CATS & DOGS — THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE provides a sticky conundrum for those wishing to review it. On the one hand, the plotting is obvious, the jokes moreso, and the platitudes cloying. On the other hand, it is a harmless flick that the youngest members of its target audience have found enchanting at… Read More »
BROTHER BEAR
You can’t fault Disneys latest animated film, BROTHER BEAR, for the message it wants to send to all the kiddies out there. That would be a philosophy of respect for all nature’s creatures and of taking responsibility for your own actions are both worthy lessons. Alas, the execution is 90% generic and 100% unfunny. The story… Read More »
CHICKEN LITTLE
CHICKEN LITTLE begins with a narrator struggling to come up with a way to get things started. This, we are told, is not your usual sort of animated kid’s film, and so none of the usual openings, say leafing through a storybook, will do. And the wonderful part of that is that it doesn’t begin… Read More »