Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Puss in Boots

Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town.













Trailer

Starring:
Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris
Directed by:
Chris Miller
Genres: Family, Action/Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Running Time: 90 min
MPAA Rating: PG (for some adventure action and mild rude humor)
Yahoo! Users: 4/5 (2,287 ratings)
IMDb Users Rating: 6.8/10 (26,557 users)

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Soren, is a young owl enthralled by his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owl kind from the evil Pure Ones. While Soren dreams of someday joining his heroes, his older brother, Kludd, scoffs at the notion, and yearns to hunt, fly and steal his father's favor from his younger sibling. But Kludd's jealousy has terrible consequences--causing both owlets to fall from their treetop home and right into the talons of the Pure Ones. Now it is up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave young owls. Together they soar across the sea and through the mist to find the Great Tree, home of the legendary Guardians of Ga'Hoole--Soren's only hope of defeating the Pure Ones and saving the owl kingdoms.

Trailer

Starring: Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Joel Edgerton, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Genres: Animation, Kids/Family, Adaptation and Science Fiction/Fantasy
Running Time: 90 min.
MPAA Rating: PG for some sequences of scary action
Yahoo! Critics: B-
IMDb Users Rating: 7.0/10 (23,910 votes)
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Gnomeo & Juliet

Two garden gnomes, Gnomeo and Juliet, try to avoid tragedy and find a happy ending to their star-crossed love affair when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors.













Trailer
Starring:
James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Jason Statham
Directed by:
Kelly Asbury
Genres: Action/Adventure, Kids/Family, Comedy, Musical/Performing Arts and Animation
Running Time: 1 hr. 24 min.
MPAA Rating: G
Yahoo! Critics: C+
IMDb Users Rating: 5.9/10 (13,663 votes)

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Cars 2

Star racecar Lightning McQueen and the incomparable tow truck Mater take their friendship to exciting new places when they head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world's fastest car. But the road to the championship is filled with plenty of potholes, detours and hilarious surprises when Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage. Torn between assisting Lightning McQueen in the high-profile race and towing the line in a top-secret spy mission, Mater's action-packed journey leads him on an explosive chase through the streets of Japan and Europe, trailed by his friends and watched by the whole world. Adding to the fast-paced fun is a colorful new all-car cast that includes secret agents, menacing villains and international racing competitors.

Trailer
Starring: Larry the Cable Guy , Owen Wilson, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Eddie Izzard
Directed by:
John Lasseter, Brad Lewis
Genres: Animation, Sequel and Kids/Family
Running Time: 1 hr. 53 min.

MPAA Rating: G
Yahoo! Critics: B-
IMDb Users Rating: 6.5/10 (22,949 votes)
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Friday, October 21, 2011

Bedtime Stories

Hotel handyman Skeeter Bronson's life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts to take advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into one outlandish tale after another, but it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn Skeeter's life upside down.






Trailer

Starring: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Teresa Palmer, Guy Pearce, Russell Brand
Directed by:
Adam Shankman
Genres: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Kids/Family, Action/Adventure and Comedy
Running Time: 1 hr. 39 min.

MPAA Rating: PG for some mild rude humor and mild language
Yahoo! Critics: C
IMDb Users Rating: 6.1/10 (28,407 votes)
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Friday, October 7, 2011

A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.







Trailer

Starring: Jim Carrey, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman
Directed by:
Robert Zemeckis
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Kids/Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Animation, Adaptation, Holiday and Remake
Running Time: 1 hr. 36 min.

MPAA Rating: PG for scary sequences and images
Yahoo! Critics: B-
IMDb Users Rating: 6.9/10 (21,418 votes)
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Princess and the Frog

From the city of New Orleans comes a modern twist on a classic tale, featuring a beautiful girl named Tiana, a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again and a fateful kiss that leads them both on an adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana.










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Starring: Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley, James Cummings
Directed by:Ron Clements, John Musker
Genres: Animation, Kids/Family, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Musical/Performing Arts
Running Time: 1 hr. 35 min.

