Fantasia
★★★ Director: Norman Ferguson Year: 1940 Amazingly had never seen this. But I do remember it from college when people mentioned that you had to see this high, ...
Frozen
★★★ Director: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee Year: 2013 Another film that had such great promise and yet fell short. If they would have only cast Broadway singers/performers rather ...
Turbo
★★ Director: David Soren Year: 2013 This is one of those films where the overplay and media buy of trailers killed it before it even reached theaters. I ...
Monsters University
★★★ Director: Dan Scanlon Year: 2013 Since this is set during college times, I'm sure some of it is difficult for kids to understand. But the characters are ...
A Monster in Paris
★★★ Director: Bibo Bergeron Year: 2011 What an absolutely strange film. It mashes up The Fly and The Phantom of the Opera together in an animated kids film. ...
Hotel Transylvania
★★★★ Director: Genndy Tartakovsky Year: 2012 I wasn't quite sure what to expect from the trailers. But on a long flight to the west coast, I needed a ...
The Croods
★★★ Director: Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders Year: 2013 Another fun family film. I believe it's based on a game, which starts to make sense. There were some ...
The Iron Giant
★★★★★ Director: Brad Bird Year: 1999 Finally able to share this film with the kids. This must have been the 4th time I've seen it and it ages ...
The Lorax
★★★ Director: Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda Year: 2012 Interesting that I saw this without the kids. I loved the book ever since I first heard it during MacroEconomics ...
Brave
★★★ Director: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman Year: 2012 This is one of the few Pixar films that I've wanted to see and then was disappointed by. It ...
G-Force
★★ Director: Hoyt Yeatman Year: 2009 Oh yeah, I saw this with the kids. It's basically Jerry Bruckheimer for kids. This is the film he made for ...
Happy Feet Two
★★★ Director: George Miller Year: 2011 This was obviously with the kids. And it's great to have an excuse to watch a mind-numbing but entertaining film. There's ...
The Adventures of Ti
★★★ Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 2011 Visually, this film is unique and the camera movements and tracking are incredible. There's a gorgeous sequence where Tin Tin ...
The Jungle Book
★★★ Director: Wolfgang Reitherman Year: 1967 The beauty of having kids is watching all of the classics that I never saw as a kid. So this was ...
The Secret World of
★★★★ Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi Year: 2010 Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli fims are synonymous with great films, storytelling and animation. And this does not disappoint. Although, this ...
Cars 2
★★★ Director: John Lasseter, Brad Lewis Year: 2011 Definitely not as good as the original. Granted, this sequel was more about Mater than Lightning, maybe that's why. But ...
