Race to Witch Mountain

Race to Witch Mountain is your typical family friendly Hollywood movie. You have your underdog, your evil villain, and not so evil villain all chasing your group. Dwayn Johnson has always made kid friendly films. However, he has not starred in a true family friendly film until Race to Witch Mountain. While Dwayne Johnson is great at action flicks, … [Read more...]

Inkheart

Inkheart is a film based on the first book of the trilogy written by Funke. The film only chronicles the first title leaving room for sequels. Although I have not read the books, the film version is watered downed from the original work. This is expected as books can’t be translated 100% accurately into a motion picture. If you enjoyed Stardust, … [Read more...]

elf

Will Ferrel makes a rare PG comedy instead of his usual rated R college humor movies. As a comedy and holiday family film, it works. Ferrel has made a career out of making college humor movies like Old School and Step Brothers. Thismovie is aimed at holiday movie crowd looking for an easy going film without crude jokes. The movie is about an elf … [Read more...]

jingle-all-the-way

This movie has taken a lot of criticism and generally been laughed off as fairly bad movie. Any Conan O'Brien fan will recognize this movie every time Arnold "shows up" as a guest. It'sinherently absurd to picture the Terminator in a family film where he has to fight off other shoppers instead of robots. I think that's why this film has taken great … [Read more...]

chronicles-of-narnia-prince-caspian

The sequel to the popular first movie. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian definitely moves into darker territory. I'm not sure if that's the reason why it did not do as well as the first one in the box office. I felt that the main characters being children limited its ability to move into darker story … [Read more...]

night-at-the-museum

This movie was little disappointing for me. I knew it was a family friendly movie. But, I didn't find it all that enjoyable. There were some funny moments in the movie. It had great premise but I don't quite see Ben Stiller as a family movie type of actor. Maybe I keep flashing back to those funny scenes in There's Something about Mary. Anyone … [Read more...]

the-clone-wars

George Lucas probably should have stopped making Star Wars movie after the Return of the Jedi. Granted Revenge of the Sith was fairly good movie compared to the two previous prequels. I'm not sure if this animated movie and the subsequent animated series on Cartoon Network is necessary. Star Wars: The Clone Wars is the animated movie that is … [Read more...]

wall-e

Personally, I hate disaster movies such as The Day After Tomorrow. We get it. We ruined our planet. What will the penguins do? Give it a rest already. It's really tiring how Hollywood has taken this global warming and human excess to the extreme. It's trite and tiring at best. I avoid this type of movie like the plague. However, I loved … [Read more...]

madagascar

This films emulates a lot of the recent animated blockbusters such as Finding Nemo, Shrek, and various other Dreamworks and Pixar animation efforts. The story is not terribly original but the people behind the works execute it very well. It targets the young audience but works equally well attracting teens to adults. So, it's movie that anyone … [Read more...]

eight-below

I didn't really expect too much from this movie. I figure it was another Disney flick aimed at the young crowd to turn a quick buck. To be fair, Disney does put out good animations from time to time with Pixar. However, they shovel out dreadful family flicks that are just horrendous. So, when I came across this film I figure it'd be good waste … [Read more...]