Der Schatzplanet (2002) Beobachten Film

Treasure Planet doesn't have the charm of Disney's last homegrown release, Lilo & Stitch, or the dazzling artistry of Spirited Away. But it's a capable and diverting holiday season adventure for a family audience.. Has its moments, but it's pretty far from a treasure.. It's laced with literate humor, and the directors cite N.C. Wyeth's illustrations for the 1911 Scribner's edition of Treasure Island as the inspiration for their marvelously detailed fantasy world.. I think kids will find it reall...

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Planes (2013) Film-Streaming

"Cars," with planes. And some cars. And a truck or two.. [It] isn't as giddily entertaining as its predecessor but much of the charm remains, making this an ideal destination for a family excursion.. This film is 100 percent devoid of surprises. It's the story of an underestimated underdog that's like every other kid-friendly, life-coachy story about an underestimated underdog.. The songs are infectious, but the rest (despite turns by Tina Fey and Ty Burrell) lacks some of the gang's usual feel-...

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Cars 2 (2011) Online-Streaming-

...by Pixar's outrageous standards of Oscar shoo-in virtuosity, this sequel is a disappointment at best.. The law of averages has finally caught up with the most remarkable studio in modern movie history, the dream factory that lived up to Buzz Lightyear's joyous cry of "To infinity and beyond." This frenzied sequel seldom gets beyond mediocrity.. We've come to expect perfection from Pixar, mostly because Pixar expects perfection from itself.. Like its predecessors, a tediously cartoonish candy-...

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Omoide no Marnie (2014) Film Abspielen

The magic of the film lies not in the mysterious spring but in the richness of its performances.. While not a masterpiece, it is beautiful, nonetheless.. Herge's was an art of subtraction - of doing more with less - but that seems to have eluded Spielberg and Jackson.. Ineptly crunched film version of Natalie Babbitt's acclaimed 1975 children's book.. If you feel any kinship with the disaffected, "When Marnie Was There" has much to tell you.. The relentless pace is a big part of the fun. Who eve...

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Frankenweenie (2012) Voll Streaming

For adults, it's like being hit over the head with a mallet every 10 seconds for 90 minutes. Two days later, I still had a headache.. . While "Frankenweenie" is fun, it is not nearly strange or original enough to join the undead, monstrous ranks of the classics it adores.. Hollywood continues its tired milking of old television properties with Alvin and the Chipmunks, a slick updating of the musical-cartoon franchise.. This is a family comedy that will entertain the kids and amuse the grown-ups....

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Harry Potter und die Heiligtümer des Todes - Teil 1 (2010) Beobachten Film

Menacing and meditative, Hallows is arguably the best installment of the planned eight-film franchise, though audiences who haven't kept up with previous chapters will be hopelessly lost.. There's plenty of humor, plenty of magic and even a bit of romantic stress, although there's also quite a bit of mulling and standing about.. The trouble with Harry, as becomes clear from this seventh and penultimate installment, is not that we have lost the plot -- the film is as tangled and as corkscrewed as...

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Jagdfieber (2006) Streaming-

The film wraps mindless cartoon violence and a few fart jokes around life lessons about friendship and responsibility. Kids should like it; parents won't mind it.. [A] summer-weight but winsome basketball fantasy.. This is a lot of fun and Lil' Bow Wow, now calling himself Bow Wow, is very charming.. One of the biggest surprises in this first full-length film from Sony Pictures Animation is how funny Ashton Kutcher is as Elliot.. For an inaugural effort, Open Season ain't bad, but the studio sho...

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Operation Nussknacker (2014) Film Abspielen

The small-town setting of a half-century ago is beautifully animated by director Peter Lepenotis and his team, and there are some nicely staged old-school action sequences.. Someone spent a lot of time making the architecture and production design match the era. Grandparents getting dragged to "The Nut Job" will be appreciative.. Pretty much everything in this South Korean co-production is slightly undercooked, lacking the same degree of sprightly wit or dramatic punch regularly found in A-list ...

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Die Abenteuer von Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) Download Film

Fifty years ago, animated entertainment was a lot quieter. But that was my "Mr. Peabody & Sherman." This is someone else's. And it should give them, and even a few open-minded parents, almost just as much giggly fun.. Mr. Peabody & Sherman is slight, but it's exceedingly charming, making good use of a talented voice cast that includes Stephen Colbert, Leslie Mann, Mel Brooks as Freud, and Stanley Tucci as Leonardo Da Vinci.. Happily, the fallout results in Peabody, Sherman, and Penny all getting...

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Turbo - Kleine Schnecke, großer Traum (2013) Online-Streaming-

It's only disguised as fun.. There are many more delighted 'Ewwws' than too-easy 'Awws' in this charming, if a tad cynical, feature from the creators of Coraline and ParaNorman.. You know we're in serious trouble when even old pros such as Michael Caine and Luis Guzman can't do anything with the uninspired and unfunny script.. Sincerely tries to pay homage to the likes of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson but is too contaminated by today's tame sensibilities to make it fly.. [A] totally off...

