Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

What to say about the movie? Not much really. Is there anything else I can say to stretch this paragraph longer. Look at that it's long enough now. Let's start.










The movie starts with a woman named Molly Mahoney (Natalie Portman). She wants to be a composer but at the moment she is just the manager of a magical toy store where the toys come to life, called Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Molly meets with her boss Mr. Edward Magorium (Dustin Hoffman). Mr. Magorium says he has a gift for her which turns out to be a big block of wood (wait, what?). Molly is confused by the block of wood but Magorium changes the subject and tells her that he is hiring an accountant. Mr. Magorium opens the store. The accountant named Henry Weston (Jason Bateman) arrives at The Emporium. Mr. Magorium shows Henry to his office and tells him that he is going to die and he is leaving the store to Molly. A kid with no friends (Who is also the narrator) named Eric (Zach Mills) notices a small grey spot that seems to be on the wall and he tells Mr. Magorium about it and Mr. Magorium tells Eric to keep an eye on grey spot.

Quote from movie: "Life is an occasion  rise to it"

The next day Mr. Magorium tells Molly about the fact that he is leaving the store to her. But she isn't sure she is ready to own the store and the store goes berserk. Luckily everyone escapes the store. So the employees of the store hold a meeting. Magorium once again tells Molly that he is going to die and he is leaving the shop to Molly. Molly checks him in to a hospital. But the doctors can't find anything wrong with him so he goes back to his home in the toy store. The next day Molly makes sure that Mr. Magorium has the best last day of his life ever. When the day ends Mr. Magorium goes back to the store and he throws a paper airplane which makes the world around him dissolve. The next day after Mr. Magoriums funeral the store is completely lifeless and Molly gives up and puts the store up for sale.

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Molly shows a family around. The kid in the family plays with one of the toys and that toy comes back to life. Eric tries to convince Henry to buy the store. So Henry decides go to the store to have a talk with Molly. During the conversation Henry notices the block of wood from the beginning. Molly still believes that the block will do something. Then the block starts to fly. Henry is so shocked by a flying block of wood he passes out. Henry wakes up. Molly tells him that he was at the store alone all night. She also denies that she ever had the block of  wood. Wait why is she denying the block of wood? Mr. Magorium clearly gave it to her. Yeah the movie is not very clear about that. Sorry back to the plot. Henry makes Molly believe in herself  and the store comes back to life. The End

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Now for what I think of the movie. Well for starters the effects for the living toys are pretty good. Dustin Hoffman captures the weirdness of Edward Magorium pretty well. Natalie Portman and Justin Bateman do a good job as Molly Mahoney and Henry Weston. I also like the moral about living life to the fullest. This movie also includes a cameo from a certain famous frog. But there are some problems. For example: there is some very in your face product placement for things like "Playomobile". Not all the jokes in this are laugh your socks off funny, just giggle worthy. Also there are some bits that are so cheesy. I liked this movie. But that doesn't mean you will like it. But if you don't mind the cheesiness I think you will like it.

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