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Rise of the Guardians (2012)

8.0 (41 Ratings) Rate It

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Generation after generation, immortal Guardians like Santa Claus (Alec Baldwin), the Easter Bunny...

Cate Blanchett recommended The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales in Books (curated)

"I read this in drama school. It's an analysis from a psychologist's perspective of the meaning and power of fairy tales. One example that sticks in my mind is the metaphor of a child going into the forest. Bettelheim makes the point that the structure of this story parallels children's experiences in life — how you can be frightened but eventually make it through to the other side. One can feel expendable — particularly in this day and age, and especially working in film — and for me, this reinforces the power of storytelling and the necessity of it."

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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) in Movies

Sep 21, 2020

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

2009 | Animation, Comedy, Family

7.5

(50 Ratings)

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Still hilarious as hell. Its breakneck energy, spastic animation, and frenetic joke-ifying forever influenced the current playing field for fast-paced children's blockbusters such as The Lego Movie(s) and its subsequent clones - good or ill. The inescapable hype around this back in the day was totally deserved because we'd seldom really seen anything like this at the time, and it's truly sad this is looked upon less fondly today just because it isn't as revolutionary as it once seemed. It still very much is imo, and how can one even try to deny that voice cast and role subversion?

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Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Duck Duck Goose (2018) in Movies

Sep 25, 2019

Duck Duck Goose (2018)

2018 | Animation, Comedy, Family

4.8

(5 Ratings)

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A bachelor goose must form a bond with two lost ducklings as they journey south.

This may have dented my love of children's films just a little bit.

A cat with a split personality and some fairly difficult to love characters were only part of my problem with this film. It was a predictable and not nearly entertaining enough to make up for that fact.

However the worst bit was the opening sequence. Everything is done so fast that it's almost impossible to work out what is actually going on, and worse for me, it set off my motion sickness.

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Naughty Bear

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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The game is set in the 1980s, fictional paradisal island of Perfection Island, where teddy bears...

Sam (228 KP) rated Toy Story 4 (2019) in Movies

May 29, 2020

Toy Story 4 (2019)

2019 | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi

8.2

(89 Ratings)

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Inner Struggles of Characters

Playful Story

Sweet End to a Long Tale

The biggest reason why Toy Story is so successful is the masterful way they take adult topics and address them in fun loving children's films. This film was no different and turned out to be a beautiful closing to the overall franchise... If they actually choose to leave it be. I couldn't help but feel as though this film was made for the children who originally watched Toy Story as a kid, watching our toys also grow and move on without us.