Mixed Reviews For Shrek Forever After
Posted on | May 24, 2010 | Add Comments
We’re looking forward to Shrek Forever After. Some critics are not. Predictably it’s the last Shrek film says all the news. The Providence Journal gives the film two stars. The New York Times thinks the film is the darkest Shrek (yet.) I have not seen the film yet but despite all the reviews I will still see it because I liked the other Shrek movies.
Around the world in 80 days (Flack’s Review)
Posted on | May 22, 2010 | 2 Comments
Rating: 4.5
This movie is about the Englishman Phileas Fogg who bets 20,000 pounds he can travel around the world in 80 days. While Phileas Fogg travels around the world with his servant Passepatout they rescue the princess Aouda. But after being attacked by Indians, encountering a broken railroad, and meeting an evil detective it is uncertain if they will make it around the world in 80 days!
My favorite part is when Phileas Fogg and Passepatout get attacked by Indians in New York because I like the action, suspense, and music during this scene.
My favorite character is Passapatout. He is funny in the circus when he holds the clowns who are balancing but lets go and they all fall down.
I rate it PG for a scene of violence, romance and some adult themes.
The MPAA rating is G.
Website: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048960/
Director: Michael Anderson
Writers: James Poe (screenplay) &
John Farrow (screenplay)
Release Date: 1958 (USA)
Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance
AWARDS:
1957 Oscar
Best Cinematography, Color
Lionel Lindon
Best Film Editing
Gene Ruggiero
Paul Weatherwax
Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Victor Young
Posthumously.
Best Picture
Michael Todd
Best Writing, Best Screenplay – Adapted
James Poe
John Farrow
S.J. Perelman
Cast
David Niven … Phileas Fogg
Cantinflas … Passepartout
Shirley MacLaine … Princess Aouda
Robert Newton … Mr. Fix
Finlay Currie … Andrew Stuart
Robert Morley … Gauthier Ralph
Ronald Squire … Reform Club Member
Basil Sydney … Reform Club Member
Noel Coward … Hesketh-Baggott
John Gielgud … Foster (as Sir John Gielgud)
Trevor Howard … Denis Fallentin
Harcourt Williams … Hinshaw
Martine Carol … Tourist
Fernandel … French Coachman
Charles Boyer … Monsieur Gasse
Evelyn Keyes … The Flirt
Jose Greco and Troupe … Flamenco Dancers
Luis Miguel Dominguín … Bullfighter (as Luis Dominguin)
Gilbert Roland … Achmed Abdullah
Cesar Romero … Achmed Abdullah’s Henchman
Alan Mowbray … Consul
Cedric Hardwicke … Sir Francis Cromarty (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
Melville Cooper … Mr. Talley
Reginald Denny … Police Chief
Ronald Colman … Railway Official
Robert Cabal … Elephant Driver-Guide
Summer Movies for kids 2010
Posted on | May 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
Today’s post was co-written by our mom, publisher of Kidoinfo.com.
Here is our list of summer movies for kids—not all are for little kids. Use the information below to help you make decisions of which ones are appropriate for your family. Our top pick is Toy Story 3. We are also looking forward to The Last Airbender, The Karate Kid and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. We wish they were old enough to see Robin Hood and Prince of Persia.
MAY
IRON MAN 2 Release Date: May 7, 2010
Runtime: 124 min
Rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence, and some language.
Parental Rating: Via IMDB
Director: Jon Favreau
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson
SYNOPSIS: Based on the comic book series, this sequel to Iron Man (2008), billionaire Tony Stark must contend with deadly issues involving the government, his own friends and new enemies due to his superhero alter ego Iron Man.
ROBIN HOOD Release Date: May 14, 2010
Rating: Rated PG-13 for violence including intense sequences of warfare, and some sexual content.
Runtime: 140 minutes
Parental Rating: Via IMDB
Director: Ridley Scott
Studio: Universal Pictures
Starring: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Mark Strong, Danny Huston
Genre: Action | Drama
SYNOPSIS: Based on the classic tale of Robin Hood, an archer in the army of King Richard fighting against the French. While King Richard is gone, Robin travels to Nottingham and assembles a gang to prey upon the rich and help the poor.
