At first, I was unsure how they were going to make this work. I mean Batman was the best part of The LEGO Movie. How can you make a whole film entirely around him? It’s like making a Happy Days spin-off about Fonzie. Sure, it sounds good on paper, but he’s really best when he’s bouncing off the other characters ( Read more... )

Lau Xing (Jackie Chan) steals a jade Buddha from the Bank of England and poses as a valet to make his escape. Eccentric inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) hires him, mostly because he needs someone to test pilot his inventions. When Fogg presents his findings to a council of scientists, he’s almost laughed out of the room. He makes a bet with ( Read more... )

My daughter talked me into watching this. I told her I really didn’t feel like it. Then she said, “But daddy, it stars several famous internet cats”. I mean how can anyone turn THAT down? I guess I don’t have to tell you that she loved every minute of it ( Read more... )

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Kubo is a small boy who is on a quest to find his father’s suit of armor. He is pursued by his sinister aunts and evil grandfather, who have murdered his parents and plucked out one of his eyes. Kubo is a hard kid to keep down though. Protected by a talking monkey and a beetle samurai, Kubo begins to perfect his living origami technique (which ( Read more... )

I loved the ‘90s Batman cartoon when it first came out, but I had pretty much tuned out by the time it made its leap to the big screen in the form of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. I initially turned my nose up at it because I thought it was going to be nothing more than a feature length episode of the animated series. Well, more than two ( Read more... )

While people sleep, good guys throw what look to be raspberries into the ears to make them have good dreams. The bad guys, led by Synonamess Botch, like to use vulture-like creatures to drop “nightmare bombs” on the populace. When Synonamess steals the magical “Cosmic Clock”, Ralph the “All-Purpose Animal” and his slapstick buddy set out to stop ( Read more... )

Full disclosure time, boys and girls: I have never seen Finding Nemo. I have told many people this in the past week or so and you wouldn’t believe the looks I get. I have a good reason for that though. You see, back when that movie came out, I worked at (and still work at) a place that had a large aquarium filled with goldfish and every day ( Read more... )

I was a rabid gamer growing up, but Ratchet and Clank was a little bit after my time. I never played it and really don’t know that much about it to be honest. Knowing nothing about the game in question has never stopped me from watching a video game movie before though (see any of my Uwe Boll reviews ( Read more... )