It’s rare to get children’s films that are anything but safe these days. The exception to this comes in the form of Aardman Animation’s The Pirates! Band of Misfits, a delightfully off-beat, witty and clever pirates adventure.

In typical Aardman fashion, the film blends stop-motion animation with scenery-enriching computer graphics that actually add to the visual appeal of the film. In tradition with Aardman’s past films, such as Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, The Pirates! Band of M...

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Dr. Seuss’ books are timeless children’s classics, and the latest one to get the animated film treatment is the environmental-conscious story The Lorax.

If you don’t know, the original story is about The Lorax and his forest-inhabiting friends fighting against the Once-ler who’s looking to chop down trees to make his successful product called “thneeds”.

The film follows the plot of the book but adds several arcs to get this to feature length size. One of the biggest and most enjoyab...

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I hate to admit it, but until last week, I had never seen 'The Lion King'. I KNOW! It's like saying 'I've never tasted chocolate' or something! Anyhoo, I went in with an open mind and left with my mind still open. It was fun, I enjoyed the scenes with Zazu the bird and all, but, and this is a BIG BUT!
The songs were shite!
Absolutely rubbish!
Sorry!
The 3D was bad as well.
Please forgive me
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The summer is coming to a close, and as much as i wanted to begin my review with the line 'I think i'm going to smurf!', this pleasantly surprised me. Better than 'Super 8' for sure!
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Directed at very young children, this new hand-drawn Pooh film from Disney is mildly entertaining but much too short and not original enough.
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In the extremely successful 2008 film 'Kung-Fu Panda', Jack Black finally got a chance to play himself, because, however funny he was in 'School of Rock' and 'Envy', he is just an overweight comic actor that wants to be a heavy metal star, just like Po is an overweight panda that wants to be a Dragon Warrior!
That film was quite funny, but this just drags all the gags along the Wall of China too far, and they eventually fall asleep.

Pity, 'cause after the awful 'Gulliver's Travels', Black neede...
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The best thing about Rio is the background detail, which shows beautiful parts of the Brazilian city. Jesse Eisenberg does quite a good job as the main bird, Blu, and could have a future career in Animated roles!
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Will Ferrell voices 'Megamind', a supervillian quite similar to Gru from Despicable Me, a film that came out exactly the same week as Megamind. It's not as good as DM, but when Megamind answers the phone 'Orlo?', everyone will be laughing!

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'Tangled' is a slapstick, sarcastic version of the Rapunzel fairytale. It's the 50th ever Disney animated film and I don't feel like Walt would be proud of it being CGI, but it's still a pretty good film. The jokes are quite mature and well written, the animation is nice, but the cheesy songs are simply unbearable! A number of moments are unbelievably unrealistic, such as when Rapunzel leaves her tower for the first time since she was born, she is able to swim really well! WHAT????? Still, if...
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This is probably the most British film ever made, and I cannot understand how it managed to get released in the USA, and actually make quite a lot of money too! It has an amzing voice cast including Sir Michael Caine, Sir Patrick Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne, Emily Blunt, Matt Lucas, Maggie Smith, Jason Statham and Steven Merchant, most of which only speak for about 3.5 seconds. It's not good. It could never be good. It relies to heavily on the music of Elton John to carry the plot along and would ...
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'HOP' is the first ever Christmas film that isn't about Christmas-instead it's about Easter! Russell Brand voices the easter bunny's son who is about to be incarnated as the new EB, but would much rather be a rock drummer. He runs away to Los Angeles and moves in with Fred, played by James Mardsen. Fans of Alvin &.. will probably enjoy but it's not half as funny or witty as Despicable Me!

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'Yogi Bear' is a computer-generated 3D remake of the classic Hannah Barbra cartoon series. It features the voices of Dan Ackroyd and Justin Timberlake as two bears living in 'Jellystone Park' who are addicted to picnic food. They spend their days attempting (and failing) to steal the human tourists' picnic baskets, using a series of interesting inventions. It's a fun family film with surprisingly good 3D, which may please fans of Alvin and the Chipmunks and that sort of thing.

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I enjoyed this spectacularly funny animated film more than any of the Toy Story films! It stars Steve Carrell as the incredibly likeable villian Gru. He has been living in suburbia, bored and out of work, and with a city of his 'minions' in his basement, for 10 years. and he wants to be a famous villian again. The best way to do this-STEAL THE MOON! He enlists the help of 3 orphaned young girls, whom he adopts, to steal his rival inventor's shrink ray by selling him biscuits while Gru sneaks ...
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This superb short film is showing in 3D before all screenings of Toy Story 3.

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Andy is now 17 and ready to head off to college, leaving Woody, Buzz, Jessie, and the rest of the toy-box gang to ponder their uncertain futures. When the toys are accidentally donated to the Sunnyside Daycare center they're initially overjoyed to once again be played with, but their enthusiasm quickly gives way to horror as they discover the true nature of the establishment under the rule of the deceptively welcoming "Lotso" Bear. Now, all of the toys must band together in one final, crazy s...
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The first two full-length computer animated films ever made were Toy Story and Shrek.This summer sees new films in both these franchises released.The first of these two i saw was Shrek:Forever After,the last film in the series about the green ogre.In this film,a bored and domesticated Shrek pacts with deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin to get back to feeling like a real ogre again after he becomes a proper family man, but when he's duped and sent to a twisted version of Far Far Away -- where Rumpelst...
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