Alvin und die Chipmunks - Der Film (2007) Streaming-

Young viewers will enjoy the slapstick, while parents will relate to Lee's amiable frustration as the trio's surrogate dad.. . The museum sparkles, but the movie is awfully dull.. The result is pretty much a free-form traffic jam in which everyone fights everyone else.. Azaria pretty much steals the show.. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian seems to go on for several days and nights, though in fact it lasts just 105 minutes. I checked my watch. A lot.. Oh, come on. Do you really care...

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SpongeBob Schwammkopf - Schwamm aus dem Wasser (2015) Voll Streaming

The spirit of the series remains true: cheerfully random jokes, blink-and-you'll-miss-them references and, above all, a silly, stubbornly sentimental streak that only the crabbiest cynic could dismiss.. ... an aimless and riotous mess.. Maybe we shouldn't have expected too much from "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.". The story is just a pretext for sustained, rapid-fire gags, many of them hysterical, that range from movie parodies to Gary Larson-worthy flights of cartoon weirdness.. Ev...

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Der SpongeBob Schwammkopf Film (2004) Beobachten Film

Sandler's laziness, sloppiness, and cynical pandering are all over Bedtime Stories, and it turns what's intended to be a graceful intersection of fairytale whimsy and real-world slapstick into an ugly, head-on collision.. Almost every note in this insipid comedy is strident or false.. . Those other Adam Sandler comedies? Turns out they were the grown-up efforts.. The ratio of hit to miss leans slightly on the plus side.. Judged as a piece of family entertainment, it's too haphazard and poorly pa...

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Arrietty - Die wundersame Welt der Borger (2010) Streaming-

With its lush colors, imaginative view of ordinary objects and meticulously crafted miniature civilization, it transports viewers to an enchanting alternate storybook reality.. Icky and incompetent (special effects aside) in equal parts, this groaner makes 1994's The Mask look like something you'd study in a film graduate course at NYU.. The visual details are inventive, and the animation - particularly the colors - is lovely.. Unnecessary but not entirely unpleasant.. It's astonishing how dull ...

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Bis in alle Ewigkeit (2002) Streaming-

The movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value.. Any movie that signals the menace of a potential lynching by zooming its camera through the loop of a gallows noose cannot claim subtlety, but director Jay Russell never lets the swirling emotions of Tuck become too drippy.. . Harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research.. Its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters, but the story is too steeped in fairy tale...

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Shrek der Dritte (2007) Film Abspielen

Don't arrive late, children, because what little energy exists gets expended early on.. . The world of the fanciful fable looks particularly vibrant this time with its signature blend of realism and fantasy. It is a pleasure to watch these fairy tale folk be themselves -- yet again.. This is a very skillfully made corporate product, but I wonder who, exactly, will be fully satisfied.. What the characters and satirical situations may lack this time out in a certain fresh vitality, they more than ...

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Zathura - Ein Abenteuer im Weltraum (2005) Voll Streaming

Zathura serves up kid-friendly sci-fi thrills, along with a little nostalgia for grownups. Its low-tech special effects are a refreshing departure from the CG norm.. Zathura can be enjoyed solely as a sci-fi adventure. But it also sneaks in a couple of messages for those receptive to them.. One of the worst comedies ever.. The action sequences are phony-looking; the dialogue sounds largely improvised on the fly; the laughs are few and far between; and the acting ... is, to put it kindly, wooden....

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