Sentences with phrase «kid flicks as»

Not exact matches

But in addition to kid - friendly flicks like «The Polar Express,» «Elf» and «Home Alone,» you'll also find decidedly more adult fare, such as «Bad Santa,» «When Harry Met Sally» and unlikely classic «Die Hard.»

In yet another post - «Jerry Maguire» attempt at prolonging his title as The Cutest Child Actor in America, towheaded Jonathan Lipnicki took top - billing in Gothic kid - flick «The Little Vampire» (aww!!)

«Die Mommie Die» (Sundance Films) This campy homage to»60s Ross Hunter flicks features the writer - actor Charles Busch («Irma Vep») as Angela, a pop diva mixed up in a murder - whodunit with a tennis pro, a gigolo, the maid, an actor and a couple of screwed - up kids.

I'm not entirely certain why this inspired - by - a-true-story (as chronicled in Andrea Perron's book, «House of Darkness, House of Light») shocker is rated R, except perhaps that the MPAA might have though the film too psychologically intense for kids, but, to me, it's no more intense that PG - 13 horror flicks like The Ring and The Grudge.

It's targeted for a slighter older audience than your standard animated kid's flick as it tackles very strong subjects along the way.

Captain Underpants: The Epic First Movie Rated PG for mild rude humor throughout Rotten Tomatoes Score: 87 % In spite of great reviews from both critics and audiences, as well as a large base of fans of their kids graphic novels, this animated superhero flick landed with a relative thud in theaters.

Writer - director Stephen Sommers honed his chops on kid flicks such as The Adventures of Huck Finn, which may account for the incessantly juvenile dialogue that pervades this $ 45 - million bomb.

It's the lesson of The Incredibles, one of the bravest, most subversive films the year — and it seems to be the lesson of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as well until the picture caves in to kid - flick conventions and worse.

To be honest, I remember thinking the same when I saw the movie as a kid back in the early 1980s — in the meantime Harryhausen's special effects have been overtaken the visual wizardry of flicks like Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark..

But kidding aside, Hawkins is fantastic, and actually a pretty great fit for an Allen flick which as previously reported will be shot in San Francisco and New York City this summer, and will be (shocker) a «dramedy.»

It borrows heavily from spy kid flicks like Agent Cody Banks and, well, Spy Kids, as well as kid / monkey comedies such as Monkey Trouble and Dunston Checks In but eludes their appeal.

You can say that the fact that all the girl pigeons are portrayed as witless bimbos is a satire of»40s - era attitudes and propaganda flicks, but kids won't read it as satire and instead think it reflects contemporary values.

A screwball - tinged heist flick that not so much feeds «eat the rich» feelings which might be surging in the zeitgeist at the moment as offer up a divergent, flight - of - fancy caper for the middle - aged, The Love Punch plays out like a reimagining of The Parent Trap by way of Ocean's Eleven, and minus the kids.

Rodriguez's career is one of the most prominent and curious dichotomies in Hollywood, as he manages to make both super violent action flicks (Machete, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) and family adventures (the Spy Kids series), employing several of the same actors in both.

While he's certainly given us a handful of great performances in flicks like The Departed and Invincible, his show - stopping turn as Dirk Diggler in Paul Thomas Anderson «s porn epic Boogie Nights proved that this kid was capable of a lot more than modeling underwear and rapping.

It's a decent little flick that kids will have fun with, and adults may as well — even if you really dislike kids» movies, you won't hate it.

Joe Adler's performance as an airhead who claims to have a girlfriend named Athena is effortlessly, amusingly weird, and there are likable digs at student driving, the desperate date quest and Ethan Frome: not bad for a well - intentioned flick about well - intentioned kids who worry too much about disco balls.

Like Transformers before it, it's a great idea for a kid's toy line and a tentpole action flick — and you might as well get the director behind one of the biggest - earning vehicular action movies of all time to help turn it into one.

I must admit to not having read any of J.K. Rowling's insanely popular children's books about the 11 - year - old wizard (here played by Daniel Radcliffe), but it doesn't take a fan to see that director Chris Columbus and screenwriter Steve Kloves took great pains to remain as faithful as possible to their source material — after all, not for nothing does a kid flick like Harry Potter end up clocking in at two - and - a-half hours.

Most people remember it as a rock «n» roll flick about a kid who brings back dancing to an uptight Midwestern town where the local preacher has successfully had it banned.

Robin Williams may be one of the only good things about this flick about a college professor attempting to save the local college by raising money through his science experiments, but that was really enough for me as a kid.

Those speeches, combined with all of the other combat movie cliches found in Battle: Los Angeles, reveal the film to be little more than a traditional war film disguised as an alien invasion flick, tailor - made for a generation of kids raised on first - person shooters and jitter - inducing energy drinks.

All while the tone teeters uncomfortably between lighthearted fun and gritty emotional outpouring, as characters schizophrenically transform from happy - go - lucky kids into depressive angst merchants like flicking a light switch.

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I was very excited by my Charlie's Angels flick hairdo as a kid... loooooooved Charlie's Angels.