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Gullivers Reisen - Da kommt was Großes auf uns zu (2010) Beobachten Film

The filmmakers have said they are already dreaming up a sequel. They needn't hurry. Whatever treasures these pirates have are well buried.. To paraphrase a certain man with a certain luxuriant beard, it's only impossible to enjoy if you stop to think about it.. A migraine inducement that you'd think Jack Black had gotten out of his system years ago.. Gulliver's Travels strips the source material down to its recognizable parts and then builds something completely new out of them. Unfortunately, t...

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Ice Age (2002) Online-Streaming-

Real Ice Ages were no jokes. They lasted about 100,000 years and froze most life on the planet. But as long as Leguizamo's Sid and Wedge's Scrat are on screen, this one warms you with laughter.. From the squirrel's mad, droopy eyes, to the rumba rhythms of Manny's rear end, to the way Diego settles into sleep like a tabby, these creatures are alive enough to love, and lament.. A minor delight but a delight just the same .... It's clever enough to amuse adults, yet sufficiently kid-friendly to de...

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The Legend of Longwood (2014) Beobachten Film

Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Thank you for giving information about the film. this a good movie to be watched for sure.. The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. Every minute of this action packed movie is amazing. This is the single best movie I have ever seen. All of the actors do great jobs at their roles from the villains to the side characters they all give convincing performances.. Music perfec...

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Wenn Träume fliegen lernen (2004) Online-Streaming-

It's the sort of movie I admire more in retrospect than I did while watching it.. Watchable and passably engaging.. Very Sad Things prompt Very Big Questions, and this movie is smart enough to avoid Very Easy Answers.. For all that Bridge to Terabithia does to encourage children to exercise their imaginations and pursue the arts, the movie's producers give only glimpses of the wonderful creatures and magical kingdom dreamed up by two children.. It's a reminder that a sense of play is at the hear...

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Ice Age 2 - Jetzt taut's (2006) Online-Streaming-

On the short list of sequels superior to the originals -- alphabetically between The Godfather, Part II and Toy Story 2 -- you may enter Ice Age: The Meltdown.. A good-natured, gag-filled sequel to the hit animated movie about animals trying to evade extinction while trading one-liners.. You'll take your kids, yes. But don't be surprised if this one leaves them cold as you-know-what.. Ice Age: The Meltdown, a follow-up to the 2002 animated prehistoric hit, is the rare sequel that is better than ...

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Eine zauberhafte Nanny (2005) Voll Streaming

Unfunny, sappy and massively predictable.. In RV, the downwardly spiraling career trajectories of Robin Williams and director Barry Sonnenfeld intertwine like the ropes of a tangled parachute.. ...Pleasing but ultimately unsatisfying.. Nanny McPhee isn't a bad film, just a disappointing one.. Nanny McPhee is clever enough, but it never feels like it's hitting quite the right notes.. A workmanlike family comedy with enough pratfalls and poo jokes for tykes and enough sentimentality for parents.. ...

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Yogi Bär (2010) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. I really like this movie. thank you. You've seen this movie before, when it was called Alvin and the Chipmunks, but the filmmakers are hoping that your kids don't remember.. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. The film conceals as much as it revea...

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Tintenherz (2008) Voll Streaming

Miyazaki works marvels. Sit back and behold.. Much of this comes across as a labor of love, with a classy cast frolicking in Iain Softley's whimsical direction of a lushly imagined adaptation by David Lindsay-Abaire.. Inkheart illustrates an obvious problem with making a movie about the joys of reading when the movie made is labored and sludgy looking: Why bother seeing it if you can stay home and read a book instead?. The overqualified cast gives its all, but logical lapses and sober-sided dire...

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Spy Daddy (2010) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

An odd imp of a movie, Arthur and the Invisibles may actually be filled with a bit too much invention for the average kid.. The Spy Next Door follows Brian Levant's long track record of pandering, PG-rated family comedies that look like bad TV (and sometimes are adapted from it).... . . There are too many things out of whack here, and too many unanswered questions.. Too eccentric for kids, too silly for everyone else, it floats in a Neverland of breathtaking visuals in service of a story that pi...

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A World Beyond (2015) Film-Streaming

Tomorrowland is a highly original, occasionally even visionary piece of sci-fi filmmaking, but that doesn't necessarily make it a good movie.. Tartakovsky hasn't created the sort of sequel that eclipses the original, but then again the original wasn't exactly "Toy Story" or "How to Train Your Dragon.". Exhilarating on every level.. Hotel Transylvania 2 is the greatest movie Adam Sandler and Kevin James have ever made together. I believe this is called "damning with faint praise.". Eye-popping an...

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