Sentences with phrase «kid flicks like»

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.

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.

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.»

«There's nothing like seeing the parade with my kids or going to Flick - n - Float, or Touch a Truck.

It seems like the perfect movie to go to over the holidays with your family (if your kids are teens or older — there is some sex) and it's not just a chic flick because I think men will enjoy it too.

From the» 90's classic Clueless to the cool kids of Rydell High in Grease and more recent fare, like Dope, we considered any flick that features lockers and fab style.

Like virtually all of PRC's cowboy flicks, Billy the Kid Outlawed was directed by the ubiquitous Sam Newfield.

Anyway, the movie is one most people will like for a old school flick, similar to E.T and Short Circuit but still very unique in ways about a Kid in love with a Living Dirt Bike.

Like a Judd Apatow thriller or a Michael Haneke kids flick, the concept of a Claire Denis comedy at first sounds like a contradiction in teLike a Judd Apatow thriller or a Michael Haneke kids flick, the concept of a Claire Denis comedy at first sounds like a contradiction in telike a contradiction in terms.

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.

At the top of the list, the billion - dollar big guns: franchises, superhero movies, animated kid - flicks and single - serving comedies — the whole high - calorie / low nutritional monoculture diet the studios would prefer us to subsist on, like docile teenage boys easily distracted by big bangs and shiny objects.

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..

I thought he'd spent himself on flotsam like the last two Spy Kids flicks, thought he'd really screwed the pooch on a fiasco like Once Upon a Time In Mexico, on which he mistook Sergio Leone's formalist genre Diaspora for a mess of ideas trailing camera flourishes.

A thoroughly exciting and engrossing story makes for great entertainment with Monster House, a film that doesn't constantly resort to potty humour or feel like the mass - produced cardboard cut - out kids flicks we've seen recently.

Like so many kids» flicks, the school bullies here are cartoonish villains, berating Meg simply for having a missing parent.

Of course the Will Eisner comic this flick is based on is quite old — like WWII old, like it was old when your dad was a kid.

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.

The coda that gets into things with Jeff's wife and kid feel like something of a letdown after the excitement of the flick's real climax.

Yes, you have some typically «kid - friendly» characters — Bibble, the various goofy sea - creatures, the big friendly dog - things that Malta hangs out with — and plenty of stuff that kids will like and enjoy, but make no mistake about it, this flick does not pull its punches.

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.

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.

It was going to be Sly's first role in a movie he didn't direct since Spy Kids 3 - D in 2003, and the two seemed like they should work well together considering their mutual love of gritty action flicks.

Hell, Ill admit to liking the American Godzilla (its Godzilla kids, get over it, yeah, hes different, the movie is silly, but its a fun flick, and nothing more, like the originals).

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.

Speilberg blockbusters, Saturday morning cartoons, Ghostbusters and kids road flicks like Stand by Me are huge influences on the title.

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