It's a kids' movie, aimed at kids and the people who buy their tickets. And on that level, it doesn't disappoint.. It's as sweet-natured a movie as you could expect about a 12-year-old learning to beat the crap out of his schoolmates.. If the movie's overlong (and it is, by about 20 minutes), it's long for a reason: It gives Dre time to grow.. The Karate Kid indulgently runs 2 hours, 20 minutes, at...
Winnie Puuh (2011) Streaming-
"Winnie the Pooh" may not be a movie that grown-ups seek out on their own, but it may make some of them jealous of the 4-year-olds who are making the noble bear's acquaintance for the first time.. This is indeed good old Pooh, nothing to fear. No space robots or serial killers have been added to the cast.. It's a pleasure to sink into an animated family movie from Disney that radiates charm with a...
Madagascar 3: Flucht durch Europa (2012) Download Voll
This is that rare thing: a franchise that grows more winning with each instalment.. Cascading, colorful 3-D performance sequences are sufficiently dazzling that you'll forgive the bajillionth soundtrack sampling of "Firework.". Despite a script co-written by Noah Baumbach, "Madagascar 3" can't upgrade its own shtick, becoming a craven example of a fast-buck, no-fun family film.. It's silly, and it's...
Titan A.E. (2000) Download Film
Could end up being the space epic to reckon with.. CGI fairy dust, dippy tooth puns and a semi-amusing Billy Crystal cameo can't disguise the fact that this sugary distraction is as hollow as a cavity.. The film is an industrial design marvel full of impressionistic, painterly backdrops and cool CGI effects.. One of those children's movies that is made for especially dim or easily fooled children.....
Schwesterherzen - Ramonas wilde Welt (2010) Streaming-
The Spy Next Door makes The Pacifier look like Citizen Kane.. Besson is a pro when it comes to action movies, but this part live, part animation effort is a mess, highlighted by creepy animation, derivative plot points and a child star who speaks way too fast.. An odd imp of a movie, Arthur and the Invisibles may actually be filled with a bit too much invention for the average kid.. . There are too...
Toy Story 3 (2010) Streaming-
The 'Toy Story' films are deservedly seen as the gold standard for computer-generated animation.... Beautiful to look at, but where's its heart?. The Golden Compass is a blatant attempt to duplicate the success of the Harry Potter franchise. The only thing missing is richly imagined characters, a comprehensible story line, good acting, and satisfying special effects.. The film is sweet. Its observations...
Thunderbirds (2004) Beobachten Film
A feeble Spy Kids imitation.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. . Aside from possibly launching a Ben Kingsley line of cosmetics, Thunderbirds seems destined to leave no lasting mark.. The film conceals...
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Der Grinch (2000) Voll Streaming
You can tell the script is short on punch lines by how often it resorts to poop and fart jokes, the last refuge of the desperate gag writer.. If you have little moviegoers around for the holidays, you should still make the trip to Whovillie.. Not the most gripping narrative, but the frenetic pace and nonstop gags will please young fans.. At its center, it has Carrey, whose nasty, catty Grinch is a...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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.....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sinbad - Der Herr der sieben Meere (2003) Online-Streaming-
Sinbad is rich with ideas and images.. Business-as-usual movie that isn't trying to make anything more than a medium-size splash.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. The effects are competent, the action has exciting moments and the story is interesting enough, but the parts don't add up to a compelling sum.. This is the single...
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...
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Familie,
Fantasy,
Science Fiction
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,...