SHREK FOREVER AFTER Release Date: May 21, 2010
Runtime: 93 minutes
Rating: Rated PG for mild action, some rude humor and brief language
Parental Rating: Via IMDB
Director: Mike Mitchell
Studio: DreamWorks Animation
Cast: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
SYNOPSIS: In this fourth movie, Shrek is feeling over-domesticated. He used to send villagers running in terror, now they ask him to sign their pitchforks. To regain his ogre mojo, he strikes a deal with the crafty Rumpelstiltskin. When the pact goes wrong Shrek must confront what life would be like in Far Far Away if he had never existed.
PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME Release Date: May 28, 2010
Run Time: 116 minutes
Rating: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action.
Parental Rating: Via IMDB
Director: Mike Newell
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Romance
SYNOPSIS: Based on the comic book Prince of Persia later made into a video game series. Jake Gyllenhaal plays an adventurous Persian prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a world-destroying sandstorm.
JUNE
MARMADUKE Release Date: June 4, 2010
Runtime: N/A
Rating: PG for some rude humor and language
Parental Rating: Via IMDB
Director:Tom Dey
Studio: Davis Entertainment
Cast: Owen Wilson, Keiffer Sutherland, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Emma Stone
Genre: Comedy | Family
SYNOPSIS: Based on the comic Marmaduke found in the daily funny pages of many local papers. A suburban family moves to new neighborhood with the large lovable great dane who is prone to wreak havoc when he is around.
THE KARATE KID Release Date: June 11, 2010
Run Time: N/A
Rating: PG for bullying, martial arts action violence and some mild language
Parental Rating: Via IMDB
Director: Harald Zwart
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson
Genre: Action | Drama | Family | Sport
SYNOPSIS: Based on the 1984 coming-of-age classic, The Karate Kid (starring Ralph Macchio) about a California kid and the karate master who takes him under his wing. In this remake, the story is a coming of age story re-set in China.
TOY STORY 3 Release Date: June 18, 2010
Run Time: 86 minutes
Rating: N/A. Probably G
Parental Rating: Via IMDB
Director: Lee Unkrich
Studio: Pixar Animation Studios
Voices: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Keaton, Bonnie Hunt
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
SYNOPSIS: Andy is going off to college. After he packs up his old toys they get mistaken for trash and wind up at The Sunnyside Daycare. In this action-packed adventure our favorite toys meet up with a new group of toys and need to figure out how to get back to their old pal, Andy.
JULY
THE LAST AIRBENDER Release Date: July 2, 2010
Run Time: N/A
Rating: N/A
Parental Rating: Via IMDB
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Jackson Rathbone, Cliff Curtis, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz
Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | War
SYNOPSIS: A 3-D, live-action adaptation of the animated TV series, The Last Airbender about a young spiritual figure who looks for adventure.
DESPICABLE ME Release Date: July 9, 2010
Runtime: N/A
Rating: Rated PG for rude humor and mild action.
Parental Rating: Via IMDB
Voices: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Jason Segel, Ken Jeong, Julie Andrews
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Genre: Animation | Family
Studio: Illumination Entertainment
SYNOPSIS: Three orphan girls come into the life of a despicable supervillain who is trying to steal the moon.
THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE Release Date: July 16, 2010
Runtime:N/A
Rating: N/A
Parental Rating: Via IMDB
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina
Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
SYNOPSIS: A live-action, modern-day retelling of the classic tale, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in which a seemingly normal kid is recruited by a Manhattan sorcerer who needs his help to battle the forces of darkness.
RAMONA AND BEEZUS Release Date: July 23, 2010
Runtime: N/A
Rating: G
Parental Rating: Via IMDB
Starring: Joey King, Selena Gomez, John Corbett
Director: Elizabeth Allen
Genre: Family | Comedy
Studio: 20th Century Fox
SYNOPSIS: Beverly Cleary’s classic children’s books come to life, following the misadventures of the young grade-schooler, Ramona Quimby.
NANNY MCPHEE AND THE BIG BANG Release Date: August 20, 2010
Runtime: 109 minutes
Rating: PG for rude humor, some language and mild thematic elements.
Parental Rating: Via IMDB
Cast: Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maggie Smith, Rhys Ifans.
Director: Susanna White.
