Sentences with phrase «kiddie films»

Gomez, a former Disney star, has spent the last few years splitting the difference between kiddie films and more outrageous fare, dipping in between stuff like the Hotel Transylvania franchise and Spring Breakers or Neighbors 2.

The aforementioned opening shots of Snape look more like Impressionist paintings than a scene from a kiddie film.

This envisioning absolutely nails it, making the Stallone version look like a woeful kiddie film.

Unaccompanied Minors doesn't even come close to entering the Holiday Movie Hall of Fame, but it also doesn't provide the painful kiddie film you might expect and therefore avoid.

Too bad it's attached to such an irritating kiddie film.

Not exact matches

The film's kiddie superheroes, trained in lethal combat, distort the educative moral experience.

I suppose DreamWorks and Touchstone were walking a fine line — they didn't want the older demographic thinking this was a kiddie movie so they needed a PG - 13 rating, but I think this film would have been just as effective if they toned it down a tad.

All too kiddie for Apatow's older fan base and a bit too rough and violent to be an all - ages, family - friendly film.

Whereas they film could have been a total «kiddie cash in,» instead it remains self - aware and pokes fun at the very thing it is promoting.

This film too, like In Bruges, is a kind of fairy tale, albeit not one you would read to your kiddies at bedtime.

Mercifully light on the soppy sentimentality that often weighs down most kiddie flicks, Peter Rabbit is a fast - paced, gag - a-minute affair that at times recalls the films of Zucker - Abrahams - Zucker in its willingness to do anything for a laugh.

For all its charm, we can't quite figure out for whom the film is intended: Talking maggots and decaying bodies do not a kiddie movie make.

OK now this franchise just got really silly, the first film was actually OK in a dumb kiddie kind of way but this sequel is just dumber and VERY frustrating.

Retaining the gentle, non-verbal comedy and daffy sight gags of the popular stop - motion TV series — itself a loose spinoff from Aardman's cherished «Wallace and Gromit» franchise — while assigning Shaun and his flock an urban escapade more expansive than their usual short - form gambols, the film should reward small fry and parents jaded by more synthetic kiddie toons.

«The Black Stallion» inspired plenty of kiddie animal movies, but it's deeper impression is in films that try to recreate that feeling of being a child through intimate camerawork and editing that simulates how the mind takes in information.

Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is, like the first film, not to my taste, but it does represent a hair's breadth of improvement and kiddies will giggle, so do as you will.

After an opening scene that is shockingly, poignantly dark, the film becomes the most overly «kiddie» and family - friendly Pixar project yet.

The great schism between teen and award show is largely due to two other, related breaks: the break between adult, teen, and kiddie fare, and the break between awards films and blockbusters.

One of the main problems here is that the film lacks any striking focal point — there's evil evident, right enough, but when the only form it takes is a levitating oinker, a self - jamming door and an imaginary kiddie called «Jody», it's pretty difficult to enter into the spirit of things.

(Its epilogue, taking place in a deli between two protagonists after the storm, is shot in exactly the same way as Brooks's conclusion to Broadcast News, while a late - film kiddie rendition of «Memory» from «Cats» exhumes musty memories of Jersey Girl's Sondheim desecration.)

As a film directed at the «kiddie dollar» Bee Movie hits all the right notes — bright colours in a whirl of activity and smart - cracking anthropomorphised insects are sure to appeal.

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.

Ripping huge chunks of inspiration from the likes of Luc Besson's sci - fi spectacle Lucy, Chan's own kiddie romp The Spy Next Door and... oh, let's go with Roland Emmerich's Universal Soldier, Zhang's hyper - charged, hardly - coherent head - spinner is a star - vehicle concoction for both old and new generations of Asia's favourite film stars.

The film kicks off 15 years after the kiddies visited the gingerbread house and, according to Arterton, «You see a series of flashbacks with their experience of killing that first witch, which is brilliant.»

However, most of the film runs along without much catering to its main plot, concentrating more on its characters, tossing up some pretty clever gags and side stories involving such things as the making of jams, the girls» trying to help Gru to get them a new stepmom, Margo's romantic stirrings, and a good deal of Minion slapstick shenanigans, which will no doubt make this a hit for the kiddies.

If the sturdy Jason Bourne films often feel like the spy game reconfigured for the kiddies, then the screen versions of John le Carré's various bestsellers are catnip for more seasoned viewers, those best able to appreciate the complexities that define both the characters and the plotlines.

As such films as Beasts of the Southern Wild expressed and exploited, when depicting children there's a fine line between free spirit and lost soul, and it can occasionally register as simplistic to use kiddie innocence to prop up a story of genuine economic desperation.

I mean, I can't remember the last time I saw a film about a woman who steps into a kiddie park in her hometown and causes a giant reptilian monster to emerge in South Korea.

Selznick, who adapted his own book, also wrote the novel that inspired Martin Scorsese's whirligig kiddie epic «Hugo,» which harnessed childlike wonderment and 3 - D technology in service of an impassioned brief on the necessity of film preservation.

In other words, since the first Hangover film won over a ton of people, most parents are holding off in rushing the kiddies to the theaters for exorbitant 3D ticket prices this weekend; and are indulging themselves with the «Wolf Pack.»

It was even the subject of a quick Film Twitter shock when someone asked what the # 2 film of the year was (pre-Infinity War) and it turned out to be this relatively standard kiddie flick.

The film version of Mr. Popper's Penguins was directed by Mark Waters, a proven master of kiddie fare between Mean Girls and the remake of Freaky Friday.

It's a superficial film that keeps everything on a kiddie - pool deep, eye candy level throughout.

And this is a reasonably safe family film, 2 provided you have a talk with the kiddies and explain to them that, despite all the things they see on movies, their mommy or daddy is not going to suddenly disappear forever and be replaced by talking animals.

Tedium quickly sets in, followed by frustration over a franchise, in failing to offer a unique spin on the kiddie - film formula, having found no reason for its own existence.

Alternatively, visitors can catch the latest Hollywood films at Platinum Cineplex or go bowling while those with young children will delight in the extensive array of games and kiddie rides within the spacious arcade centre.

The BMA presents Black Box: John Waters» Kiddie Flamingos, a 72 - minute film of children reading a G - rated version of Waters» cult classic, Pink Flamingos.

Among the exhibition's highlights are a photographic installation in which Waters explores the auras and absurdities of famous films, their directors, and actors; a suite of photographs and sculpture that use humor to humanize dark moments in history from the Kennedy assassination to 9/11; and Kiddie Flamingos, a 2014 video work of children reading a G - rated version of Pink Flamingos (Waters» notorious 1972 celebration of all things outsider and extreme).

In the main gallery, Waters will premiere a 74 - minute filmed table reading of Kiddie Flamingos, a new, baby - proofed edit of his filthy cult classic, reimagined for and read by an all - child cast.

Called Kiddie Flamingos, the video depicts a table read of Waters» 1972 film Pink Flamingos, which is as full of any kind of obscenity and depravity that one would hope to imagine — only here it's been recast as a children's movie, with child actors and all the X-Rated content «defanged and desexualized,» according to the gallery, which also calls this G - rated version «more perverse than the original.»