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Originally posted by The_Return
Maybe it's just because I dont watch very many kids movies, but I quite enjoyed this one. Good characters, a few laughs, half-decent plot...I thought it was pretty fun.
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i'm very tough on kids movies ... i have to watch them all so i get pissed when i see a lazy effort.
most of them try to be too hip .. hollywood doesnt understand hip - or very few people there do.
my benchmark for recent kids films are as follows :
Monsters Inc
Toy Story 1
Toy Story 2
A Bugs Life
Shrek
Shrek 2
Ice Age (#1 only)
.. pretty much in that order.
if movies dont measure up to these films i have no time for them ...
very few kids movies make the grade. they're made thinking that kids dont give a shit about quality - just amp up the 'krazy-kooky' action and the kids will eat it up.
they forget that kids are smarter now, and they also forget about the $$$ to be made if the films are also smart enough for adults.
(i dont mean one or 2 'clever' references .. i mean the whole structure of the film)
so yeah ... maybe i unfairly compare everything with my favorites in mind - but it happens naturally - like in any other genre.
for the record .. Hoodwinked was pretty damn close to the class of these films ..