iZombie cast and crew at Comic Con (Photo by Richard Chavez / Showbiz Junkies)
Are we over the whole zombie thing or is there room for another zombie series on TV? iZombie co-creator and executive producer Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars) and The CW believe audiences are so into zombies that they are eager for more and will check out the new series iZombie. And iZombie has such a quirky take on the walking dead that it’s not exactly aiming for the same audience as other zombie projects.
iZombie is based on characters created by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred, however, Thomas was quick to point out during our interview at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con that the series will diverge from the Vertigo comic.
The Plot: “Rose McIver stars as Olivia “Liv” Moore, a 25-year-old medical resident on the fast track to a perfect life … until she’s turned into a zombie. Liv transfers her residency to the coroner’s office for access to the brains she must reluctantly eat, but with each brain she consumes, she inherits the corpse’s memories. With her medical examiner boss and a police detective, she now solves homicides to quiet the voices in her head.”
Check out what Thomas had to say about the series and about what audiences can expect when they tune in to check out iZombie:
Harry Treadaway (Control, Fish Tank) stars as Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Showtime’s popular series Penny Dreadful created by John Logan and set to return for a second season next year. The Showtime series helped kick off the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con with a panel and party attended by cast members and creator Logan. The series features some of the most iconic figures in literary horror history and audiences tuned in in huge numbers to season one of this supernatural thriller set in Victorian London and featuring Treadaway, Josh Hartnett, and Reeve Carney, all of whom made their way to San Diego to talk about their work on the show.
Catching up with Treadaway on the red carpet at Penny Dreadful‘s party, I asked him whether he views Victor Frankenstein as one of the heroic or villainous characters in the series.
“I mean, it’s interesting. I think when I look at him as a character, if you look at him objectively it’s very, very different than if you look at him subjectively from the inside,” explained Treadaway. “So, when I look at him removed it’s a barbaric mental state of affairs. But from the inside it’s quite clear and kind of he’s sound with his goal. So, I can look at it two ways.”
They introduced the Bride of Frankenstein story fairly early on in season one, so how will that progress and what’s in store for season two for Victor? “I haven’t read the second season so for me it’s going to be a wonderful surprise. I’m really interested to read it. We’re going to get them in the next week and then start filming in mid-September. So to me I’m blind as you are right now,” replied Treadaway.
As far as delving into the creature research, Treadaway revealed he didn’t watch any of the Universal creature features. “I only read the novel. That was like the sort of pure research I did for it, in terms of Frankenstein as a story. But really there was more work, or as much work, in terms of the medical background of this man and where he’d been to school and what he’d been doing with his time before we met him. So, to look into the Victorian era and the medical sort of what was going on at the time with science and the breakthroughs that were happening then, that was fascinating. That kind of framed it in a way that was useful to sort of start the journey, really,” said Treadaway.
I also had the opportunity to briefly ask John Logan a few questions about Penny Dreadful as he was heading into the party:
Katharine McPhee went from American Idol to starring in the music-driven series Smash, but with CBS’s Scorpion she’s tackling a role different from anything she’s done before. Elyes Gabel plays genius Walter O’Brien, and McPhee co-stars as the mother of a gifted son who is drawn in by O’Brien’s Scorpion team (part of Homeland Security). The team, comprised of ‘brilliant misfits,’ works to stop high-tech threats.
The TV series is based on the work of the real Walter O’Brien and his team, and O’Brien is hoping to raise awareness of the unit and find recruits who are intellectually capable of assisting with his work in shutting down threats before any damage is done.
Paired up for interviews at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con, Gabel and McPhee talked about being a part of a series that is based in large part on true events and the weight that adds in making sure they get it right while entertaining viewers.
Scorpion debuts on CBS on September 22, 2014 and will air on Monday nights at 9pm ET/PT.
“If your food is anything like your music, I suggest you turn it down,” says Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren) to Hassan (Manish Dayal) and his Papa (Om Puri) who’ve just opened an Indian restaurant right across the road from her celebrated French restaurant in the dramatic film The Hundred-Foot Journey.
