Shrek den lykkelige (2010) Online Streaming

By the middle of the second act, Forever After finally finds its groove, becoming mildly amusing (the actors -- Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas -- are in fine form) but never rising to the inspired heights of the original.. The movie's bereftness of invention can be measured by how no story element builds on another. Instead, "Happy Feet Two" is plotted so that a bunch of disparate things happen, until it's time to end the movie.. Awesome as director this is the first ti...

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Alvin og de frække jordegern 2 (2009) Se Streaming

The earlier Alvin movie made more than $217 million just in the United States. It's hard to imagine this somewhat confused sequel doing as well.. Every minute of this action packed movie is amazing. This is the single best movie I have ever seen. All of the actors do great jobs at their roles from the villains to the side characters they all give convincing performances.. The slapstick required of everyone, animals or not, will exhaust even parents who remember the Chipmunks' original hits.. A m...

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Nanny McPhee med nye tryllerier (2010) Download Fuld

The movie feels small and flat.. . It can take a miracle to create a movie that's fun for kids and their parents. Luckily, Nanny McPhee has a little magic up her sleeve.. It's an enjoyable and attractive-looking film, but a little of that "Speed Racer" energy wouldn't have been such a bad thing.. The fresh and simple story will win its share of young fans, though it lacks the disturbing adult elements might have attracted older audiences.. Squeaky-clean but uninspired.. . The Secret World of Arr...

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Harry Potter og Fønixordenen (2007) Fuld Streaming

The tone is uneven and more often morose than joyful. The pacing is slow and at times almost tedious. The end result is something that feels like it was put together from a jumble of Disney cliches tacked onto the skeleton of Beauty and the Beast.. Brought me straight back to one of the most enduring of childhood feelings: boredom.. Director David Yates, who is new to the Potter franchise, moves the story along briskly, at the expense of texture and nuance.. The whole Hogwarts faculty is so beau...

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Toy Story 3 (2010) Download Film

Whenever it hits its stride, it's a well-acted, vividly executed, full-speed-ahead special-effects extravaganza that puts as much bang as possible into every remaining scene.. Kloves has streamlined J. K. Rowling's 700-plus-page opus into cinematic fighting form. And the special effects, which threatened to overwhelm the first two movies, are seamlessly integrated.. Toy Story 3 succeeds not because of its glossy and gleaming high-tech pixels, but rather because it is so well-written that you cou...

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Arthur og Minimoyserne (2006) Spille Streaming

Everything about the idea of "Mr. Popper's Penguins" sounds lovely, and everything about the actual movie is ugly.. Now that we've made one of the best computer-generated talking-animal-on-an-odyssey movies in the brief but busy history of the genre, can we please, please move on?. Luc Besson has made a fair share of artfully bad movies. Arthur and the Invisibles -- half-live-action, half-CG kid's adventure -- is (by a hair) more bad-bad, like The Fifth Element, than good-bad, like The Big Blue....

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Charlie og Chokoladefabrikken (2005) Spille Streaming

The fourth installment (yes, it never ends) in the series about the little wizard with the round glasses grows so violent and ghoulish that it drains the appeal of stories that are best when they stay innocuous.. The gags are all of a piece, right up to the forlorn yet enchanting finale.. It's too heavy. It's too bitter. And it's definitely got too many nuts.. What will allow the remaining films to prosper, is the words that we hear at the start, from an elderly caretaker: "Bloody kids.". The re...

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Catching Faith (2015) Fuld Film Streaming

Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. Awesome as director this is the first time that they have been together agai...

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Polar-Ekspressen (2004) Se Fuld Film

Its heart is in the right place, and its bell should ring for many enchanted children in its audience.. A failed and lifeless experiment in which everything goes wrong.. Not only do Van Allsburg's darkly magical illustrations come to glorious life in the film; so, too, do his familiar words.. Another powerful children's story dulled into mediocrity by the worship of technology.. A train wreck of mind-numbing proportions.. Simple and evocative, yet teeming with intriguing visual effects.. A truly...

