Spirit - Der Wilde Mustang (2002) Beobachten Film

Adams' hoarse anthems become a betrayal of this horse opera's true potential; fortunately, there is enough fine achievement here to make the film worth seeing.. A cartoon that's truly cinematic in scope, and a story that's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big, four-legged herbivore.. Rather exciting, rendered in a bright sunset palette and a mixture of expressive, boldly drawn traditional animation and fluid computer-generated imagery.. An exciting and exquisitely rende...

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Die Piraten - Ein Haufen merkwürdiger Typen (2012) Online-Streaming-

That the film happens to be in 3-D, with digitized settings and backgrounds, doesn't detract from the timeworn charm of watching blob-like characters lurch erratically through harebrained comic pratfalls.. The action is beautifully staged, delightful, and exciting.. The movie looks meticulously crafted, of course, and is consistently, drily amusing.. A curiosity cabinet of visual pleasures but so breezy and lightly funny that you may not realize at first how good it is. (You're too busy grinning...

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The Lego Movie (2014) Film-Streaming

Ben Stiller and crew go for the easy laughs, spackling the cracks in their armor with a cavalcade of marquee-name cameos and one dizzying action scene after another.. I stopped laughing because after 20 minutes, I'd had enough. The conceit gets stale fast.. The best part is what the movie has to say about conformity -- following the instructions on the box -- versus creativity, i.e. life as a jumble, an inspired improvisation, a joyous hodgepodge.. Ben Stiller, Steve Coogan, Owen Wilson, Ricky G...

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Chicken Run - Hennen rennen (2000) Streaming-

The level of invention on display, from the vividly detailed models and figurines to the gallery of memorable supporting characters, is astonishing at any length.. It'd be churlish to carp about this triumph of craftsmanlike technique.. . Were Larry and Andy Wachowski just really, really lucky when they made The Matrix?. I love the look and the style and the spirit of this film.. More than the story of the Racer family, Speed Racer is the visual autobiography of the Wachowskis and their pit crew...

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Home - Ein smektakulärer Trip (2015) Download Film

A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. Tim Johnson ( Antz) has capitalized on DreamWorks' proprietary animation platform, Apollo to create a rich, intricate setting...But the technology doesn't save the film from falling flat on other levels.. The combination of Home's layered message, fun score, and clever comedy make it a colorful choice for moviegoers of ...

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Nachts im Museum (2006) Online-Streaming-

Rarely has so much production value yielded so little in terms of audience engagement.. ... an aimless and riotous mess.. . The special effects are far more inspired than the comedy in Night at the Museum, which strands several generations of performers in a highly derivative script and hackneyed direction.. The movie, despite some lavish special effects, feels perfunctory and generic. Kids may well enjoy it (the 7-year-old with me giggled all the way through); adults may squirm.. What a dull, n...

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Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch (2005) Beobachten Film

Whenever it hits its stride, it's a well-acted, vividly executed, full-speed-ahead special-effects extravaganza that puts as much bang as possible into every remaining scene.. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. Music perfectly fits w...

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Gregs Tagebuch 2 - Gibt's Probleme? (2011) Online-Streaming-

A film about as funny as a seeping wound.. A brisk, reverent, and subtly different sequel.. This follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 Disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric Peter.. Preceded by a 1957 Pluto short, Never Land is a warmly nostalgic throwback.. For the most part this is a collection of set pieces that movies have served up many, many times before.. They've wimped out.. There follows a fusillade of farts, dud sight gags and inconsequential butt jokes.. No one but a c...

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Shrek - Der tollkühne Held (2001) Film Abspielen

Tangled is lovely to look at, but if you're not a pre-teen girl, you may be distracted by the split ends.. The script, instead of being what we tolerate in order to savor the visuals, is a delight all by itself.. A teeter-totter between O.K. and Meh.. Banal, shallow and markedly cynical.. This romantic fantasy complicates the roles of beauty and beast, making it hard to guess what form a sensitive resolution will take.. In an era when much on film seems old, Shrek seems new and fresh and clever....

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Ein Königreich für ein Lama (2000) Online-Streaming-

Duff plays off her Lizzie Maguire persona as a cute but unassuming girl, but also conveys soulfulness and earnest longing.. The first Disney animated movie since The Little Mermaid that amounts to nothing more than a throwaway.. The Prince is a wet rag, the slapstick stepsisters are dull and even the fretful Sam seems colorless.. Let me get quickly to the word that best describes this movie. It is horrible.. Mean Girls it's not; a plastic butter knife has more edge. But sometimes it's nice to kn...

