Wreck It Ralph

Wreck It Ralph was the most celebrated animated film of 2012, though likely most of that praise comes from the simple fact that its about video games. Otherwise its a pretty regular family movie, nothing that will compete with the recent animated greats like Up or the Toy Story films. The arcade underworld works very […]

Brave

“I don’t speak bear.” Its hard for Pixar films these days to overcome the high expectations set on them by the company’s previous films. Pixar movies are not only visually beautiful and fun, but they usually have deeper themes which raise them up. WallE was about mankind’s responsibility to the earth, Up was about letting […]

The Adventures of Tintin

Spielberg’s first venture into animation is, well, a sight to see. He turns the Belgian comic character of Tintin into a full blown adventure film hero. This movie is a lot of fun and is also great to look at. Speilberg seems to be going back to his roots here, although working with a whole […]

Rango

This was an odd little movie, but that’s all a part of its charm. Rango is about a domestic chameleon who thinks he’s an actor, and when he ends up in the desert by accident, he pretends he;’s a gunslinger to fit in with the townsfolk. What we get after this is a rather interesting […]

Despicable Me

There has beena growing trend with animated films for the studios to make the films for both children and adults; films that pique the interest and natural excitement of kdis while still providing a sense of maturity in the story and lines which also makes it accomanying to older audiences.  This is not one of […]

How To Train Your Dragon

People are always talking about the Dreamworks/Pixar battle of animation and how Pixar dominates almost every year. Dreamworks usually loses the battle because they focus on fleeting adoration from the masses and fill their movies with pop culture references with short half-lives. Yet every once in a while (ex. Kung Fu Panda) where they come […]

A Christmas Carol

This is a hard movie to review. I watched it with a group of kids from grade 1 to grade 12 and doing so I can’t help but think that this movie didn’t really know what audience it wanted to go for. It seems like it was made for little kids, but then it gets […]

Fantastic Mr. Fox

So is Fantastic Mr. Fox fantastic? More the most part, yeah. I would probably describe it as enjoyable more than anything else. It was just really enjoyable. There’s quite a lot of comedy; not the laugh out loud kind, but the put a smile on your face the whole way through kind. The voice acting […]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Well, if I had to sum up the Clone Wars movie in one word it would probably be juvenile. Perhaps if I was a 12 year old kid again this would hold some appeal, but really the whole movie seemed silly to me, like I was watching a saturday morning cartoon (which I guess I essentially […]

Kung Fu Panda

Dreamworks’ animation department usually isn’t quite up to par with the Pixar releases on any given year.  However, after seeing Kung Fu Panda, I have to say I loved it! For one thing, the film looked amazing. The characters were full and vibrant, the settings were detailed yet with an epic scope, it was fantastic. […]