Hassan Kadam is a great cook in India and loves cooking for his family’s restaurant. But after a political election goes bad and his family’s livelihood is burned to the ground by an angry mob, the Kadam family flees India in search of somewhere to start anew. They settle for the small, quaint village Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the south of France. It seems the perfect place to open their new Indian restaurant, the Maison Mumbai, except for the fact that the property is located a hundred feet from the most popular classic French restaurant, Le Saule Pleureur.
Nonetheless, convinced this is the perfect new beginning for his family, Papa Kadam buys the property and he and his family begin building and redecorating for the grand opening.
When Mallory realizes she has new competition, she sets out to make business and life for the Kadams extremely difficult, which leads to an all-out war between her and Papa Kadam. This makes life even more difficult for Hassan who has fallen hard for one of Madame’s chef’s, Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), who was the very first person in the village to both help and befriend the Kadam family when they arrived in town.
Determined to create peace between Madame Mallory and his Papa, Hassan uses his culinary gifts and creative genius to try to win over Mallory and show her that he too has a true passion for creating exquisite cuisine.
Lush and sweet, The Hundred-Foot Journey is a charming, sentimental, and all-too-obviously manipulative film with solid performances and a sadly predictable script.
Helen Mirren gives another flawless performance as Madame Mallory, a seemingly cold, calculating, and snobbish woman who strives for absolute perfection in her kitchen and is determined to rid the village of the Kadam family but who starts to have a change of heart and mind when her feud with the family leads to unforeseen consequences. The only problem is there isn’t anything new for Mirren here. She delivered a very similar but much stronger performance in the film The Queen.
Om Puri gives the second-best performance in the film as Papa Kadam, the tough but loving head of the family who has complete and absolute faith and belief in Hassan’s ability to be the greatest Indian cook of all time. His scenes opposite Mirren are the best in the film. Manish Dayal gives a rather bland and unimpressive performance as Hassan, the ‘good son’ who wants to be there for his family and help make his father’s new restaurant a success but has even deeper dreams of branching out and becoming a world-renowned chef. The scenes with Dayal and Marguerite, the young French beauty who he’s head–over–heels, lack any real sense of feeling or emotion.
The look and design of the film are lovely, capturing the beauty and quaintness of the French village and its inhabitants.
Perhaps the biggest disappointment with the film is the painfully predictable script which is guaranteed to have the audience knowing and correctly guessing – with little effort – the outcome of ALL the plots and subplots. This leaves no surprises or twists and makes it impossible for the audience to connect or really care about the characters on the screen.
Overall, The Hundred-Foot Journey is a pleasant but insipid film that’s sure to have the audience craving a movie with more heart, substance, and surprises as they exit the theater.
GRADE: C
The Hundred-Foot Journey opens in theaters on August 8, 2014 and is rated PG for thematic elements, some violence, language and brief sensuality.
Spoiler Alert: I use the CAPS LOCK a few times in this review. You’ve been warned.
If you were thinking about heading Into the Storm because it looked like another fun disaster movie, I beg and plead of you not to head Into the Theater. Simply put this is one of the very worst films of 2014 … even giving it the benefit of the doubt because it’s built as a dumb disaster movie. And this is coming from someone who loves the Sharknado films. At least with those the filmmakers understand they’re making horsesh#t and play into it. Here, “director” Steven Quale (sure he did Final Destination #5!) and “writer” John Swetnam (who likely put all his “thought” into the script for the upcoming Step Up All In) have crafted what is perhaps the worst combination of found footage film with wannabe Roland Emmerich disaster epic.
The movie begins with the hokey “kid talking to the camera because he’s making a time capsule” gimmick and establishes the idea that he and his brother will be filming things so we can get those awful first-person shaky-cam shots that I thought most filmmakers understood was a fad that died out a few years ago. Seriously, unless your driver’s license reads “Paul Greengrass”, or you’re a filmmaker who understands how to utilize a concept to enhance the story rather than simply abuse it because you think you know what you’re doing, GIVE IT A REST.
And don’t worry, the lazy clichés don’t stop there. Coinciding with the small Oklahoma town’s high school graduation ceremony that will obviously be devastated by the titular storm there’s a group of storm chasers who are attempting to make a documentary. Documentary you say? That sounds like a great way to ADD MORE CHARACTERS WITH CAMERAS WE HAVE TO WATCH CRAPPY FOOTAGE FROM! Hooray…
Along the way we’re given awful attempts at teen romance, wooden father/son issues, the old single mother working far away from her young daughter setup, and a whole host of other bland attempts at character development that all fall flatter than the buildings the giant tornado will eventually ravage.
