Sentences with phrase «kiddie movies»

Johnson, like Vin Diesel, too quickly ditched the action hero career in favor of kiddie movies before featuring in any awesome action flicks.

What started as a pretty fluffy couple of kiddie movies evolved and developed into something borderline epic along the way.

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.

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.

It's rare to have such a stellar cast inhabiting a kiddie movie, but the combined talent helps raise Tuck Everlasting to the realm of quality children's entertainment.

Unfortunately, any hope of that happening has effectively been squashed by «Sea of Monsters,» a half - baked sequel that feels like the kind of kiddie movie Robert Rodriguez knocks out over a few weekends in his backyard.

The people behind the dark and lovely «Coraline» and «Paranorman» offer up a charmless kiddie movie that's unappealing both visually and narratively

But this isn't a kiddie movie: when Victoria becomes queen, she inherits a more adult set of problems and discovers that her freedom is still limited, only in more subtle ways.

Not exact matches

Ok then well im 25 and im a single mom I have my own place and car I currently don't work cause im going to college but I am looking for a part - time job I love to go out to the movies, out to eat, bowling, and to take my kiddies to the park.

The kiddie audience will laugh a few times, but it would take an electron microscope to find an original idea or joke in this entire cartoonish movie.

So next time you find yourselves sputtering mad over the cultural perversity of The Twilight Saga and its ability to rake in billions of sparkle - tainted dollars, an even more culpable target for lowering the standards of cinema can be found merely by looking at kiddie flicks, which undoubtedly kick starts bad taste in movies.

The movie is a surprisingly touching, low - key ballad of middle - aged male regret disguised as a kiddie comedy replete with poop and fart jokes and soccer balls launched at Popper's crotch.

Intended as a parody of B - movie fantasies from the»50s, this satire more directly lampoons kiddie thrillers like «Captain Video,» putting it perilously close to the pop - culture trash it aims to mock.

«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.

After stellar so - called «kiddie flicks» like Elf and Finding Nemo - movies designed to appeal to the whole family - comes The Haunted Mansion, a terminally lame comedy based on a Disneyland ride.

So naturally, as per the dictates of kiddie - movie plotting, when one of the Bergens (Christine Baranski) finds the trolls» hideout and makes off with a group of them, he's forced to pair up with Princess Poppy (Anna Kendrick), the peppiest troll of them all, to journey to the land of the Bergens and rescue their companions.

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.

It makes me wonder whether Scorsese wouldn't have rather gotten rid of the kiddie stuff altogether and focused only on the more grown - up geeky side of it all... except that movie couldn't have been marketed as an escapist holiday treat for families.

This is about all the movie has going for it, because as if it wasn't bad enough that Steele and Grey's relationship has all the depth of a kiddie pool, the two actors have very little chemistry and their interactions, particularly in dialogue scenes, are forced and mechanical.

Its usage speaks to my overall impression of the movie — a collection of pop moments already explored extensively elsewhere, presented with all the emotional depth of a kiddie pool.

Toby Jones stars as a British sound effects man who'd been working on nature documentaries and kiddie shows before getting invited to Italy to work on a movie called The Equestrian Vortex, about fetching young riding academy students who encounter the vengeful spirits of tortured medieval witches.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the idea of taking those faces in your phone and building a movie around them, but you'd actually have to make them into characters and give them a plot that mattered if you didn't want to wind up with this dreary and inane kiddie adventure that's less interesting than 90 minutes of watching someone else play Candy Crush Saga.

Last year's kiddie secret - agent comedy «Agent Cody Banks» was a stupid movie that got by on clever charm.

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.

It's not just that they can't sell movies with mid-range budgets anymore, they're starting to not be able to sell blockbusters, not even to the easy target kiddie demographic (see also: Pan), and the art house is beginning to suffer, too.

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.

Inserting the «Disney» in front of Disney's The Kid gives this new movie a certain kiddie appeal that does not necessarily match the tone of the movie.

You can toss the kiddies the Nook Tablet and they can watch their movie for the 100th time.

Humewood is situated close to the Boardwalk Casino and Shopping Centre, Port Elizabeth's premier entertainment complex with boutique stores, kiddie game centres, movie houses and restaurants.

This spacious luxury, vacation home is located in a secure, gated community, just a few minutes from 2 gorgeous beaches as well as shops and restaurants, and has everything you can think of, plus a few you probably didn't, like: the huge flat screen TV in the main living area with a DVD player, iPod dock and surround sound system for movie night; the private infinity pool terrace with a fountain, waterfall, dedicated kiddie pool and an 8 person jacuzzi; all surrounded by 2,000 square feet of patio space.

That's like someone who says they won't go watch a Pixar movie because it looks too kiddie.

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.»

It's (another) subscription service tailored to children that brings together educational apps and games as well as TV shows and movies curated for the kiddies.

Movie suggestions from way back for kiddies....

The time for seasonal baking with your kiddies, and watching Christmas movies while snuggled up on the couch.

Our ship had a kiddie pool with water slide, a main pool — big enough for volleyball matches — with movie screen and two hot - tubs, and an adults - only pool with café.