Sentences with phrase «character than some of the adults»

There's also a strong performance by Alexandra Holden, as the heroine's best friend, facing an unexpected pregnancy with more character than some of the adults show.

Not exact matches

Guroian's loving discussions of these stories do more than respect their integrity; they make the stories, and their variously lovable characters, alive again for adults.

Dr Kirsten Rennie, from the University of Hertfordshire's Centre for Lifespan and Chronic Illness Research, said: «Consumers may think that foods marketed for children, using cartoon characters and promoted for lunchboxes might be healthier options than the equivalent foods marketed more for adults.

Parents of main characters were more than five times as likely to die in children's cartoons as they were in films targeted at adults.

The fact that the trio of actors are now adults is reinforced as Ron is disguised behind a beard that makes him look like a dashing Musketeer rather than a slapstick fancy dress character.

Venom without Spider - Man may sound dicey to some, but many of the antihero's biggest fans would likely be unsatisfied with a repeat of the character's campy role in Spider - Man 3 - so it seems Sony may be erring on the more adult - oriented side for this film rather than trying to square it with Tom Holland's decidedly family friendly take on the wallcrawler.

There is no question that Mann, Cena, and Barinholtz are having a ton of fun playing their characters but I found it hard to watch grown adults behaving more immaturely than their teenage daughters.

Every scene is constructed with a need for mass appeal, targeting slapstick for the kiddies and plenty of old film references for the adults, and almost all of these are a distraction from the main story, rather than a means to enhance the characters or plot.

His friends include recently separated Baptiste (Franck Dubosc) and Olivia (Florence Foresti) and an assemblage of other undeveloped characters dealing with other issues that comes across as an attempt at adult issues bingo rather than an incisive vivisection of middle age — divorce, professional / financial strain, intimacy, children — that can be the strongest and weakest parts of the film.

Though at times he's been presented as little more than a attention deficient 12 - year - old boy in an adult murderer's body, there have been cases where the character has been presented as a bit more than a simple collection of crass one - liners and hit - or - miss slapstick gags.

In «Redbelt,» Ejiofor's character wants to teach his adult students — a cop, a traumatized rape victim and others — to defend themselves, but more than anything he wants to instill in them a sense of honor, and all the attendant «Master Po - isms» that go with it.

Cougar comedies abound these days, and the possibilities of this romantic angle could indeed make for an interesting movie (it was Prime's hook), but The Rebound is like the character of Aram himself, wanting to make the step into the real adult themes than it has the maturity level to tackle.

But then it could be argued that the hoops action is almost incidental in this fact - based story, for the title character, Richmond High School (though actually filmed at my alma mater, Long Beach Polytechnic High School, which somehow became the go - to ghetto high school filming location after I graduated) basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), is less concerned with how his young charges fare on the court than they do in the classroom and, ultimately, in the game of adult life.

As an educator I can't think of anything more exciting than the fact that we might help children obtain the character skills to live a life, so as adults at the end they might feel they thrived instead of merely survived.

To illustrate just how much courage that takes, one of the adult characters in the story says that he'd rather repeat Picket's suicidal charge at the Battle of Gettysburg than face the Klan on a ride.

The system was developed in 1954 by the Chinese Ministry of Education in order to improve the literacy rates of adult Chinese (a couple of dozen letters being easier to learn than the more than 40,000 characters that make up Standard Mandarin).

A lot of the subject matter is topical, the CSI bits are better than ever, and the characters have finally matured somewhat: they have gone from acting like self - indulgent and irritating juveniles to reasonably responsible adults, although Lucy could probably do with anger management classes.

- parents spent on average $ 131 on toys to life games over the last six months - almost 80 percent of families considered this a good investment - two thirds are planning to invest further - 70 percent of parents in the U.S. are familiar with Interactive Gaming Toys - 41 percent own more than one franchise - 77 percent said it was definitely or probably worth the investment - only 7 percent of families have abandoned play altogether - within households currently playing toys to life games, 52 percent indicate that adults are among those that play - among Nintendo amiibo - playing households with children, 21 % of parents say that only they are playing these games - with other franchises, less then 10 percent of adults play in the household - 22 percent of total character playtime is spent playing with the figurines as toys and not with a video game console - 40 percent of parents state that that their 13 - 17 year olds continue to play with characters like toys or action figures

Related to past discussions, if we're making a simulator based on current era, rather than an adult with an almost complete self, it's much better for a main character of a current - era Megaten to be incomplete children with some doubts in their hearts.

It can be difficult, as a jaded adult, to appreciate a great fairy tale — one where the hero always wins and naivety is a character strength rather than something to grow out of.

Those Awesome Guys and Reverb Triple XP announced that, this Sunday is the season three finale of Rick and Morty, and what better way to celebrate this event than by playing characters from the Adult Swim's animated series in Move or Die?!? Move or Die is an absurdly fast - paced, four - player local and online party game that is guaranteed to ruin friendships!

Titled Don't Forget the Families, the study of 1,085 parenting adults of 3 - to 13 - year - olds found that the quality of parent - child relationships is 10 times more powerful than demographics (race, ethnicity, family composition, and family income) in predicting whether children are developing critical character strengths they need to be their best in school and in life.