Family Rated PG
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“The mock outrage and dry sarcasm of Seinfeld’s comic persona defines the movie’s hero, a worker bee with a high-pitched, often cracking whine.
Family Rated G
“An almost primeval evocation of childhood fears and desires…”
A labored attempt to cash in on the legacy of 1979’s classic children’s film The Black Stallion, this Imax feature falls short even in visual terms. In what amounts to a prequel, a young girl (Biana G. Tamimi) in 1947 North Africa befriends a black colt and enters it into a prestigious local race. In
The computer whizzes at Disney and Pixar Animation Studios don’t take many risks with this sequel, exploring the same themes and – for the most part – the same characters that enlivened the first film. Still, running in place never has seemed so witty, touching and visually engaging as it does in Toy Story 2.
“…a giddy, kiddie inversion of time and space.”
Walt Disney Pictures’ remake of its questionable 1959 “classic” features an alarming number of serious actors trying to keep a straight face: Danny Glover, Kristin Davis, Philip Baker Hall and Robert Downey Jr., the latter of whom delightfully, repeatedly fails. And then there is star Tim Allen as a family man who turns into a
This often beguiling piece of computer animation could nonetheless benefit from a gentler touch. The movie centers around a spooky house that literally eats children on Halloween, but it’s not the ingeniously animated house that the filmmakers overdose on. Instead, the throwaway details are where the picture feels too flippant, too coarse, too adult: a
Vastly underrated by critics who took Disney’s technical mastery for granted, Dinosaur is a visually astonishing computer-animated epic that also works as a beautiful parable. After a cataclysmic asteroid shower, an iguanodon sticks up for the stragglers in his wandering herd when the leader wants to leave them behind to die. Behind the visual flash,
This Pixar production depicts a human-free racing world where even the stands are filled with four-wheelers. The movie’s moral imperative is to teach a hotshot rookie (Owen Wilson) a lesson in humility via an unplanned detour in the tiny desert town of Radiator Springs, but the picture’s true value is visual. Limited in terms of
