kung Fu class to a bunch of a rambunctious bunny children!. After getting the class to come to order, Po begin to teach them that fighting is only part of kung fu, while its true meaning is “Excellence of Self.” To explain this philosophy, Po tells stories of each of his comrades, The Furious Five, and how they faced formative challenges in their youth that helped define them as true masters of kung fu. After they listening to what Po said, the bunny children finally begin to understand, that the important thing in kung fu is not only fight, but wisdom is also necessary. The weak point of this movie is only 1, the duration is short!, only about 25-30 mins! (…

9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Heehee, also 2007’s movie, but anyway, let’s continue… :p. After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family, Leonardo has gone to Central America, on the orders of the martial arts master and father figure Master Splinter, for training. Donatello and Michelangelo have started small businesses in Leonardo’s absence. Struggling to keep them together, their sensei, Master Splinter, becomes worried when strange things brewing in New York City. Tech-industrialist tycoon Max Winters revives four ancient stone warriors and enlists the help of the foot clan to help capture ancient monsters. The Ninja Turtles are needed more than ever and must unite again to save it. It’s now up to Leonardo and Master Splinter to restore unity and ninja discipline to the Turtles.

10. Space Chimps
Well, I’m not sure about the story since I’m not very keen on it, but this movie is totally funny, and I like monkeys :p, so I put it in number 10. Ham III, the grandson of the first chimp astronaut, is blasted off into space by an opportunity-seeking senator. Soon, the fun-loving chimp has to get serious about the mission at hand: Rid a far-away planet of their nefarious leader. Fortunately for Ham III, two of his simian peers are along for the ride. One chimp has “The Right Stuff,” and the other, a good natured goofball, has “The Wrong Stuff.” The simian slacker becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates, the fearless Lt. Luna and their uptight commander, Titan, risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from the evil dictator Zartog.

OK, this is it, this conclude the best 2008 animated movies by Shin-kun… . And MERRY CHRISTMAS!…

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