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THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE ON THE RUN

March 2, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE ON THE RUN

There has always been an archly hallucinogenic element to Spongebob Squarepants. I don’t mean the conceit of a sentient aggregate life form living in a pineapple under the sea. No, Spongebob has used it to tackle the existential from time to time while also being deliciously silly and being unapologetically full of heart. One need… Read More »

Tagged With: aggregate life form, animation, existential, greed, invertebrate, snail, snailnapping, zombie pirates

OVER THE MOON

December 31, 2020 By Leave a Comment

OVER THE MOON

OVER THE MOON sensitively takes on a difficult subject, the loss of a mother with the subsequent prospect of a blended family. It becomes a film that is respectful of the issue, yet triumphantly uplifting in it message of moving on while still honoring the past. Along the way, we learn about the importance of… Read More »

Tagged With: biker chick, blended family, lunar landscape, moon cake, moon festival, Moon Goddess

THE CROODS: A NEW AGE

December 29, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE CROODS: A NEW AGE

The animation in THE CROODS: A NEW AGE is just as lovely as it was in the original. As we find our cave family going through some changes, though, the story, while lively, has a distinctly mid-century sit-com vibe, and not just because that Partridge Family anthem, “I Think I Love You”, is on repeat… Read More »

Tagged With: bananas, cave people, punch monkey, sequel, wolf spider

SOUL

December 24, 2020 By Leave a Comment

SOUL

Pixar’s SOUL is as slyly unpredictable as it is playfully brilliant. Nothing less than a deconstruction of what life means, it is both raucous and Zen as it tells the story of a jazz musician who is not ready for the Great Beyond, thereby becoming a perfect koan, and possibly the best movie of the… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, jazz, paradigm shift, souls, spark

THE WAR WITH GRANDPA

October 8, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE WAR WITH GRANDPA

Amid the stale jokes and flat direction to be found in THE WAR WITH GRANDPA, one is subjected to cartoonish takes on elder abuse, child abuse, and I’m pretty sure that the bass didn’t enjoy its time during the fishing sequence. Based on the book of the same name by Robert Kimmel Smith, the film… Read More »

Tagged With: attic, book to screen, Family, father-daughter, fishing, Santa

THE TRUTH (La Vérité)

July 3, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE TRUTH (La Vérité)

In Hirokazu Koreeda’s last film, the Oscar®-nominated SHOPLIFTERS, he incisively examined the ethics of capitalism, and its effects on one poverty-stricken, yet devoted, ragtag family ingeniously doing battle with a system designed to keep them down economically. In THE TRUTH, he moves the action from Tokyo to Paris to examine the ethics of veracity on… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, film-with-a-film, memoir, mother-daughter, Paris

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

October 15, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Considering it only lasted two seasons in its initial run back in the 1960s, the television version of Charles Addam’s gruesomely enchanting New Yorker cartoon, The Addams Family, has become a powerful pop culture touchstone. It’s a favor that the current animated version amply repays, rife as it is with pop and political references. And… Read More »

Tagged With: marsh, mazurka, smokey eye, spooky, television

ABOMINABLE

September 29, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ABOMINABLE

ABOMINABLE is a sweet, if unremarkable, movie. With a plot that offers little in the way of novelty and characters who are as familiar to fans of contemporary animated films aimed at kiddies as Harlequin was to fans of the commedia dell’arte, it does boast some fine animation and a mythical creature that is undeniably… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, China, Himalayas, yeti

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD

February 24, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD

Ah, the timeless tale of a boy and his dragon.  As recounted in HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON I and II, it was magical. Even more magical is that the final part of the trilogy, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD is the equal of the first two without being a repeat of either installment.

Tagged With: book to screen, flaming sword, hobgobbler, Light Fury, Night Fury, sequel. dragons

MARY POPPINS RETURNS

December 18, 2018 By Leave a Comment

MARY POPPINS RETURNS

It’s a testament to just how good MARY POPPINS RETURNS is that the weakest part of this sequel to the 1964 film is the sequence with Meryl Streep.  I hasten to point out the relative nature of the word “weakest”. Like everything else in this practically perfect cinematic exercise, it’s eye-popping and clever as the… Read More »

Tagged With: bubbling dolphins, lamplighters, London, sequel

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