Get Ready For "Captain America:The Winter Soldier"

If you haven’t seen “Captain America:  The Winter Soldier” yet, here’s a piece of advice-get everything you need from the snack bar before the movie starts because you will not be leaving your seat.  

Then hold onto your popcorn and get ready for two hours of nonstop, sit on the edge of your seat fast paced, action and fun at its best. This latest edition in the Captain America and Avenger movie series are what Walt Disney Motion Picture Studios and Marvel does best-combines the excitement and rip roaring adventure of a fast paced action movie with the brilliant comedy and delivery of some of the best one liners around and you have yourself what movies are supposed to be all about-an escape from reality. Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1941, Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is produced by Kevin Feige, p.g.a. directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, from a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and stars Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp and Hayley Atwell, with Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. 

“Captain America :The Winter Soldier” is the second installment in the Captain America franchise. Without giving away too much of the plot, because the twists and turns and surprises are what makes this movie a cut above the rest, after the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever- widening conspiracy while fighting off assailants sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier. 

Just when you think you have it all figured out and you know who the bad guys are, you quickly find out that you don’t. Can anyone be trusted? Has Captain America really gone rogue? Does Robert Redford ever age? 

Here's A Clip from "Captain America: The Winter Soldier"

For me, the best part of this movie was the fact that it is great story telling and character driven-it has heart and it is that heart and soul that dictates the direction of the plot.  Most super hero movies have me leaving the theater feeling that I had a good time, but that they probably could have cut off 30 minutes and I would have been OK with that but not so this time. “Captain America: The Winter Solider” is the perfect blend of story telling, combined with just the right amount of incredible but not over powering action, all done in a way that helps to advance the plot. In other words it has something for everyone and it leaves you wanting more.  Make sure you stay until the very last credit has rolled for not one but two surprises.  Make sure you check out “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” this weekend and hold onto your seats. You’ll be sitting on the edge of them the entire time.

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Gayle is a lifelong educator by day and avid blogger by night and is the owner and cofounder of the Disney Gals, one of the most popular Disney blogs around! Proud mommy to 5, Grammy to 4 she is blessed to share her life with amazing family and friends who encourage her to chase her dreams no matter where they may lead.  When not in the classroom, she can be found following her son as he dances his way through life, or working with young performers in free nationally recognized after school children’s theater program that she founded 13 years ago. On any given day you will find Gayle skipping her way through life with a giggle and a smile knowing that today is meant to be lived and enjoyed. To learn more about Gayle, click here.

Get Your Disney on with Jumping Bean Clothes at Kohl’s #MagicAtPlay + WIN a $50 Kohl’s Gift Card

Are You Ready to Win Your Own Kohl's Gift Card?

When it comes to clothes, what’s the first place you think of? For us, it’s Kohl’s. Known for their great quality, fabulous selections all at affordable prices, how could they get any better? Well they just did with the addition of their new Disney-branded apparel collection for kids under the Jumping Beans brand, now available exclusively at Kohl’s stores nationwide and as well as online.

This fun and fashionable line features exclusive Disney artwork and is made with the quality and value parents have come to expect from Kohl’s. Their first collection features Disney’s iconic characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse is available now at Kohl’s stores everywhere as well as Kohls.com. 

Thursday night, the girls and I had a chance to shop the collection for ourselves and as the pictures show, they had the time of their lives. With the adorable Americana theme, one outfit was cuter than the next. With so many selections and combinations to choose from, we had no choice but to buy more than one outfit.  

The exclusive Disney-branded apparel by Jumping Beans collections, is available for infants (12-24 months), toddlers (2T-4T), boys (4-7) and girls (4-7), and are displayed together in such a way that you really get a Disney inspired shopping experience.  And as if it couldn’t get any better, everything is on sale for 30% off and if you use your Kohl’s Reward Card, which is free for the asking, you can take another 15% off your total purchase. 

So let’s review-the quality and the affordability of Kohl’s combined with the magic of Disney-it’s a winning combination any way you look at it.  And speaking of winning, thanks to the great folks at Kohl’s one lucky Disney Gal reader is about to win a $50 gift card for Kohl’s shopping spree of their own.  Then you too can have the cutest kids in town as they are sporting their new Disney Jumping Bean Magic at Play clothing thanks to the good people at Kohl’s. 

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Now its time to say goodbye

Now its time to say goodbye to all our company.

M-I-C  see you real soon, K-E-Y  why? because we like you. M-O-U-S-E.

It's hard to believe almost 2 years have gone by since the Disney Gals came together. We have seen each other through good times and bad. New jobs, new family additions, new homes and many health issues. The Gals have been here to lean on each other, laugh with and cry with. And just like a family, the Gals have grown and changed. The most recent change will be our departure from the group. We have learned so much from this group and have made life long friendships, for that we are truly grateful. 