MPAA Rating: G
Yahoo! Critics: B+
IMDb Users Rating: 7.2/10 (25,743 votes)
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

America's favorite furry brothers Alvin, Simon and Theodore are back. Because of a freak accident involving Alvin and Dave Seville, they go to live with Dave's cool cousin, Toby and they have to enroll in school like every other kid. School presents new challenges to these rock stars like dealing with peer pressure, football and of course, girls. By "girls" we mean the Chipettes who are managed by Ian Hawke, the Chipmunks greedy former manager who wants to turn them into the next big thing. There is rivalry between the Chipettes and the Chipmunks at first, but in the end they realize that they make great friends and a great musical team.

Trailer
Starring: Jason Lee, Zachary Levi, Anjelah Johnson, Wendie Malick, Justin Long
Directed by:
Betty Thomas
Genres: Comedy, Kids/Family and Sequel
Running Time: 1 hr. 29 min.

MPAA Rating: PG for some mild rude humor

Yahoo! Critics: C-

IMDb Users Rating: 3.9/10 (9,227 votes)

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

The Last Airbender

Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara, a Waterbender, and her brother Sokka to restore balance to their war-torn world.




Trailer

Starring: Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Aasif Mandvi, Shaun Toub
Directed by:
M. Night Shyamalan
Genres: Action/Adventure, Kids/Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Adaptation
Running Time: 1 hr. 43 min.

MPAA Rating: PG for fantasy action violence
Yahoo! Critics: D+
IMDb Users Rating: 4.5/10 (28,009 votes)
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Rapunzel 3D

When the kingdom's most wanted -- and most charming -- bandit Flynn Rider hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel, a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with 70 feet of magical, golden hair. Flynn's curious captor, who's looking for her ticket out of the tower where she's been locked away for years, strikes a deal with the handsome thief and the unlikely duo sets off on an action-packed escapade, complete with a super-cop horse, an over-protective chameleon and a gruff gang of pub thugs.

Trailer

Starring:
Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman, M.C. Gainey
Directed by:
Byron Howard and Nathan Greno
Genres: Action/Adventure, Kids/Family, Musical/Performing Arts, Animation and Adaptation
MPAA Rating: PG for brief mild violence
Yahoo! Users: A
IMDb Users Rating: 7.3/10 (32 votes)
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Sammy's Adventures - The Secret Passage 3D

A sea turtle who was hatched in 1959 spends the next 50 years traveling the world while it is being changed by global warming.
















Trailer

Starring: Melanie Griffith, Kathy Griffin, Isabelle Fuhrman, Tim Curry, Stacy Keach
Directed by:
Ben Stassen
Genres: Action/Adventure, Art/Foreign, Kids/Family and Animation
MPAA Rating: G
IMDb Users Rating: 6.6/10 (116 votes)
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Sunday, August 8, 2010

The Lovely Bones

Susie Salmon, a young girl who has been murdered, watches over her family -- and her killer -- from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.












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Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli
Directed by:
Peter Jackson
Genres: Drama, Kids/Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller and Adaptation
Running Time: 2 hrs. 19 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material involving disturbing violent content and images, and some language
Yahoo! Critics: C
IMDb User Rating: 6.6/10 (30,070 votes)
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Friday, July 23, 2010

Despicable Me 3D

In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon, yes, the moon. Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. The world's greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes.

Trailer

Starring: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Elsie Fisher, Ken Jeong
Directed by:
Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
Genres: Comedy, Kids/Family and Animation
Running Time: 1 hr. 28 min.

MPAA Rating: PG for rude humor and mild action
Yahoo! Critics: B
IMDb User Rating: 7.8/10 (5,282 votes)
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Sister Act

Delores is having an affair with her Mafia boss, Vince. Her career as a singer in Las Vegas is going nowhere and Vince won't divorce his wife and she goes to him to break it off, witnessing a murder Vince just ordered. Running from the club, she seeks police protection. They agree to hide her in the one place Vince would never look for her. She finds, to her chagrin, that it is a convent, where she must impersonate a nun. After several false starts, she is assigned to the convent's dismal choir. She challenges and reorganizes them to become a modern singing group. In this she is successful, and as the choir gets better, success brings it's own problems.