Studio: Universal Pictures
Genre: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
SYNOPSIS: The magical and unusual looking governess from Chistianna Brand’s books shows up in a sequel to the 2005 family film. This time, she’s summoned to help a harried mother raise her children while the woman’s husband is away at war.
Movie magazines!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on | May 10, 2010 | Add Comments
Soon (thanks to our grandfather) we will be getting a subscription to Entertainment Weekly, a movie magazine. It is not only about movies though; they also talk about music, TV, video games and books. Some of the best movie Entertainment Weekly’s have been about the Oscars, the 2010 Alice in Wonderland, and ninety-six new Summer movies.
On Saturday I bought a magazine called Empire at Borders, which is only about movies, movies and movies. I like it a little better than Entertainment Weekly. This issue of Empire is about summer movies. There are 3 main articles about Robin Hood, Ironman 2, and Prince of Persia. There’s a crossword puzzle, movie reviews and some DVD reviews. You might not find it at most magazine shops because it’s from England.
Empire is 162 pages and Entertainment Weekly is only about 100, so Empire has many more articles and facts. Entertainment Weekly obviously comes out weekly and Empire comes out Monthly.
Tim Burton: The MOMA Exhibition
Posted on | May 10, 2010 | Add Comments
4 stars
This Tim Burton exhibition (closed April 26, 2010) shows drawings from his past and a few shorts and commercials he made. There is also a room devoted to the real movie props from his films. For example things from BeetleJuice, Planet of the Apes, Ed Wood, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and more. It does not have things from Alice in Wonderland because the exhibition came out before the film did. In the gift shop they have a book of Alice in Wonderland for sale.
I liked learning about Tim Burton more even though I already knew a lot about him and had already seen and loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland and parts of Edward Scissorhands.
I liked the movie aritfacts in this exhibit. I especially liked the Batman masks and the Edward Scissorhand life size model. I also liked the screen with the Tim Burton commercials. There was one with a guy who had watches and he started kicking people in the faces and also one where people took their heads off and they had skeleton heads. I liked his sculptures alot. I liked them because I liked learning the history of how he made commercials and learning about Tim Burton himself.
I think this photo is from the opening of the exhibition. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton, and Danny DeVito pose for this photo. Someday soon I would love to meet them in person.
Beetlejuice (Flack’s Review)
Posted on | April 24, 2010 | Add Comments
Flack’s rating: 4.7 
.7
This movie is about Adam and Barbara who one day die in a car crash and turn into ghosts. Everyone thinks they are dead since the living can’t see ghosts. New people move into their house and Adam and Barbara try to stop them by scaring them. Surprisingly the daughter of the new people finds out that Adam and Barbara still live in the house. Adam and Barbara bring back Beetlejuice, not knowing he is an evil dead person by saying his name three times to help them scare the new owners out of their house. Then Adam, Barbara and the daughter find out Beetlejuice is evil and must stop him.
My favorite character is Adam because I think it is very funny when he makes his head the head of a dinosaur.
WARNING SPOILERS!!!!! My favorite part is at the end when Beetlejuice is at the dead people waiting room and has some huge gigantic ticket number like in the billions and grabs ticket number 4 out the hand from the person waiting next to him. I like this scene because it is hilarious.
MPAA Rating: PG.
I rate it PG for scary moments, brief romance, a little mild language and a couple scenes of violence. This movie may be scary for some, I recommend it for 7 and up. Judge accordingly.
Director: Tim Burton
Writers: Michael McDowell (story) & Larry Wilson (story)
Release Date: 30 March 1988 (USA)
Genre: Comedy | Fantasy
Wesbite: www.imdb.com/title/tt0094721/
Awards: 1989 Won Oscar for Best Makeup
Cast:
Michael Keaton: Beetlejuice
Alec Baldwin: Adam Maitland
Geena Davis: Barbara Maitland
Winona Ryder: Lydia Deetz
Catherine O’Hara: Delia Deetz
Jeffrey Jones: Charles Deetz
Annie McEnroe: Jane Butterfield
Maurice Page: Ernie
Hugo Stanger: Old Bill
“The Invention of Hugo Cabret” will be in 3-D!!!!!