In the coming weeks we will be here to offer our full support to the Gals in the transition, and of course wish them the very best. We know with Gayle at the reigns, it's onward and upward for the group and we look forward to seeing what new journeys the blog takes them on!

Kelly & Judy

Wordless Wednesday - April 2, 2014

WELCOME TO THE DISNEY GALS WORDLESS WEDNESDAY BLOG HOP!

THE THEME OF THE DAY IS:
DISNEY CALENDAR SHOT!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special Thanks goes out to Deb from Focused on the Magic for

hosting the weekly blog hop!

 

 



The Marvel Cinematic Universe

A  Guide to the Marvel Universe

With the upcoming release of "Captain America: Winter Soldier" this Friday, we thought it was time to take a look at how this Marvel Comic came to the Silver Screen. And who better to take us through the Marvel Cinematic Universe than our own Bob Eckman, lifetime lover of all things Marvel. 

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is opening next Friday, April 4th. It will be the third film of Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe culminating in the Avengers: Age Of Ultron opening next May 1, 2015. And what does any of that gobbledygook mean and why does it matter? Well the short answer is it’s all Disney! ‘Nuff Said!! If you’re still not convinced you should know superhero movies aren’t just for the boys anymore.

A long time ago back when dinosaurs roamed the earth my grandfather gave me a box of Superman and Batman comics. I couldn’t read yet but the bright, colored pictures sucked me in and I was able to puzzle out enough of the words to get the gist of what the stories were about. I was hooked on what became known as the Silver Age of Comics of the 50’s and 60’s. I got a little older and didn’t come back to comics until Hollywood special effects caught up with them and movies like the first Superman films and later the Batman films of the late 80‘s and 90‘s became a reality. But even these films, as visually stunning as some of them were never really held my interest as the stories usually included a pretty fair helping of campy ridiculousness taking their cue from the entirely campy, though wildly popular Batman TV series of the late 60’s. It was as if Hollywood didn’t believe anyone could take comic book characters seriously. They had to not only inject a large helping of humor but also make the heroes look like buffoons in the process.

In the 80’s the comic book world started changing. There started to appear large-scale graphic novels with sophisticated stories that were serious and with serious ramifications for the characters. Back in the 60’s when Marvel comics started introducing characters like Spider Man, X Men, Iron Man and a host of others their stories had been a bit more serious with elements of teenage angst. The graphic novels of the 80’s exponentially pumped all this up and by the 90’s Hollywood was ready to finally get started getting serious about comic book characters. The successful and ongoing series of X Men movies starring serious actors like Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan and Hugh Jackman arrived in the late 90’s. These people might be pretty strange but they had serious human problems and situations. And the action and special effects rocked!

A few years later Marvel, the comic book company behind Iron Man, Hulk, Spider Man, X Men, the Avengers and many others decided to get directly into the movie business instead of licensing their characters out to other studios. But they did it with a difference. They had a big super hero team, the Avengers, which included a variable and ever changing groups of characters. Why not make several separate movies featuring the solo adventures of various characters leading to a big team up movie with an earthshaking adventure that only the whole team could possible solve and survive? And furthermore why not put some crossover bits into every solo movie thus solidifying the concept that all these heroes existed in the same world? Thus the Marvel Cinematic Universe was born. And in 2009 Disney bought Marvel lock, stock, and barrel.

So far we’ve had Phase One, which included solo films featuring, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Captain America and culminated with the Avengers in which the heroes saved the world and simultaneously tore up a lot of New York City. This film left enough questions unanswered that the fallout has affected all the main heroes in their next round of Phase Two movies. Iron Man aka Tony Stark was so torn up about what happened in the Avengers that he spent a large portion of Iron Man 3 trying to cope with it and ultimately gave up all his Iron Man suits and technology. Thor managed a rough reconciliation with his brother Loki, one of the main adversaries of the Avengers film only to lose (?) him at the end of the last Thor movie. And now it’s Captain America’s turn. We get to see him go through the wringer next week and then next year we get to see how the whole Avenger’s team deal with whatever fierce challenge Marvel has been building up to.

I, for one, am getting very excited about seeing Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I try to stay as completely ignorant of what happens in these films as possible prior to seeing them but the advance buzz and reviews are pretty spectacular so far. In fact Disney is so excited about the film that they’ve already hired the director and screenwriters for the next Captain America film without even waiting to see how this one does at the box office. That’s entirely unheard of. April 4th can’t arrive too soon.

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See CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER in theaters everywhere on APRIL 4, 2014 !