Will Ferrell brings his usual dim-bulb zaniness to this holiday comedy about a human orphan (Ferrell) raised by Santa’s helpers, but most of the laughs come from easy fish-out-of-water humor. This should have been much better considering the star and the premise.

The filmmakers behind Saving Shiloh, the third movie to be adapted from Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s series of children’s novels, must think kids are a pretty slow lot, considering the way they repeatedly hammer home the moral of the story. The picture has more respect for the intelligence of the title dog than for its audience.

I’m glad it is easy to approve of Hoot, for disapproving of the movie would mean disapproving of a host of good-natured things, including cute owls and the cuter kids who try to save them. Adapted from the Carl Hiaasen novel, Hoot follows a budding teen (Logan Lerman) whose family has just moved from Montana

In true Pixar fashion, Finding Nemo is at once a rousing adventure guaranteed to keep kids pinned in their seats, a gorgeously detailed display of computer animation and a comedy with more laughs per minute than your average live-action farce. Albert Brooks provides the voice of an overprotective clown fish in search of his lost