I went into Toy Story 4 thinking it really didn’t need to exist. Toy Story 3 was a perfectly good send-off to the series, packing an emotional punch and a conclusion that reminded us all we have to grow up … Continue reading
Also checked out the thoroughly unnecessary family animated comedy The Secret Life of Pets 2. Unnecessary because they barely tried, not because the movie shouldn’t exist. The first film was a low-key alright of a flick about what our pets … Continue reading
Checked out the new kids animated flick UglyDolls for some abstract reason. Maybe to hatewatch, maybe with a glimmering hope for a decent animated flick that doesn’t have the name Disney or Pixar on it. Uglydolls starts out as … Continue reading
Also checked out the new Laikia-produced animated film Missing Link. Laika is a studio that makes mostly stop-motion pictures that I should like… but never really do. So I didn’t go into this one with high hopes. Missing Link … Continue reading
Went to see the new kids animated flick Wonder Park. A weird title since the park in the movie is Wonderland… but they can’t name the movie Wonderland since that suggests Lewis Carroll. But then why not call the park … Continue reading
How to Train Your Dragon (3): The Hidden World is the least of the series, but it’s still not a bad film. Just a little slow, just a little disappointing… and somehow the end of a trilogy? So the … Continue reading
Also rented (after missing it… but not REALLY missing it… at the theater) the kids animated click Smallfoot. I fully admit to expecting to hate this silly looking film with a terrible trailer… but in the middle of hate-watching it, … Continue reading
Caught an early showing of the new Marvel animated film Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse. This is not in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is not directly related to the recent Spiderman: Homecoming (though it could be due to the introduction … Continue reading
So Ralph Breaks the Internet is the sequel to Wreck-It Ralph, a movie they take pains to mention twice is now six years old. Regardless of how good or bad Ralph Breaks the Internet is, the fact the first movie … Continue reading
So… The new animated film version of The Grinch is, at least, better than the Jim Carrey version. I mean, on the graduated scale of badness, it’s a few notches in the positive column. You just have to ask if … Continue reading