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Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz (2009) Streaming-

It really helps in these situations to have first-rate actors.. Harry is better than ever, a triumph of visual wonder and emotional storytelling.. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. This is the darkest, saddest, most sophisticated Harry Potter film yet.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT mov...

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Die Maske 2 - Die nächste Generation (2005) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

No doubt extensive market research shows that there's an audience out there for movies like Son Of The Mask, but it's too depressing to speculate who that might be.. What we basically have here is a license for the filmmakers to do whatever they want to do with the special effects, while the plot, like Wile E. Coyote, keeps running into the wall.. If he keeps working hard and honing his craft, Jamie Kennedy may one day achieve his goal of becoming a second-rate Jim Carrey.. It's all very juvenil...

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Die Chroniken von Narnia: Prinz Kaspian von Narnia (2008) Film-Streaming

It's nice that the film brings some real-world crunch to the story - ethnic characters whose presence make a social point ... and a clear message about the downside of a society where food is overabundant.. Sure, it's a big-budget spectacle. But it's also the kind of grandly old-fashioned entertainment we don't get enough of anymore.. 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' may not scale the artistic heights of a 'Finding Nemo' or 'Wall-E', but it's the most satisfying and original non-Pixar CG anim...

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Ella - Verflixt & zauberhaft (2004) Online-Streaming-

With bigger battles and scarier monsters than its predecessor, the new movie flaunts grander visual effects, and, with one notable exception, a dash more individuality than the initial installment.. Why oh why are these sequels always bigger and louder and longer and bad?. Determined to have their cake and eat it too, writer-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller first invite us to revel in ice cream mountains and nacho cheese fountains, then clobber us with ham-handed nutritional moralism.. Adams...

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Monsters vs Aliens (2009) Download Film

It's an affectionate, fairly funny riff on 1950s sci-fi movies, which often featured aliens, sometimes in the form of gelatinous glop, trying to take over Earth before earthlings, usually of the military variety, save the day.. This blandly conceived and executed attempt at a juve-style Indiana Jones with Jules Verne trappings recycles familiar adventure and cartoon devices with minimal wit and flair.. MvA isn't, and isn't pretending to be, as ambitious a project as Pixar's almost universally la...

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Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) Online-Streaming-

The sort of incoherent mess that invariably goes straight to video.. Features even more toddlers acting in a way only collectors of velvet paintings will consider irresistible.. The shtick is as stale and over-processed as expired Froot Loops, with references that were dated even when the original was released.. Whatever wit could be mined from the idea of breaking the code to baby talk was exhausted in the original Baby Geniuses five years ago.. That's the thing about children when it comes to ...

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Shrek 2 - Der tollkühne Held kehrt zurück (2004) Download Voll

Delivers more fun than there is slime in a green ogre's swamp.. A rare example of a sequel that's better than the original.. . 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.. 'Treasure Plane' starts with the clever idea of transforming the story into an old-fashioned space opera, and the animated visuals are handily up to the studio's best. Yet th...

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Rio 2 - Dschungelfieber (2014) Beobachten Film

Those who enjoyed the adventures of Blu and Jewel and company in the first Rio are going to find the sequel an equally pleasing diversion.. All in all, though, the movie feels at once too busy and too derivative. That's no easy feat, but it's also one sequel-makers probably shouldn't aspire to.. Wonderfully animated and well-voiced, "Rio 2" is nevertheless too much. Too much plot, too many issues, too many characters.. This movie, in fact, is all about conformity.. With so much going on, it's a ...

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Brendan und das Geheimnis von Kells (2009) Film-Streaming

I really like this movie. thank you. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Awesome as director this is the first time that they have been together again Since training day powerful movie go see it!!!. A beguiling kaleidoscopic indulgence for the eyes and soul.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. This movie is an epic ...

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Snow Dogs - Acht Helden auf vier Pfoten (2002) Streaming-

A miserable waste of a harebrained script fleshed out with mediocre performances by a flailing cast.. Lima ... hits all the obvious notes hard, and must be held to account for indulging so much hammy mugging from his cast.. . A generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set.. . It's particularly good at capturing that time of life when you simultaneously believe everything is possible and that each tiny misstep is the end of the world.. Gooding offers a despe...

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