But Ian, you keep saying there will be a storm, which is all that people are interested in seeing anyway? Yeah … that’s true … there’s a big tornado (an EF5 if you’re a fan of the Enhanced Fujita scale of rating tornadoes … I’m more of a regular Fujita scale kinda guy) … and even a few smaller but quite destructive ones prior to that … but if you’ve ever trusted me before please take my advice: This movie is TERRIBLE.
But Ian, how terrible could it be because it’s just another dumb disaster movie? Let me put it this way, I brought a friend to the screening who LOVES disaster movies (and I’m a huge fan myself). How much does she love disaster movies though? She really and unironically likes Twister (which I can understand) and 2012 (which I cannot) … that’s how much. What’s the first thing she says to me after the movie’s far too painful and seemingly endless 90 minutes have elapsed? “Wow. That was awful.”
Honestly, even with the hilariously unrealistic final scene of Twister where Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt survive a giant tornado by lashing themselves to some pipes that extend 30 feet into the ground (so you know they’re going to be safe), that movie simply outclasses Into the Storm in every way. Is it too late to say Spoiler Alert? (Yes but that movie came out in 1996 so if you haven’t seen it already, were you ever actually going to get around to it?)
What drives me absolutely off the deep end and cements my feelings about this “film” is that although the end of the movie appears to use some actual footage of communities hit by tornadoes and is set in Oklahoma which is smack dab in the middle of Tornado Alley, the entire production was shot in MICHIGAN. Really? Once New Line picked up the movie you couldn’t throw the state of Oklahoma a financial bone? After all, it’s their citizens who have to endure such awesome and terrifying displays of mother nature every year. But hey, we’re just making a dumb found footage film, right? (Well, they got the dumb part right).
I especially enjoy that the media blitz and interviews about the movie play up the found footage aspect of the whole thing … unless all you’ve seen is the trailer in which they do their damn best to hide that fact because audiences would likely roll their eyes and say “not another shaky-cam nausea fest”. Truth in advertising? I know Hollywood is terrible at this but I’m not looking the other way this time. The marketing campaign, and more importantly the movie itself, is a HUGE middle finger to audiences the people behind the film clearly think are as dumb as the awful stereotypes of Oklahoman good ‘ol boys depicted in the movie as wannabe YouTube stars who end up also trying to capture the storm using their GoPro camera and cell phone. YAY! MORE PEOPLE WITH CAMERAS WE HAVE TO WATCH CRAPPY FOOTAGE FROM!
I think you get the gist of my feelings on this movie by now. Even better, I hope you are taking me seriously here. If there’s a movie you should avoid, it’s this one. Especially as there are actually good summer popcorn options out there to watch in theaters. Go see Guardians of the Galaxy (again). Go see Lucy. Go see … oh hell, I don’t care. Just don’t see Into the Storm! If you do, you’re just encouraging studios to combine low budget and low-IQ filmmaking with inflated CGI budgets. Don’t prove a system that only cares about profits to be right about the willingness of audiences to watch anything if it has loud noises and explosions. Learn from the words of the Williams (Shakespeare first, Faulkner subsequently) about what sound and fury may signify. We already have the SyFy channel. That’s FREE with your cable package. Why pay more for crap that thinks it doesn’t stink?
GRADE: F5
Into the Storm opens in theaters on August 8, 2014 and is rated PG-13 for sequences of intense destruction and peril, and language including some sexual references.
A lot of people are going to blame Michael Bay for what he’s done to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And I can’t blame them. However, let’s not lose sight of the fact that he’s only producing this attack on a once-treasured childhood gem. We can also blame director Jonathan Liebesman. It’s sort of like shooting fish in a barrel considering his last two films were the awful Wrath of the Titans and uninspired Battle Los Angeles, but hey, I love shooting fish in a barrel!
