Sentences with phrase «kids the film does»

Yes, there is a dumb villain subplot, but what kids film doesn't have that nowadays?

The responsible one with the job in rundown Venice Beach circa the early -»70s, he «ain't no pirate,» says surf shop owner Skip Engblom (Heath Ledger, doing Val Kilmer on lots of ganja), who decides mysteriously one day to sponsor a competitive skateboard team with ringers Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk) and Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch) as well as a bunch of other kids the film doesn't have time for.

Not exact matches

Not only does the feature have a good deal of franchise history behind it, but it also has the same advantage that all family films have, in that kids going to see the film will be dragging along their parents, ensuring extra ticket sales.

He remarked that whenever he sees heart - rending scenes of famine victims he wonders, «How come the film crew didn't just give the kid a sandwich?

I don't like hearing my own voice and I had an eye infection when we filmed this but there are lots of cute kids in the footage and the topic is very close to my heart.

Man, just use a book or a film to show your kids you were in it — you don't need no medal.

For those of you that don't know what Catfish is, it's a documentary that was made in 2010 about a young kid who falls in love with a girl over Facebook while his brother and friend film it.

«What he did in the film world was unbelievable and films I watched growing up my kids now watch and they are still greats.

Along with volcanos, magic milk, and a lava lamp, film canister rockets are a must do science experiment for kids of all ages.

Along with volcanos, magic milk, and a lava lamp, film canister rockets are a must do science experiment for kids

organise a special Dads and Kids day at the weekend (it doesn't have to be expensive, you can just go to the park, go on a bike ride, have a film night — just doing something together is good)

I've had some really good conversations with my kids during or after a film we see together, especially if it has to do with identity or secrets or values.

You can even download the Props in a Box Movie Maker App so you can film a movie of your kids performances with the ability to do different titles, music and special effects.

The request is nothing new: It seems there's always someone crying out against film students or East Asian studies majors, wondering why these damn kids don't just study petroleum chemistry.

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«Secondly, don't believe everything that you read about movie stars because some of the women who've had kids in their late 40s, such as film stars, have used donor eggs, but they don't tell you that in the article because it's their own private business,» warns Prof Ledger.

I mean, sure, I had them as a kid and I had an emergency pair for shoveling or playing in the snow, but an actual pair that didn't look like they came out of a bad 1990s film about ski school?

I do remember though, that for a brief period of time when I was a kid I wanted to make trailers for films!»

The film's soul, however, belongs to Patinkin, a great actor who even in his most stubborn scenes never fails to instill Saul with the best intentions; a dad just looking to do right by his kids with the only handbook available to him.

Kids will love it as its the rare family film that doesn't pander to them.

A junior - league rip - off of Rocky (and countless other boxing films), the movie doesn't just borrow from Stallone's proto - Reaganite blockbuster — it all but samples it, sprinkling in bits and pieces from most of the other go - for - it sagas (The Karate Kid, An Officer and a Gentleman) that Rocky made possible.

On the other hand, I really enjoyed seeing the odd, feral - looking beauty Mireille Enos (of TV's «The Killing») as Pitt's on - screen wife; I wish she had more to do in the film than hunker onboard an aircraft carrier with their kids, hoping the zombies won't learn how to swim.

She, the filmmakers, and maybe even a few of the kids in the audience have seen it all before — the comic book, the film based on the comic book, the winking that certain movies based on comic books start to do after a few sequels.

The flash - forward right at the end of the film, when Harry, Ron and Hermione are middle - aged parents waving off their kids at King's Cross, actually affected me more than anything they did in the previous seven films.

A lot of current directors try to recapture that old Amblin» Entertainment vibe in their attempts at making a family film, but Waititi has done it because he's made the perfect kids movie by simply not making it for kids.

The really funny thing about this film is that as the kids, Laurel and Hardy don't behave much differently as they generally do as adults.

There was a time when all you needed for a family film was a cute kid, a rambunctious animal and a few exasperated adult actors who didn't mind playing second — make that third — fiddle.

The film does clearly want to state that the kids need help, as cases of suicide and violence are common and cleverly chosen as a way to enforce the view of the institution and not theirs of the way that they are treated and how much they need to be rid of their sickness.

I believe that if this didn't have any big stars and the kids were unfunny, this film would have definitely flopped, but overall it is easily enjoyable.

Now, at the time, Disney made safe films for kids to not have to think too hard about, and while «The Jungle Book» (1967) does play it safe in some regards, the harsh fight sequences and undertones of race really does come through for older viewers and may have kids hiding their eyes every once in a while.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

I still love this film to this day and I recommend it to anyone with kids or to someone who wants to watch a great story that doesn't care if it is in the form of a 60's Disney cartoon.

Naming names and letting people talk, this should be seen, and Kirby Dick (no kidding, that's the director) is a terrific filmmaker (THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED, if you haven't seen it, please do - right now) and he obviously feels passionately about this.

Why this is listed in kids» films I do not know.

as a kid i grew up with transformers for toys, but didn't watch the actual show (aside from beast wars) until last year, so i wouldn't consider myself a fan boy, but when a tv show based around toys from the 80's has better dialog, humor, character development, and plot than a high budget Hollywood film, you know something is wrong with the film industry.

There are moments of clear absurdity when the group of guys crafted on a Simon Cowell talent show insist that they can always just be themselves, for instance and the film does lay on the «wacky kids» and «our fans are so important» gloss with marketing - ploy thickness.

When the teenagers take a late - night walk around the deserted environs, as kids are prone to do in slasher films, they enter an abandoned trailer and discover a dead body.

Later in the film, Christian has an «it could have been me» moment about a fellow group - home kid who didn't turn out as good -LRB-?)

If you didn't want kids before, you won't want kids after seeing this film - but if you're a horny kid yourself?

Now going by written dialogue in the film Diana «Gets very excited by Hospitals», «I'm a princess and I get what I want», and wonders if «Did they publish the pictures of the kids with all their arms and legs blown off».

At no point does anyone in the film even vaguely resemble an actual 21st - century teenager; when these kids text each other, it comes across like science fiction.

If the banishment of dancing is pushing the kids toward violent behaviour, the film doesn't do an effective job of making the connection.

Much like the kids in this movie who come of age, so too does Robert Kirbyson's skill as a writer - director in his debut film Snowmen.

His mother sends the kid off from the slums of Baltimore to live with her estranged parents, the Rev. and Mrs, Cobbs (played by Oscar winning actor Forest Whitaker, and Oscar nominated best supporting actress Angela Bassett both of whom for their work in films «The Last King of Scotland», and «What's Love Got To Do With It?»)

The drab feel to this kids film was ballsy and I do not think it worked very well.

This movie does not have the innovation that the other films do and it is really just a kids movie.

Maybe very young kids don't care about subtext in films like this, but I'm not writing for kids and this film is pitched at a broad audience.

As a standalone film, The Phantom Menace probably won't appeal to kids raised on rapid editing and epic explosions, nor does it work as an introduction to the Star Wars universe.

«Persepolis» pulls off something that's not easy for any film, even a live - action one, to do: It gives us a sense of how a kids» - eye view of the world — particularly the way kids are capable of grasping the idea of injustice, even when more delicate political arguments are beyond their reach — can emerge and grow into an adult sensibility.