Family Rated PG
In honor of the annual, Halloween rerelease of the stop-motion classic, a review from the archives…
"…a less dreamlike and more manic take on E.T."
“Silly yet never quite satirical, it’s like Shrek without his teeth.
"John Michael Higgins is disturbingly shrunken a la Lord of the Rings. How does the Actors’ Union of Little People, if there is such a thing, feel about this?"
Family Rated G
“Hoffman is like the circus clown everyone avoids.
“I’ve found more nuance in the two-page Bible stories we read with our kids after breakfast.
“…an overstuffed yet uninspired pastiche of fantasy elements.
“Parents, load up on the No-Doz and get inoculated for multiple Bedazzler jokes.
Another well-meaning family drama that can’t quite make the leap from cloying to endearing, this New Zealand import details a young girl’s dream of meeting Queen Elizabeth II when she visits the islands in 1953. In its desperate attempt to be sweet and quirky, Her Majesty overplays just about everything. Sally Andrews, making her movie
“The adults in Underdog appear to be having a really good time, and that helps the adults in the audience have a fairly good one.
