August 2009 Archives

Adorable Andrew reviews two movies in one video!

The first film he discusses is G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. The movie was released in 2009 and starred Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, and Marlon Wayans.

The second film he reviews is Dragonball Evolution. The movie was also released in 2009 and starred Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, and Yun-Fat Chow.

A brief rundown of things discussed by Adorable Andrew (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra):

  • Andrew argues that Duke and Anna's romance is awkward, forced, and fabricated.
  • Andrew suggests that Ripcord, the supposed comedic relief of the film, was not funny.
  • Andrew criticizes the movie for having too much action, and for the useless dialogue.
  • Andrew criticizes the initial encounter between young Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow because Storm Shadow is clearly not speaking Japanese when they're supposed to be in Tokyo.
  • Andrew summarizes that the movie does redeem itself, at least somewhat, by the end.

A brief rundown of things discussed by Adorable Andrew (Dragonball Evolution):

  • Andrew acknowledges that the movie doesn't bare much resemblance to the original story as told by Akira Toriyama. Nevertheless, he argues that the movie took influence from many of the good parts.
  • Andrew argues that although they weren't able to feature many of the characters from the main storyline, they still had a good assortment.
  • Andrew suggests that the first 40 - 50 minutes of the film were quite good, but the rest of the film felt truncated.
  • Andrew admits that he may have had low expectations for this movie which is why he still enjoyed it.

For Andrew's follow-up to this review of Dragonball Evolution, click here. He goes into a little more detail why he actually enjoyed this movie in contrast to the vocal majority.



After much toil, Adorable Andrew reaches Megalopolis status on Hard Mode.

A brief rundown of things discussed by Adorable Andrew:

  • Krocketneo challenges Andrew to build a Megalopolis in hard mode.
  • Andrew discusses the challenges involved in building a city in hard mode, such as monetary constraints and frequency of disasters.
  • Andrew discusses strategy for building a Megalopolis in hard mode.
  • Andrew admits that his strategy didn't pan out the first time through, so he had to take another run at it.
  • Andrew suggests that "presents" are your best friend when building a city in hard mode, because they boost the land value and bring in special income.
  • Andrew shows us around the city and pulls up the stats to prove his achievement.
  • Andrew continues to build up the city until it reaches population 560,000.


SimCity - Scenarios

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Andrew discusses the scenarios in SimCity.

A brief rundown of things discussed by Adorable Andrew:

  • Andrew summarizes the objectives implicit in the scenarios.
  • Andrew discusses the Bern scenario. The objective of this scenario is to solve the traffic congestion problem.
  • Andrew discusses the San Francisco scenario. The city is plagued by earthquakes, and the player must restore the city after the impending disaster(s).
  • Andrew discusses the Detroit scenario. The crime rate is soaring in this city, and the player must correct this problem using every tactic possible.
  • Andrew discusses the Boston scenario. The nuclear meltdown in this city makes a portion of the map unusable.
  • Andrew discusses the Rio de Janeiro scenario. Flooding is a recurring problem in this city unless you bulldoze the shoreline.
  • Andrew discusses the bonus scenarios: Las Vegas and the Freedom map.


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