Sentences with phrase «of kid flick»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Flicking away mosquitoes with a wave of a hand, listening to the creak of a kid pumping back and forth on a swing set all alone, overhearing the drama of some poor folks down the way have a shouting match (He my baby!

But the «kid» everyone was buzzing about was Carreño - Busta's opponent, 18 - year - old Denis Shapovalov (who, fortunately for everyone with pronunciation struggles, goes by Shapo) and instead of cheering on the seeded favorite the crowd was hanging on every point the then - 69th - ranked Shapo played — every flick of his wrist or youthful wince at a wasted opportunity.

The kids try to mimmick the dribbles, turns, twists, flicks of the great players but the challenge is not teaching them these skills but when to use them — when to make the pass or when take on a player.

He will forever remind me of the metal kids in high school who were really cool with me when we were one - on - one together, walking home or something, but who would flick their lit cigarette butts at me when they were with their friends.

Filipe is the one performing rainbow flicks on Neymar at Brazil training, a move which would surely earn him the label of «tryhard» from kids these days.

You know, the kind of kid that eats Chipotle too often, drinks unhealthy amounts of Diet Coke, gets giggly and jumps on the bed when excited, could go to Chuck - E-Cheese every weekend and play Ski - Ball till she drops, and gets a huge kick out of feel - good Disney flicks.

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.

The tweaking of genres — the prison - escape flick in Chicken Run; monster horror in Were - Rabbit — in ways that made fun of cinematic tropes while also rapturous embracing them has elevated Park's work way above the standard notion of «it's a cartoon, it's just for kids.»

Paramount's grumpy - green - ogre franchise is the epitome of the hand - hold movie: family flicks that serve up action, tomfoolery and life - lessons for the kids, nonstop pop - culture in - jokes for the adults, and fart jokes for the whole family.

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

In one of those plot loopholes perfect for fables and kid - flicks, Miguel steals a guitar from the de la Cruz mausoleum, which leaves him cursed.

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.

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.

«Die Mommie Die» (Sundance Films) This campy homage to»60s Ross Hunter flicks features the writer - actor Charles Busch («Irma Vep») as Angela, a pop diva mixed up in a murder - whodunit with a tennis pro, a gigolo, the maid, an actor and a couple of screwed - up kids.

Phyllis Smith turns a one - dimensional and dithering marshmallow into an interesting study in the conflict between desire and convention, Henry Michael Higgins, is the dolphin - obsessed but otherwise disengaged principal, and they are supported by the usual gaggle of kids found in flicks set in a middle school, played by actors who avoid cutesiness and given a script that sets them up perfectly for the bald truth Elizabeth dumps on them with matter - of - fact disengagement in place of the usual cheery esteem - boost called for by curriculum and compassion.

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.

What You Need To Know: Pixar are going through a rough patch at the moment (even if we contest that «Brave» was undervalued by many, the critical consensus was that it was something of a miss), and we're not sure that their third sequel in four years is necessarily going to be the way out of it (what is the audience for a CGI animated kids flick take on «Animal House,» exactly?).

Captain Underpants: The Epic First Movie Rated PG for mild rude humor throughout Rotten Tomatoes Score: 87 % In spite of great reviews from both critics and audiences, as well as a large base of fans of their kids graphic novels, this animated superhero flick landed with a relative thud in theaters.

This week's home video releases include a computer - animated kids» flick, a horror movie with a fishy twist and an award - winning drama that ranked among the best theatrical releases of 2010.

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.

I saw this charming coming - of - age flick at Sundance, with an all - grown - up (or at least high school age) Freddie Highmore, the kid from Finding Neverland, remember him?

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The studio's second goal is to convince every little kid that sees this in front of «Hotel Transylvania 2» that this is a must - see flick next summer.

It's the lesson of The Incredibles, one of the bravest, most subversive films the year — and it seems to be the lesson of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as well until the picture caves in to kid - flick conventions and worse.

«Safe Haven» is a species of Gothic chick flick: Running - from - danger heroine (Julianne Hough) finds friendly anonymity — and a hunky widower (Josh Duhamel) with two cute kids — in a sleepy North Carolina town.

While this eagerly - anticipated cautionary tale of Orwellian dimensions does address a litany of timely themes ranging from greed to loyalty to exploitation to corruption, it nevertheless remains, at heart, a high attrition - rate, splatter flick designed to satiate the bloodlust of kids weaned on gory computer games.

What we've got here is your standard grade horror flick in the vein of Scream and Urban Legend, revolving around a mysterious killer devising a supposed revenge plot — a geeky kid who got a Carrie pulled on him in 6th grade.

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.

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.

Hitting the screens this week... Alpha and Omega Devil Easy A The Town click here for The Scorecard Review's complete Film Review Database This weekend offers a bunch of new flicks for audiences, ranging from horror to kid - friendly.

by Walter Chaw Surprisingly, perhaps shockingly, Robots isn't terrible, even though it's a product of the same chowderheads behind Ice Age and even though it's your basic ramshackle kid's flick / self - esteem trope (complete with closing musical number) upon which the Shrek franchise has founded a scatological empire.

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..

Today at Fantastic Fest I saw kids» movie «Buratino: Son of Pinocchio,» the British dark comedy «Down Terrace,» Terry Gilliam's long - awaited «The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus,» action sequel «District 13 Ultimatum,» and horror flick «The Children.»

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.

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.

I have a feeling in the near future, we will be telling our kids about how back in the day this flick was transcendent, at the forefront of filmmaking.

Inspired by the»50s Batman comics of Dick Sprang, the third in the initial wave of Bat - flicks is a great movie for kids and adults at the time who were yearning for an Adam West - style return to the Caped Crusader.

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.

You can say that the fact that all the girl pigeons are portrayed as witless bimbos is a satire of»40s - era attitudes and propaganda flicks, but kids won't read it as satire and instead think it reflects contemporary values.

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.

Where this charming and gorgeously animated flick — which kids of all ages, including the grownup ones, will love — goes from there is into a realm that encompasses both enrapturing silliness and pretty profound wisdom, for a kiddie flick.

In a film full of crude and sexual humor, Ashley Tisdale gets the starring nod in what is quite a racy role for a PG - 13 flick, which, in the same year that the Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens vehicle, Spring Breakers, gets a release, proves that parents might be strongly cautioned from allowing their impressionable kids to these movies just because they feature some of their favorite kid - show stars.

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.

Rodriguez's career is one of the most prominent and curious dichotomies in Hollywood, as he manages to make both super violent action flicks (Machete, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) and family adventures (the Spy Kids series), employing several of the same actors in both.

The guys discuss everything from their most anticipated releases, to Donald Trump's opposition to the all - women remake of Ghostbusters, to Woody Allen's movie - naming strategy, to a certain fish - finding flick that kids and adults won't want to miss.