Category: Children’s Movies
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Movie Review – Nimona
Nimona is a gem of a movie that hits all the right marks. Fast-paced Funny Fantastic morality story (unless you’re homophobic, and then maybe not so much.) Fun antics for young kids Lots of subtle jokes for adults What more can you ask for? Oh, right. Really good voice acting by Chloë Grace Moretz (Nimona) and…
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RunPee Transformers Hub
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Transformers is one of those franchises that passed me by. Too old to be interested when it started and didn’t have any children that were interested in it later on. However, that hasn’t stopped it becoming one of the highest grossing media franchises of all time with an income in excess of ¥2 trillion ($25…
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish If you want to smile and feel jaunty, this is for you
As this is my last day in the UK with Rob, our RunPee correspondent over there, and I was excited to see a relaxing, soothing movie with himself and Alice (his cute granddaughter). I was thrilled with Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. After a stream of somewhat disappointing movies over my UK journey (The Fabelmans,…
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Movie Review – The Amazing Maurice
It’s the end of the Christmas holidays. My good lady wife and I find ourselves tasked with looking after our granddaughter, Alice. Alice is nine, going on 36, and starting to hit that time of life when you need to check everything; she gets annoyed if we park in a “Parent and Child” slot, insists…
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Rewatch Review – Toy Story 2
A couple of years later and along comes the inevitable sequel. But was Toy Story 2 so unavoidable? To be honest, there seemed to be some doubts amongst the powers that be at Disney. Initial plans were that Toy Story 2 was to be a straight to VHS release…it was the last millennium, after all,…
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Rewatch Review – Toy Story 3
And so we come to the conclusion of the Toy Story saga…at least that was the plan at the time. Andy has grown up; he’s now seventeen and about to head to college. Obviously the toys are now accustomed to being neglected. The ones that remain are left in a cupboard but, with Andy’s imminent…
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Movie Review – Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania
A solid B movie in terms of animation values, high-quality celebrity voices, low-key warm humor, and a fun direction the plot spins off into. It’s damn hard to get a franchise right in every iteration, but somehow the under-the-radar work in the Hotel Translyvania oeuvre manages to make a good little story each time. They aren’t up…
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Non-Christmas Christmas Films: Home Alone 2 – Lost in New York (1992)
It’s another Christmas, a year later, and young Kevin is lost again. I’m not sure if there’s some intensely bad parenting involved, or if the kid just attracts trouble, but so it goes. It’s basically Die Hard 2, with a ten-year-old, and everyone in-universe pretty much knows it. “Not again” is the theme, which I…
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Classic Christmas Rewatch – Home Alone (1990)
So I’ve been thinking about my favorite Christmas movie category – the ones I call Non-Christmas Christmas Films. This fun category includes such classics as Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, and Gremlins. Iron Man 3. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I have a useful list going here. But in that post, I ask if Home Alone deserves…
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Groundhog Day Themed Mouse Movie – Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas
Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas is three short animated films, stacked together to make a slightly longer short… one hour and six minutes. The first part is the one we’re mainly interested in, features Donald Duck and family, and is called Donald Duck: Stuck On Christmas. The second stars Goofy and family in A Very…
