I’m always looking for movies about awesome women that I can force my daughters to watch, so of course I said “we” would review Amelia, which came out on dvd on February 2nd. Since this site is supposed to be all about what the kids thought, I’ll just tell you that Lena (10), Liberty (10), and Maya (6) were only interested in the scenes in which Amelia was flying. Amelia’s love life was heavily featured and just not interesting to them at this point, and that made them miss the point about Amelia’s courage and strength. We’ll keep it on hand for when the girls are older and can appreciate the many facets of a strong woman’s life, including the “disgusting kissing.”
Get ready for the release of season 1 of “Glee”! It’s coming out on December 29th, featuring the first 13 episodes, the director’s cut of the pilot episode, exclusive behind-the-scenes featurettes, and audition videos from the cast.
Exciting, right? Watch “Slushie Jam” and get even more excited:
Disney is releasing Hannah Montana: The Movie on Blu-Ray and DVD, and Pete’s Dragon: High Flying Edition on DVD on August 18th. I’m not a big Hannah Montana fan, but I guess the movie was cool. Basically, in the movie, she can’t be both Hannah Montanna and Miley Cyrus at the same time. Ginger and Maya liked it a lot, but Maya didn’t want to do the review. I guess she didn’t have to because she’s only 5.
I haven’t watched Pete’s Dragon yet so all I know is that there is a dude named Pete and he has a dragon, and I think the dragon’s name is Elliot. It’s a very old movie. It might be good. I think people who like really old movies would like this one. I guess I might like it because I liked Marry Poppins…I don’t know…
Coraline is a 3-d movie about a girl whose parents ignore her and are very boring, then she finds her “other mother” and thinks she is exciting and fun but she’s not, she is actually very creepy and evil. And the other mother kidnaps, or should I say adultnaps, Coraline’s parents and Coraline has to try to defeat the other mother to get her parents back. The only special feature was the commentary by the director, Henry Selick, and composer, Bruno Coulais.
The movie is based on the book called Coraline by Neil Gaiman. I reviewed that here. I liked the movie better except for the part where Wybie saves the day. In the book, Coraline does it all by herself.
A super interesting and cool thing about the movie is how small everything is. Here’s a video that shows how tiny:
And here is my favorite creepy trailer for the movie. It’s Neil Gaiman!
Coraline comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray tomorrow, July 21st.
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I’m always looking for movies about awesome women that I can force my daughters to watch, so of course I said “we” would review Amelia, which came out on dvd on February 2nd. Since this site is supposed to be all about what the kids thought, I’ll just tell you that Lena (10), Liberty (10), and Maya (6) were only interested in the scenes in which Amelia was flying. Amelia’s love life was heavily featured and just not interesting to them at this point, and that made them miss the point about Amelia’s courage and strength. We’ll keep it on hand for when the girls are older and can appreciate the many facets of a strong woman’s life, including the “disgusting kissing.”
