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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…match Pixar in terms of their Cars pictures. The scripting is a tad more advanced from typical kids’ fare as well (though a “yeah, they’re real” line felt desperately out… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
…of my kids’ lives. However, I’m also a kinda picky guy. (It’s kind of a job prerequisite for a critic!) And like another of my favorites, The Simpsons, I’m one… |
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Tinker Bell And The Legend Of The Neverbeast
…audience, the DisneyToon people have got my respect. I have never felt bad watching these with my kids, and I have been consistently impressed with the animation quality (and in… |
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Shaun the Sheep Movie
…the more gentle humor of Aardman. Don’t take that the wrong way. This isn’t a movie only kids will enjoy. And there is all the requisite potty humor Americans seem… |
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Hotel Transylvania 2
Back in 2012, when the trailers for the first Hotel Transylvania came out I, like a lot of people, thought we were going to get another dumbed down animated kids… |
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The Peanuts Movie
…pretty well. Maybe the nicest surprise for me, because it was something I hadn’t even thought about, was the voice acting. Like the specials and previous films, kids were enlisted… |
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The Lion Guard: Return Of The Roar
…fur every time he’s able to use the roar), but it also shows potential to be a fun adventure series for kids. I may not quite be feeling the love… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…the first week of December. Because of the money we will be spending on this trip, I’ve warned our kids that Christmas will be a little lighter on presents this… |
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The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…the end the story was always about two siblings scared more of growing up and moving on than they were of monsters and mayhem. Kids are living it, and grownups… |
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A marriage proposal does not go as planned in new trailer for Bling
…Brink,” Spy Kids) and James Woods (“Justice League Action,” Hercules) and distributed by Momentum Pictures and produced by DigiArt in association with Digital Idea and Celsius Entertainment. BLING follows the… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…manage to be a profitable film for DreamWorks. It had a nice commercial run and it even won over audiences in different ways. Younger kids enjoyed the occasional slapstick nature… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…from before when Disney sidekicks were just shoehorned in to please the kids, and an elevated level of filmmaking (the producing/directing team of Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale and Don Hahn… |
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Animated Views’ 2017 Animated Movie Guide
…(the trailer was shown before my screening of Moana, with the kids getting audibly excited when it began before becoming dead silent), and still might not be enough to convince… |
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Trolls: Party Edition
…message that kids and adults can take something home from. While it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea (if you’ve found the film’s trailers obnoxious, you might want to steer… |
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The Powerpuff Girls: Tiara Trouble
…some Powerpuff Girls, and while this series may not quite capture the absurd magic of the original, there’s still enough to like here to give it a recommendation. Kids will… |
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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
…bodily humor, that is impressive. Kids may love it. And adults with kids can feel safe knowing there’s enough here that they won’t be bored, even if they don’t plan… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…animate titles and sequences for such Disney live-action films as The Parent Trap, Babes In Toyland, and Mary Poppins, and he contributed his artistic skill to the “I’m No Fool”… |
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The Lego Ninjago Movie
…movies have all had an interesting thread running through them — kids dealing with their parents. In the original film it was a kid trying to make a connection with… |
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Dora recovers $17 million treasure; Toy Story 4 now biggest in franchise
…matters was director James Bobin–who had previously helmed 2011’s The Muppets as well as 2016’s Alice Through the Looking Glass–and an appealing marketing campaign which targeted both current kids and… |
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Toy Story 4, Hair Love, 1917 win animation Oscars
…is for our kids, we love you. MARK NIELSEN: We want to thank the moviegoing audience so much especially those that grew up with Toy Story. We hope that your… |
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Farmageddon: A Shaun the Sheep Movie
…have is the more gentle humor of Aardman. Don’t take that the wrong way. This isn’t a movie only kids will enjoy… What I mean is Aardman doesn’t go for… |
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What’s your view? Tell us in the comments!
…kids are into! OK, so in reality we’re way behind the times when it comes this! While we’ve had message boards since our launch in 2003, we’ve been reluctant to… |
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Soul
…better phrase. Hollywood has simplistic morals that usually get repeated over and over again in media for kids. Pixar sometimes gives kids a little more nuanced message. In Soul, the… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…producers of the upcoming kids series Star Trek: Prodigy; plus adult animated comedies Star Trek: Lower Decks, as the scrappy underdogs of the U.S.S. Cerritos return in an exciting second… |
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Despicable Me 4
…Lucy has a storyline with the kids. The Minions have a storyline. And the villain has a storyline. Only one of Gru’s storylines and the villain storyline ever cross paths… |
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Dog Man
…author Dav Pilkey to either your kids or yourself, you’ll still find plenty to enjoy here. Although not necessarily explained in the film, Dog Man fully embraces the absurd nature… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…with both sides in a stale mate, both ready to prove their side “right” by using the ultimate weapon: the Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo. Not having read this book, I can’t… |
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Wood Talks About Feet
Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood tells Sci Fi Wire about Happy Feet, a new animated movie from director George Miller (Mad Max, Babe): “Wood describes Mumble as a… |
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Roy and Stan comment on Eisner's recent speech
The Fabulous Disney Babe points out that Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold have commented on Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s recent speech and have posted their comments at their rallying… |
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UPDATE: Jerry Goldsmith service
…the 1975 TV-movie Babe and the 1974 miniseries QB VII. Born in Los Angeles on February 10, 1929, Goldsmith began his composing career in the late 1940s in radio and… |
