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The Lost And Found Family

21 Oct

When her husband dies unexpectedly, a high society woman is forced to give up her lavish estate, and plots to sell the rural Georgia abode that she still owns the title to, but is currently being used as a Foster home.

Ester Hobbes’ life of luxury was a transparent fallacy, a hard truth that she isn’t quite ready to accept upon discovering that her late husband died without a dollar to his name.

Instantaneously rendered homeless and penniless, Ester begins drawing up plans to sell the one asset she still possesses – a weather beaten Georgia home that’s currently housing a handful of unwanted adolescents.

;) magic

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Shrek The Halls

29 Nov

This is what Shrek the third should have been.

High on comedy, magic soundtrack and a nice little moral at the end.

This is a wonderful holiday special that will no doubt be added to our family holiday rotation. In the plus column it was completely family friendly. nice ;)

A Shrek-style Christmas, as funny as it gets! The Christmas  tree isn’t the  only thing green  in this  new holiday classic. :P

Shrek is back and trying  to get  into the spirit of the season.

After promising Fiona and the kids a Christmas they’ll remember, he  is forced to take a  crash course in the holiday.

enjoy! ;) magic

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Director
Gary Trousdale

Writers
Gary Trousdale
Sean Bishop

Release Date
24 December 2007 (UK) 

Genre
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

28 Nov

This film moves at a fast enough pace to keep all ages happy.

It reveals the era of the Depression with total respect for the people of the era.

The film takes the high road in which moral decisions are clearly understood.

There is also a mystery and it is interesting.

All the acting is fine and there are a great variety of actors of all ages.

This film reminds me that movies are not suppose to be aimed at one particular age group in order to improve ticket sales.

This is just a good old fashioned movie.

10 year old Kit lives in a boarding house her parents own in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has a passion for writing, & dreams of having something of hers put in the local paper someday.

;) magic

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Director
Patricia Rozema

Writers
Ann Peacock
Valerie Tripp

Release Date
2 July 2008 (USA)

Genre
Drama | Family | Mystery

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Space Chimps

28 Nov

Every scene was so rushed that the characters and their dynamics with each other lacked any real development, and every attempt at making the audience feel what was going on in the moment (or even caring at all) was murdered by this fact.

Obviously, I don’t need to say much more about the writing quality than I already have; it was just lazy, lazy, lazy.

Ham III, the grandson of the first chimp astronaut, is blasted off into space by an opportunity-seeking senator.

Soon, the fun-loving chimp has to get serious about the mission at hand: Rid a far-away planet of their nefarious leader.

have fun! ;) magic

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Director
Kirk De Micco

Writers
Kirk De Micco
Robert Moreland

Release Date
1 August 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi

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Christmas in Wonderland

28 Nov

I haven’t seen this, so personally can’t comment on it.

It’s turning out to be a pretty rotten Christmas for the Saunders family.

Having just moved to a new city from Los Angeles, they have no friends, no money and, with the exception of the bright-eyed Mary, no Christmas spirit.

To make matters worse, their mother is stuck in L.A., stranded by airline overbookings.

;) magic

Christmas In Wonderland

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Director
James Orr

Writers
Wanda Birdsong Shope
James Orr

Release Date
27 December 2007 (Russia) 

Genre
Comedy | Family

Tagline
Two kids, a mall, a million in cash, …what could go wrong?

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Bolt

21 Nov

Disney has done nothing but pump out rehashed ideas in the form of inane sequels to classics loved by my generation or weak under developed characters.

Well not this time.

Bolt the “super” dog was full of funny and emotional characters the likes of which Disney has not produced in a while.

When the canine star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet – a cross-country journey through the real world.

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Directors
Byron Howard
Chris Williams

Writers
Dan Fogelman
Chris Williams

Release Date
13 February 2009 (UK) 

Genre
Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy 

Tagline
A hero is unleashed 2008.

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City Of Ember

20 Nov

Easily the most impressive piece of the City of Ember puzzle is the delightfully ominous science-fiction visuals.

The massive sets were built in Northern Ireland in the shipyard-turned-soundstage of the location the Titanic was actually constructed in (now the largest soundstage in the world) and it’s never more apparent than in the beautiful crane shots through the underground city.

The CG elements are also top-notch, but the practical effects flawlessly immerse the audience in the fantasy world of pipeworks and generators.

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights.

But Ember’s once powerful generator is failing … and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Something needs done.

enjoy! ;) magic

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Director
Gil Kenan

Writers
Caroline Thompson
Jeanne Duprau

Release Date
10 October 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Adventure | Family | Fantasy 

Tagline
Discover The Secret

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Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa

12 Nov

When it started up I was immediately sucked in, and I never became uninterested and it never stopped entertaining, because they did an excellent job at keeping your attention.

There were some parts in the movie where I felt as if they tried too hard to please the audience and then others it got a little dumb and boring, but overall I laughed I almost cried and when it was over I wanted to watch it again. ;)

It’s a great sequel to a great movie and I enjoyed watching it as much as the first.

It’s fantastic ;) , you must see it.

The sequel of the first movie, the New York Zoo Animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, still stranded on Madagascar, started to leave the island.

All of a sudden, they landed in the wilderness of Africa.

have fun! ;) magic

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Directors
Eric Darnell
Tom McGrath

Writer
Etan Cohen

Release Date
5 December 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family 

Tagline
The crate escape

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Wall-E

04 Nov

The best way to describe the film is as a science fiction, comedy, dramatic love story.

Wall-E, as a character, has dimension, personality, and heart.

Pretty impressive given that he is essentially a trash compactor.

It is true that there is little dialogue in this feature, but personally I did not feel it detracted from the story at all.

After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve.

Eve comes to realize that Wall-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans.

have fun! ;) magic

Wall-E

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Director
Andrew Stanton

Writers
Andrew Stanton
Pete Docter

Release Date
18 July 2008 (UK)

Genre
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi 

Tagline
An Adventure Beyond the Ordinar-E

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High School Musical 3: Senior Year

28 Oct

High School Musical 3

The movie starts out well enough with great dance sequences and cute jokes but as the movie goes on it starts to fizzle out.

The dances and sets are amazing but that is to be expected because it is on the big big screen but the acting and plot leaves little to the imagination.

The break out stars have to be Zac and Ashley but I was disappointed that Ashely was not given a bigger role and the movie focused more on Troy and Gabriella.

The plot lacked drama and stayed on one flat line instead of taking the audience on a ride

It’s a good movie but I still think the best on is the original which is the case in most movie franchises.

have fun dancing! ;) magic

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Director
Kenny Ortega

Writers
Peter Barsocchini

Release Date
22 October 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance

Tagline
high school graduation

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