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Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes
Directed by:
Emile Ardolino
Genres: Comedy, Kids/Family, Musical/Performing Arts and Politics/Religion
Running Time: 1 hr. 36 min.

MPAA Rating: PG
Yahoo! Users Rating: B-
IMDb Users Rating: 5.9/10 (24,249 votes)
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Tooth Fairy

"The Tooth Fairy," also known as Derek Thompson, is a hard-charging hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster's dreams, he's sentenced to one week's hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand. At first, Derek "can't handle the tooth" - bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers' homes-doing what tooth fairies do. But as Derek slowly adapts to his new position, he begins to rediscover his own forgotten dreams.

Trailer

Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Stephen Merchant, Ryan Sheckler, Seth MacFarlane
Directed by:
Michael Lembeck
Genres: Comedy and Kids/Family
Running Time: 1 hr. 42 min.

MPAA Rating: PG for mild language, some rude humor and sports action
Yahoo! Critics: C-
IMDb Users Rating: 4.6/10 (4,604 votes)
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Possession

A woman's husband collides with his brother in a freak car accident, landing both of them into comas. Complications arise when the brother wakes and believes that he is the woman's husband.












Trailer

Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lee Pace, Tuva Novotny, Joel Bergvall, Dhirendra
Directed by:
Joel Bergvall, Simon Sandquist
Genres: Drama, Kids/Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller and Remake
Running Time: 1 hr. 25 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, disturbing images, some sexuality and language
Yahoo! Users Rating: B
IMDb User Rating: 6.0/10 (1,022 votes)
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Up

Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Junior Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.






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Starring: Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai, Christopher Plummer, Delroy Lindo, John Ratzenberger
Directed by: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Kids/Family and Animation
Running Time: 1 hr. 29 min.
MPAA Rating: PG for some peril and action
Yahoo! Critics: A-
IMDb User Rating: 8.4/10 (83,492votes)
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Cirque Du Soleil: Kooza

KOOZA tells the story of The Innocent, a melancholy loner in search of his place in the world. KOOZA is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil: It combines two circus traditions – acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. The show highlights the physical demands of human performance in all its splendor and fragility, presented in a colorful mélange that emphasizes bold slapstick humor.
The Innocent's journey brings him into contact with a panoply of comic characters such as the King, the Trickster, the Pickpocket, and the Obnoxious Tourist and his Bad Dog.
Between strength and fragility, laughter and smiles, turmoil and harmony, KOOZA explores themes of fear, identity, recognition and power. The show is set in an electrifying and exotic visual world full of surprises, thrills, chills, audacity and total involvement.

Trailer

Performer: Jason Berrent, Christian Fitzharris, Michael Halvarson, Joshua Ryan Zehner
Directed by: Mario Janelle, David Shiner
Genres: Family, Music
Running Time: 112 min.
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Sunday, October 4, 2009

The Proposal

When high-powered book editor Margaret faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she's actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew, who she's tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.

Trailer

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Denis O'Hare, Malin Akerman, Mary Steenburgen
Directed by:
Anne Fletcher
Genres: Comedy and Kids/Family
Running Time: 1 hr. 48 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, nudity and language
Yahoo! Critics: C+
IMDb User Rating: 7.0/10
My Rating: &&&&

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 3D

The sub zero heroes are back. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever elusive nut, while maybe finding true love. Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth. Diego the saber toothed tiger wonders if he's growing too soft and Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna, run amuck and meet a relentless, one eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.

Trailer

Starring: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Simon Pegg
Directed by:
Carlos Saldanha, Michael Thurmeier
Genres: Comedy, Kids/Family, Animation and Sequel
Running Time: 1 hr. 27 min.

MPAA Rating: PG for mild humor and peril
Yahoo! Critics: C
IMDb Users Rating: 7.3/10
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