So in this “movie,” sadly titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as opposed to Teenage Mutated Sewer-schooled Turtlesque Creatures, the familiar faces are all back … only they’re horribly disfigured in probably far too costly CGI. I mean, are these turtles? Are they? Yuck. Oh, and I’m just going to assume you know who these characters are and if you’ve seen the first live-action movie, you’ll have a good idea of the plot as it’s largely rehashed here. They reinvented how it was that Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Splinter become their anthropomorphic selves.
Instead of wandering into a pile of discarded toxic waste, here they were once lab animals (though what kind of serious lab has four turtles and 1 rat as the sum total of their test subjects is beyond me) and are injected with the mutagen that will transform them. The Foot Clan are basically the same, only with knock-off masks from the movie 300.
To figure out what the characters would sound like this time around, the casting department went for recognizable names and voices … oh, wait not really. We’ve got Tony Shalhoub voicing Splinter and Johnny Knoxville as Leonardo but the other three turtles get people I’ve never heard of before. And that’s fine, I don’t blame the voice actors, it’s tougher than one might think to bring a character to life that way. However, I don’t know why you bother casting a few people one might recognize and then stop short in the middle. Either simply cast for the best voice or cast names the audience will recognize.
Then there’s April O’Neil. So … umm … Megan Fox? Here’s the weird thing. Like all of those concerned with what was being done to this nostalgic franchise, her casting was one of the most baffling. Putting aside the notion that she and Michael Bay would ever be listed in the same film credits ever again, no one confuses her with a serious actress. Her version of April O’Neil is a woman who wants to be a serious journalist but is stuck doing light, fluffy pieces for the local network because she’s perceived as less than anchor material (to no one’s surprise but her own). While I’m not a fan of this change, casting her makes sense for what they did.
What also makes sense from a cliché script perspective are the characters played by William Fichtner and Will Arnett. Fichtner is no stranger to Michael Bay productions, so his inclusion here is no great surprise, nor is his character’s true intentions. He sleepwalks through the paint-by-number tasks he’s assigned. In lieu of bringing in the character of Casey Jones, Arnett is cast as April’s cameraman/wannabe love interest. He too is able to coast through the proceedings without any challenge from the formulaic and predictable script.
Wait a minute … where’s the rage ranting … where’s the anger you might have been expecting from this review? Honestly, I’m all angered out right now. I think you can tell I’m no fan of what’s been done here and I wish the movie didn’t exist at all. I think the look of the Turtles is stupid and aside from having shells on their back it’s often hard to remember these are supposed to be turtles.
Splinter looks like a dime store comic stereotype of a kung fu master and Shalhoub’s voice made pretty much anything serious he had to say end up sounding more comical than was probably intended. And Shredder is basically a dude in a special armor suit that somehow doesn’t slow down his movement with all that metal. Meh.
All in all, this is a bad, bad movie. However, by sticking to the basic three-act story structure and simply plodding along as CGI enables these “turtles” to do all sorts of things that are well beyond the realm of biology and physics, this reboot does qualify as a movie despite its frequent use of Deus ex mutagen to work their way out of any roadblocks in the plot. The kids in the audience seemed to enjoy it and as sad as it sounds, this is kind of where we’re at when it comes to creating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for this generation. I weep for them because I think it’s crap, but I’m not the only arbiter of taste.
Now again, before you think I’ve been replaced by some robot version of myself, I don’t like this movie. In fact, I hate it. I’m never going to watch it again, and should sequels unfortunately materialize, I’m likely just going to skip them because I can do a lot of better things with my time. However, to some degree, the flood of these recent reboots of nostalgic properties has simply eroded some of my usual ire with their frequency and mediocrity. That, and having watched Into the Storm earlier this week, it’s hard to get that mad about two movies in the span of three days … I just don’t have that kind of energy.
All I can say is please don’t watch this new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. It’s stupid and wrong. There are much better films out in the marketplace right now (*cough* Guardians of the Galaxy) and seeing them a second, third, or fourth time are far better ideas than seeing this once. And don’t take the grade I’m giving this film as acceptance; I’m simply acknowledging that this technically contains all the necessary elements of a movie. I think you can tell that I certainly don’t condone or like Michael Bay’s latest twisting of established material.
GRADE: C-
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles opens in theaters on August 8, 2014 and is rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence.
