Sentences with phrase «kids flick»

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.

CASE 39 takes a potent subtext about the terrors of unprepared parenthood and wastes it in a rote creepy kid flick that displays both iffy internal logic and a trifling execution.

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.

and, weirdly, even kid flicks as though they're intended for us.

Sure, much of the public's attention is still on Black Panther, which has raked in $ 1.3 billion worldwide, but to be fair, Ready Player One, Fifty Shades Freed and the perplexing kids flick Sherlock Gnomes likely failed on their own merits, not because everyone was rejoining the line to see T'Challa battle Kilmonger again and again.

the rousing kind of kid flick that inspires ten - year - old boys to grab broomsticks, storm the neighborhood hill, and go nuts on pretend aliens with ridiculous faux karate moves.

Leaving aside kids flick Hotel Transylvania 2, last weekend's box office was dominated by such fare as Maze Runner (dystopia), Everest (death by freezing), Black Mass (gangsters), The Visit (horror) and The Perfect Guy (not).

But Waters has a gentle touch, and he shuns the cheap cynicism of most formulaic kid flicks.

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 terms.

Paul Rubens had some misfortunes off screen but he did manage to bring a couple real good kid flicks out.

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.

But this is no ordinary kid flick.

The film comes from the masterminds behind The LEGO Movie, so you know this ain't one of your run - of - the - mill kid flicks.

The formula of broad slapstick, sticky schmaltz, and simple premises continued throughout many of the worst children's fare, and one can blame Home Alone for a good part of why most live - action kids flicks are so devoid of anything truly worthwhile.

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.

Racing Stripes is a fairly typical kids flick, with underlying messages of practicing tolerance for those who are different, and even celebrating diversity.

B - movie sci - fi fans will revel in the references, and kids will enjoy the spectacular effects and funny creatures, but Monsters vs. Aliens, while a technical marvel, isn't much more than a pleasantly forgettable kid flick without its 3 - D.

While it isn't surprising that another family film would be very similar to the formula of those that came before, as nearly all of them are wholly unoriginal, what does surprise me is that I find Open Season to be a better film than the aforementioned kid flicks it (no pun intended) bears resemblance to.

But neither is truly happy in these predestined roles, prompting the sort of soul - searching grown - up lessons about following one's bliss and subverting expectations rarely seen in animated kids flicks.

On the surface The Boy could be another creepy kid flick but both Chapman and Macneill make it more than that, exploring the psychology of having a child grow up in such a depleted and socially undernourished situation.

It will be the only animated kids» film out The Weinstein Company's kid flick «Escape From Planet Earth» will be heading out of the box - office top ten this week during its sixth week in theaters.

I realise this is a kids flick but that kinda takes away any thrills or danger.

Yes this is indeed a kids flick and kids should enjoy it, but is there anything here for adults and gamers?

Now of course I realise this is essentially a kids flick so... don't take it seriously, check, but the whole thing just frustrates me.

Just a kids flick, filled with both a childish storyline and childish acting.

This observation is not to insist that every kid flick need contain gentle and positive lessons for little kids, but — to state something that should be obvious — children deserve rich, textured, intelligent films just like adults do, and it's always better to see a film with a modicum of thought and intelligence contained somewhere inside it.

But the result was far more than just another gun - crazy - kids flick.

Not quite a kids flick, but not entirely a grown - up movie, either, it sits in a precarious position whose discomfort counteracts the coziness of Scorsese's cinema - centric efforts.

Perhaps a young child won't care that he or she is seeing a wholly derivative formula animated kid flick, but for most adults in the audience, this is the cinematic equivalent of hammering an ice pick into your cranium, with the throbbing pain not ceasing until the final credits release you from cutesy, oversaturated sensory stimulation.