Posted on July 1, 2014 at 5:59 pm
Top talent is wasted in this un-funny and disappointing vanity production from Melissa McCarthy and her husband, Ben Falcone. They wrote it, or, more accurately, assembled it from pieces of other films, some better (“Thelma and Louise”), some even worse (McCarthy’s own “Identity Thief”). Falcone directed the film and appears as a fast food restaurant …
Posted on July 1, 2014 at 5:55 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | 4th - 6th Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for some action and peril, and mild language |
| Profanity: | Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | References to kissing |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Sci-fi-style action and peril |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | July 3, 2014 |
| Date Released to DVD: | October 20, 2014 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B00MHIKRVA |
Three kids go on a wild adventure and make an extra-terrestrial friend in this updated take on films like “E.T.” and “The Goonies.” It being 2014, that means that the found footage genre, pioneered in “The Blair Witch Project” and featured in adult thrillers like “Paranormal Activity” and “Cloverfield,” has permeated family film as …
Posted on July 1, 2014 at 8:00 am
Always brought in Lauren Greenfield, is an award-winning American artist, and documentary photographer and filmmaker, to create their #likeagirl videos. What do we think of when we hear “throw like a girl,” “run like a girl,” or “fight like a girl?” What do we want our daughters to think?
Posted on June 30, 2014 at 3:54 pm
One of the questions I get asked most often is why parents in movies for children are always dead or otherwise out of the picture. As I wrote in my book, The Movie Mom’s Guide to Family Movies: This is often much more troubling for parents than for kids, though some children will ask what …
Posted on June 30, 2014 at 12:49 pm
I might have to suspend my rule against lip-synch scenes in movies for this one.