Have you caught on to Fox’s supernatural thriller/investigative drama Sleepy Hollow? If not, why not? There’s still room to jump on the bandwagon and you’re only one season behind so it won’t take long to catch up.
For the rest of us who were hooked on the show from season one, episode one, cast members Tom Mison (‘Ichabod Crane’) and Nicole Beharie (‘Lt Abbie Mills’) along with executive producers Heather Kadin and Mark Goffman promise season two won’t let us down. They also promised that Ichabod’s coat will not be getting burned up and tossed away anytime in the near future…
Sitting down to chat about the show while at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con, Mison, Beharie, and the executive producers didn’t give away any spoilers but they did talk about what fans can look forward to when the series returns on September 22, 2014.
The event series Wayward Pines produced by M. Night Shyamalan and based on the book Pines by Blake Crouch won’t debut on Fox until 2015, but the big-name cast was willing and eager to talk about the series at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con. The Wayward Pines ensemble includes Matt Dillon, Carla Gugino, Melissa Leo, Toby Jones, Charlie Tahan, Shannyn Sossamon and Tim Griffin, and the list of directors who brought the story to life on the small screen is equally as impressive.
Teaming up at Comic-Con, Sossamon and Griffin talked about their characters, the source material, and the A-list directors who worked on the limited series.
The Plot:
Imagine the perfect American town… beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you’re going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines. Based on the best-selling novel Pines by Blake Crouch and brought to life by suspenseful storyteller M. Night Shyamalan, Wayward Pines is the intense new mind-bending 10-episode event thriller evocative of the classic hit Twin Peaks.
Secret Service Agent ETHAN BURKE (Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon) drives to the bucolic town of Wayward Pines, ID, searching for two missing federal agents. One of the best Secret Service agents in the Seattle office, he’s the man who knew missing agent KATE HEWSON (Carla Gugino) better than anyone. They were more than partners; their relationship nearly destroyed Ethan’s marriage. Everything changes when a truck slams into his car…and he wakes up in the Wayward Pines Hospital, with the intense and unpredictable NURSE PAM (Academy Award and Emmy Award winner Melissa Leo) at his bedside.
It soon appears that Pam is more interested in harming than healing. She and Ethan grow into deadly rivals, and her role in the town proves much deeper than anyone realizes. As the mysteries within the town pile up, Ethan starts to question his own sanity. He is confronted by the mysterious and charismatic DR. JENKINS (Emmy Award nominee Toby Jones), the psychiatrist who treats him at Wayward Pines Hospital. As he begins to meet some of the local residents, including toymaker HAROLD BALLINGER (Reed Diamond), Ethan forms a bond with BEVERLY (Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee Juliette Lewis), a bartender who is as wary of Wayward Pines as he is.
Back home in Seattle, Ethan’s wife, THERESA BURKE (Shannyn Sossamon), a former Secret Service Agent trainee, is informed by Ethan’s boss, ADAM HASSLER (Tim Griffin), that early testing shows Ethan was never in the car which was recovered on the side of the road outside of Wayward Pines. They’re still investigating. But this isn’t enough for Theresa. So she sets out on her own search for her husband, along with their teenage son, BEN (Charlie Tahan). Meanwhile, Ethan is challenged at every turn by the town’s die-hard residents, especially SHERIFF ARNOLD POPE (Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard), who takes offense at a Secret Service agent showing up on his turf.
Ethan’s continuing investigation only turns up more and more questions, and each one leads him to the most important question of all: What’s wrong with Wayward Pines?
Josh Dallas (Photo by Richard Chavez/ShowbizJunkies)
Josh Dallas and Ginnifer Goodwin are new parents in real life and on the hit ABC series Once Upon a Time which is returning for season four on September 28, 2014. With the arrival of a new bouncing bundle of joy on the show, things will change for both mom and dad – and likely in ways no one can predict, given the show’s track record for pulling off big surprises. At the 2014 San Diego Comic Con, Dallas talked about what’s in store for Charming and Snow as they adjust to having a baby and what fans of the series can expect to see happening with his character this upcoming season.
Josh Dallas Once Upon a Time Interview:
What’s going on this next season that you’re excited about?
