family/kids archives - Page 11 of 32

Max movie review: all dogs go to war

Fri, Aug 07, 2015

Jingoistic propaganda and heart-tugging cornball melodrama about a dog with PTSD. It’s how we are Enduring Freedom. God bless America.

Inside Out movie review: all the feels

Wed, Jul 29, 2015

51 comments

There is joy and wonder in this marvelous mounting of a human mind, and a thrilling audacity in how it dares at such a strange and impossible thing.

Strange Magic movie review: bad spell

Sun, May 24, 2015

13 comments

Apparently this was inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it has about as much in common with that as Burger King does with Macbeth.

Moomins on the Riviera movie review: really old-fashioned adventure

Sat, May 23, 2015

2 comments

The hand-drawn animation is serene and charming, but the story and characters are so unpleasantly retrograde that I found little enjoyment here.

Tomorrowland (aka Tomorrowland: A World Beyond) movie review: back to the future

Thu, May 21, 2015

41 comments

It gets a tad heavy-handed, but my eyes welled with tears of geeky joy at the film’s embrace of an optimism it steadfastly refuses to see as old-fashioned.

Two by Two: Ooops… The Ark Has Gone (aka Two by Two: God’s Little Creatures, aka All Creatures Big and Small) movie review: global apocalypse, you know, for kids

Fri, May 01, 2015

21 comments

This spectacularly ill-conceived movie is what happens when a cheap ripoff cannot even rise to the level of crass Hollywood junk.

Beyond the Mask movie review: assassin’s creed

Wed, Apr 08, 2015

49 comments

Wannabe Christian swashbuckler throws a lot of stuff up on the screen in the hopes that something will stick as exciting and romantic. None of it does.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water movie review: Bikini Hero 6

Fri, Mar 27, 2015

6 comments

Absurdity abounds in this odyssey of groan-worthy punning, new ways of defying cartoon physics, epic food fights, trippy time-travel, and superhero sendups.