My parents bought a 2CV… and don’t ask me why

About a week ago, my parents bought for a 2CV from Ebay. I’m still not sure exactly why (we already have 2 cars – a Hyundai i10 and a Volvo XC90 – from this year and a just a few years ago, respectively), but I suppose it is because:

• They had a 2CV years ago, before I was born, but my Dad slightly bumped it and it fell apart, so they had to get rid of it. Plus, I don’t think they thought it was safe for kids. So why is it suddenly safe now?
• My Mum has a zero-something birthday coming up, so this is a present

Expanding on the safety point, this car really isn’t safe. Most cars these days have something like a 5-star safety rating, and I think this car will have 1/2 a star, maximum. It doesn’t have seatbelts in the back, for a start (though my parents are looking into it). And my Dad proved how easy it is to destroy one about 14 years ago, and the car we have now might be older than the one they had years ago. Anyway, enough of my rant about the car. Here’s a picture:

“Vikram” the 2CV

Oh, yeah, and my parents named it. They name all of their cars. The Volvo’s called “Edward” and the Hyundai’s called “Milo” (they added an “m” in front of the “i10″ on the back of the car to make it say “Milo”). And the 2CV is called “Vikram”. I honestly find it a little weird, but if you think that is, then let me tell you this: my mum wrote a poem about it today. A poem about a car. “How many places have you seen?” is one of the lines. It’s a car. It isn’t alive. It hasn’t seen anything. It’s not alive.

To top it off, my parents have created a blog about this “Vikram”. I’ve ranted about enough today, so I won’t say my thoughts on it, but here’s a link:

http://vikram2cv.wordpress.com/

From the current status of my families’ blogs, I’d say this will last 2 months, tops. Take a look at my families’ ‘current’ blogs (here, here and here) and you’ll see that they are dormant.

Anyway, I suppose that is enough for the day. If I die in that dreaded “Vikram” – which I might – this blog will have to join the graveyard of blogs, just as my families’ has (though they’re still alive). That hopefully won’t happen though.

What are your thoughts on 2CVs?

Men In Black 3 – review

Men in Black III poster

You may have heard of Men In Black. The first film came out in 1997. A sequel came out in 2002. I don’t actually remember much about the first film (except that Agent J is recruited, and there is a really creepy guy with an alien inside him) or anything about the second film, but it works well as a standalone film so I’ll review it as that.

Firstly, the basic plot (but without the ending): a very evil alien has escaped from prison and wants to kill Agent K in the past, before he shot his arm off. So that’s what he manages to do, and only Agent J knows that K didn’t die 40 years ago, and that he was still alive, before time went wrong. But it’s not that simple. If/when K survived, he set up some kind of shield to protect the Earth from the very evil alien’s species, but since he didn’t, the shield was not set up, so the Earth is being attacked. So J has to go back in time, and (try) and sort things out before the Earth gets destroyed…

That synopsis is probably kind of rubbish, but you hopefully get the idea. If not, go and see the film. Does it work? Yes, very much so. There are so over the top times, for example when the very evil alien escapes from prison, but the rest of the film has amazing effects, great acting and it’s generally brilliant. It’s even a little sad at the end, when ______________________________ happens (filling in the blank would kinda spoil the film, sorry).

My favourite character is Griffin, an alien with precognitive powers. He’s kind of weird at first, but then you just grow to like his predicting the future powers, and how he can tell if a future is going to happen just by someone forgetting to leave a tip.

Overall rating? 5 stars. 5/5. That’s what I gave it on Rotten Tomatoes, and I really think it is worth all of those stars.