Horton hört ein Hu! (2008) Beobachten Film

When Horton sticks to the sweet, funny spirit of its source, though, all's right with the worlds, big and little.. doesn't have the brisk economy of the original book, but the animated Horton feels nevertheless close to the sweet, quirky heart of Dr. Seuss.. Smurfs are the Barneys of the fantasy world.. This new Horton 'toon may be state of the art. But it's great virtue isn't the 3-D animation. It's the good Doctor, whose writing about Whos never goes out of style.. Compared with those mega-bud...

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Free Birds - Esst uns an einem anderen Tag (2013) Download Film

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.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. A forgettable - and occasionally borderline offensive - animated tale of turkeys trying to take back Thanksgiving.. A welcome foray into underexploited territory, conceptually at least.. Music perfectly fits with the movie,...

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Rambo (1982) Download Film

Few movies have captured the intoxicating effect of pop culture on kids better than Son of Rambow.. With apologies to Mr. Stallone, no one would ever argue First Blood was an essential part of any healthy childhood. But the ability to make-believe certainly is.. Milner and Poulter are a lot of fun to watch, a pair of first-timer naturals who don't reek of Dakota Fanning Young Actorliness.. Plenty happens, but little of it advances the action, until the finale, which is lovely, but would have bee...

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Der Lorax (2012) Download Film

This tale is filled with delightful characters and it's sugarcoated with vibrant animation and candy colors.. A parallel world of wonders, zestfully conceived and radiantly rendered, in which the great-hearted ogre tries his likeable best to avoid the parallel threats of kingship and parenthood.. Par for the course in blowout CGI adaptations, a great deal of detail and bustle is gained at the expense of charm-for all the miracles these armies of animators can achieve, they have yet to successful...

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Freiheit (2014) Streaming-

. Herbie is the kind of funny, frenetic family movie that really does offer something for everyone.. It's nice to see that Disney remembers its past, even if four decades of social change and global issues seem to have made no impact on it whatsoever.. The film leaves us with the impression that slaves' survival had more to do with sheer luck than dogged resilience.. All ends well, everyone gets what's coming to them, and any 9-year-old girl who does not stand on her seat cushion and cheer has r...

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WALL·E - Der Letzte räumt die Erde auf (2008) Streaming-

The power of WALL-E as a character, the poetic figure of the robot drawn to human splendor, remains powerful throughout -- and Pixar's loveliest creation.. The greatest of all films by Pixar Animation, the little Disney studio with the Midas touch.. WALL-E is a surprisingly moving parable of what we waste, and what we should cherish -- and wrapped in a romance so absurdly moving it could wring a tear or two even from Gort and Robby the Robot. Or a parent and child.. The picture feels weirdly, an...

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Igor (2008) Online-Streaming-

A rarity to be cheered: a smart, engaging family film that stands firmly in the best of the Disney tradition.. There's scant reward for sitting through Igor, an animated twist on the Frankenstein story that never sparks to life.. Until The Rookie came along, I'd forgotten how good and smart a family film can be.. If they gave an Oscar for Best Performance in a Mediocre Movie, Dennis Quaid should already be clearing his mantelpiece.. Even the desolate future envisioned in this summer's hit Wall-E...

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