The Spiderwick Chronicles (Widescreen Edition)
From the beloved, best-selling series of books comes an extraordinary fantasy adventure, revealing the unseen world that exists all around us. From the moment the Grace family moves into a secluded old house peculiar things start to happen. Unable to explain the accidents and strange disappearances, the Grace children, Jared, Simon and Mallory start to investigate and find the unbelievable truth of the Spiderwick Estate and the amazing creatures that inhabit it.
Popularity: 6% [?]
I don't know if it was the movie or just that I was tired but I ended up falling asleep for a portion of this movie. I know what it was, it was the movie. Not to say that this movie is bad. No, this movie is perfect for the children between 3 to 12 years old. I kind of compare this movie to Barney, perfect for kids, mind numbing for adults.
Horton played by Jim Carrey is the elephant who has a captive audience of all the children in the forest and a huge influence on all of them finds a spec that he happens to find has a whole culture of WHO living on it. And Hortan with his big ears can hear them. But that is the problem, he is the only one who can hear them. All of the adults think that he is making all of this up about the spec and such is influencing the children to believe in make believe and they can't have that. So, one adult in particular takes it upon herself to try and get rid of the speek. But anything that she does to get rid of the spec will destroy the WHO and Hortan has guaranteed to protect the WHO at all cost.
Steve Carell plays the Mayor of the town of the WHO who makes the initial contact with Horton and convinces him to take care of them and to get them to a safe spot so that nothing will happen to his beloved town and city. His problem is that no one believe him either. Actually, that don't have much confidence in him at all. But he eventually does win over the town who also implore Horton to protect them also.
This movie is rated G and is for all in the family. Small children will love and adore this movie. All the children that were in my showing were laughing continuously throughout the entire film.
Popularity: 7% [?]
What can I say about this one. One thing that I can say is that Disney definitely thinks outside of the box. To take a long lasting love story, re-invent it and drop it right smack in the middle of New York. But not only that; instead of keeping with the same old musical format were everyone is nice and willing to give everything in the drop of a moment, they change that. Some people are actually mean. Not just the evil step mother and her infatuated counterpart, but the extras, the fillers.
When I look at movies and review them I try to look at the movie and it entertainment value. Does this movie keep my attention? Does it make me laugh? Do I get deep feeling of love or hate during the movie. Well, I have to say that I got every emotion that I previously described out of this movie. I got hate when Nathaniel, the evil princes’ minion, kept trying to dispose of Giselle, the prince true love. I felt happiness when the prince came to rescue Giselle. I felt nervousness when I thought the prince would never find Giselle. But the strongest feeling of all came when Queen Narissa was introduced as the evil step mother who did not want to give up her throne.Enchanted had a lot of ups and downs. But the movie kept on movie me along. I did not find any parts that I just lost interest in. This is also a movie that the whole family will enjoy. Not just the children but all the adults should enjoy this one. This is definitely a rent or buy. For me I chose to buy it, especially since it is a Disney movie. They tend to pull these off the rack after a while and I did not want to miss having this one in my collection.
Popularity: 8% [?]
