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Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe

Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe is a direct sequel to the 2011 film Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension. This flick runs for an hour and a half and satisfies all of your nostalgia needs from your childhood. The film starts out with Candace once again trying to bust Phineas and Ferb for building one of their convoluted inventions. Candace's plan backfires when she gets abducted by an alien race from the planet Feebla-Oot .  After finding out that Candace and Vanessa have been captured, Phineas, Ferb, and the gang quickly team up with Doctor Doofenshmirtz to rescue them. Throughout the film, there are references to older episodes via billboards in the city, flashbacks, and a nice collage at the end of the movie. Unfortunately, there are a few things missing from the film that were in the TV show, such as the amazing musical sequences which made Phineas and Ferb such a unique show for its time. On the other hand, the animation quality has

The King of Staten Island

  The King of Staten Island is a near autobiography of the life of Pete Davidson.  You may know him from Saturday Night Live, if you have not liked the skits he has been in before you may have a change of heart towards his type of acting in this film. The best way to describe this film is a combination of comedy and drama, a little less on the comedy side though.  Judd Apatow directs and produces this film, as well as The 40-Year-Old Virgin , Knocked Up  and  This Is 40 .  The film is rated R so I would not recommend watching this with your children, the film does contain the use of drugs and sexual activity as well as cursing. The movie starts off extremely slow but quickly ramps up speed after the first 30 minutes. This flick is part fiction and part reality as Pete Davidson's father was a firefighter who died in the line of duty on 9/11, unlike Pete's character's father in the movie who just dies in the line of duty.  Though The King of Staten Island is nearly 2 hours an