Posted on | April 16, 2010 | 4 Comments
Based on the book by Brian Selznick, the upcoming movie Hugo Cabret will be in 3-D. It will be directed by Martin Scorsese who recently won the Cecil B. Demile award for someone who has directed, produced or acted in many, many movies over their lifetime. I think the film will have tons of special effects . The movie is coming out on December 11, 2011 — there will definitly be a review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Princess Bride (Flack’s Review)
Posted on | April 8, 2010 | Add Comments
Flack’s Rating:
The movie based on the book by William Goldman is about Wesley after being taken away from his true love. Returning, he, a sword fighter and a strong giant must rescue her from being married to the king. This is one of the best movies ever because of the amazing sword fights (the highlights of the movie).
My favorite part is at the beginning when Wesley and Inigo Montoya sword fight because I LOVE SWORD FIGHTING!!!!!!!!!!!
My favorite character is Wesley because I like when he sword fights and I like when he wears black.
Rating: MPAA Rating is PG.
I rate it PG for violence and romance.
Director: Rob Reiner
Writers: William Goldman (screenplay) and William Goldman (book)
Release Date: 25 September 1987 (USA)
Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Website: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/
Awards: 1988 Oscar Nominated for Best Music, Original Song: Willy DeVille For the song “Storybook Love”.
CAST:
Cary Elwes…Westley
Mandy Patinkin…Inigo Montoya
Chris Sarandon…Prince Humperdinck
Christopher Guest…Count Tyrone Rugen
Wallace Shawn…Vizzini
André the Giant…Fezzik (as Andre the Giant)
Fred Savage…The Grandson
Robin Wright Penn…Buttercup / The Princess Bride (as Robin Wright)
Peter Falk…The Grandfather / Narrator
Peter Cook…The Impressive Clergyman
Mel Smith…The Albino
Carol Kane…Valerie
Billy Crystal…Miracle Max
Anne Dyson…The Queen
Margery Mason…The Ancient Booer
Soon to Review “How to Train Your Dragon”
Posted on | March 28, 2010 | Add Comments
The all new animated Dream Works fantasy action adventure will soon be reviewed on flick flack. Maybe we will see it in 3-D. I am looking forward to it because I think the special effects and the 3-D will be amazing.
From the New York Times on Friday (March 26, 2010):
No Slaying Required: A Viking Aids an Enemy and Wins a Friend
By A. O. SCOTT
Who framed Roger Rabbit (Flack’s Review)
Posted on | March 21, 2010 | Add Comments
Flack’s Rating: 5 out of 5
This movie is about a mean person named Judge Doom who has the “dip” which can kill cartoons. A detective named Eddie Valiant must help Roger Rabbit get away from Judge Doom. Now Eddie Valiant the detective, Roger Rabbit a funny cartoon and Jessica Rabbit, Roger’s wife and cartoon singer must get away from Judge Doom and his wolf cartoon helpers.
My favorite character is Roger Rabbit because I like that he can get handcuffs off him when something is funny.
My favorite part is the end duel between Judge Doom and Eddie Valiant because I like the action, funniness and music.
I rate it PG for action violence ,bad language romance and adult themes.
Director:
Robert Zemeckis
Writers:
Gary K. Wolf (novel)
Jeffrey Price (screenplay)
Release Date: June 1988 (USA)
Genre: Animation | Comedy | Crime | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Awards: Won 4 Oscars.
1989 Won an Oscar for:
Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing
Best Effects, Visual Effects
Best Film Editing
Special Achievement Award
Richard Williams
For animation direction and creation of the cartoon characters.
Cast
Bob Hoskins Eddie Valiant
Christopher Lloyd Judge Doom
Joanna Cassidy Dolores
Charles Fleischer Roger Rabbit / Benny The Cab / Greasy / Psycho (voice)
Stubby Kaye Marvin Acme
Alan Tilvern R.K. Maroon
Richard LeParmentier Lt. Santino (as Richard Le Parmentier)
Lou Hirsch Baby Herman (voice)
Betsy Brantley Jessica’s Performance Model
Joel Silver Raoul
Paul Springer Augie
Richard Ridings Angelo
Edwin Craig Arthritic Cowboy
Lindsay Holiday Soldier
Mike Edmonds Stretch
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