Josh Dallas: “Well, I’m excited about these new characters coming onto the show. I’m excited about the Frozen characters because I think it’s a great story. I love the movie, I love the story. It’s a love story about two sisters between two very strong women. Once Upon a Time is all about strong women, so I think it’s a perfect fit. It’s a perfect addition to our show and I can’t wait to see these characters intermingle with all of us.”
How’s David going to change now that he’s a new dad?
Josh Dallas: “I think it really agrees with him. I think you’re going to see him … This is the first chance that Snow and David have the opportunity to be parents again. It was kind of robbed from them. It was robbed from them with Emma, so they’re going to do the best they can to be the best they can to be the best parents they can and protect that baby. It’s going to be like raising a baby. I think you’ll see maybe some conflict where he wants to help more and maybe she wants to take it all on herself, and maybe he feels a little lost in that kind of way. I think they’re going to be great parents.”
Why do you think the struggles between fathers, sons, mothers, and daughters are so important in the world of Once Upon a Time?
Josh Dallas: “Well, because it’s universal. Everybody has a family. Everybody comes from somewhere, right? I think that’s the universal thing. I mean, it’s certainly what connects all the characters in Once Upon a Time. It’s the most dysfunctional family tree you’ve ever seen, but I think that’s what strikes a chord with people and that’s why people tune in. That’s where the emotional stuff lies, right? Family.”
How has it been to explore Charming and discover his complicated backstory? He’s got faults and isn’t perfect.
Josh Dallas: “Amazing. I mean it’s amazing to be able to explore that character in that kind of way because I think he is iconic and the savior and there’s not anything else there, so it’s good to be able to explore all those other fractured bits of him and figure out what makes him tick and what makes him who he is. What’s interesting about this season already even though we’re only on the second episode, we’re going to see a friendship that Charming had in his past. A really important friendship to him with a character that you might not necessarily think of that belongs with Charming. It changes the whole course of his life, literally.”
Are there questions from fans about the series that surprise you?
Josh Dallas: “I think what always surprises me, because I never want to … I don’t think any of us ever want to just assume this kind of thing, but it’s the connection that the fans have with the show and the connections that the fans have with the characters. They’re so invested and they’re so passionate and I think that’s always surprising. It’s not necessarily the questions that they ask, it’s their connection with the show itself that is just surprising.”
Do you think these characters will ever get a happily ever after ending?
Josh Dallas: “It’s a fairy tale setting. God, I hope so. I hope so for these characters because it’s just one thing after another with them. I mean my hope, which is what the show is all about, my hope for it is that they all find their happy ending. Even Rumpel, even Regina, all these characters, I hope that they all find their happy ending. It would be kind of nice. It would be a great payoff for all those characters I think. But, who knows?”
What would you like to see for your character this season?
Josh Dallas: “What we will see for sure, and also what I hope for but I think what we’ll definitely see is him growing and growing and growing and becoming stronger and stronger as a character. I think now that he’s a dad and he has…last season towards the end of the season he really faced his ultimate fear and that was failure as a father. Once he faced that, he literally faced that and sword fought himself. Once he admitted that he was scared that was somehow freeing to him. He’s now stronger and I think that’s going to keep growing and growing with him and I think his relationships are going to keep getting stronger, particularly with Emma. I think that’s going to keep growing and you’re going to see a lot of similarities starting with those two. I think they’re very similar in many ways and you’re going to see that growing.
You’re just going to find out more of his backstory and what makes him tick, particularly in the first half of the season. Like I said, he’s going to have a relationship with someone who changed his life. A really important relationship.”
Co-written and directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez and produced by Guillermo del Toro, The Book of Life will be arriving in theaters on October 17, 2014 and 20th Century Fox has just unveiled a brand new colorful trailer for the animated comedy. Gutierrez assembled a voice cast that includes Christina Applegate, Ice Cube, Hector Elizondo, Diego Luna, Zoë Saldana, and Channing Tatum.
The Plot:
The Book of Life, a vibrant fantasy-adventure, tells the legend of Manolo, a conflicted hero and dreamer who sets off on an epic quest through magical, mythical and wondrous worlds in order to rescue his one true love and defend his village.