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Harry Potter og flammernes pokal (2005) Spille Film

Screenwriter Kloves deserves a tip of the wizard's hat for cutting Rowling's immense tome (636 pages) down to size, and for keeping the story moving despite a surfeit of characters and incidents.. The special effects are first rate but I think it's always going to be about the characters. And they're great characters.. A marked disappointment after Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this fourth installment in the franchise is a 157-minute holding pattern.. In its last third, The Goblet of...

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Op (2009) Online Streaming

Big, dull and empty.. No sequelitis here, kids (and grown-ups) -- this franchise is alive and well.. Up, the latest lovely fantasy from the artists at Disney's Pixar animation, it's a truly fantastic adventure -- a lighter-than-air daydream about a cranky widower, a chubby boy and their amazing journey.. An attempt to steal some of Harry Potter's thunder that also stands on its own as a well-made large-scale adventure that works well enough to entertain the teens it's hoping to strike.. Once aga...

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Percy Jackson & Lyntyven (2010) Fuld Streaming

You don't even have to be familiar with the first book in Rick Riordan's popular fantasy series to enjoy Chris Columbus' energetic adaptation.. No sequelitis here, kids (and grown-ups) -- this franchise is alive and well.. This is a kids' movie: Parents can either get into the silly-suspenseful spirit of it or play Rummikub on their iPhones.. Much of what made the first film so enchanting remains firmly in place, from the strong ensemble performances through Stuart Craig's magnificent production...

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Bedtime Stories (2008) Download Film

The first 20 minutes of this competently animated kids' adventure are entertaining enough. But thereafter, the plot fractures, the pace goes into overdrive and the jokes wear thin.. Those other Adam Sandler comedies? Turns out they were the grown-up efforts.. The twitchy anxiety that once powered his persona has given way to a doughy anonymity.. The storytelling is economical and brisk. In some ways, Waters approaches it more as a pre-teen horror movie.. It keeps moving forward, even if you're n...

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Manolos magiske rejse (2014) Se Streaming

This Pixar knockoff from 20th Century Fox is more imaginative than most, though like far too many of them, it's undone by a surfeit of glib one-liners and pop culture references.. "The Book of Life" is a flawed but intriguing new chapter in animation.. "The Book of Life" juxtaposes overwrought visual imagery with an undernourished, familiar story - regrettable flaws in one of the few animated films to focus on Latino characters and the rich heritage of Mexican folk culture.. The characters move ...

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ParaNorman (2012) Se Fuld Film

. A silly movie that's essentially a series of cliches strung together into a semblance of a movie.. The planet-hopping children have special talents -- telekinesis, telepathy etc. -- although it is the high-wattage lovability of Mr. Rock that's the real superpower on display here.. ParaNorman, blessed with otherworldly animation, can't escape the demons of story.. O.M.G! This movie is SO BAD!. The spirit of great stop-motion animators like George Pal and Ray Harryhausen lives on in ParaNorman, ...

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Bratz (2007) Online Streaming

Modest and diverting, rough and bland, with some good (if not quite Bette Davis caliber) actors and so-so special effects.. Others who watch with more sense than adoration will likely be dumbfounded by the venal messages of pettiness and possession that the movie honors above all else.. The planet-hopping children have special talents -- telekinesis, telepathy etc. -- although it is the high-wattage lovability of Mr. Rock that's the real superpower on display here.. Bratz is a disappointment bec...

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The Hollars (2015) Fuld Film Streaming

Every minute of this action packed movie is amazing. This is the single best movie I have ever seen. All of the actors do great jobs at their roles from the villains to the side characters they all give convincing performances.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from th...

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En Grimm Historie (2006) Download Fuld

By rights The Kid should be dreadful. Surprisingly enough, it often soars to heights of not bad.. Strictly for small fry.. Tthis CG-animated adaptation of the Japanese comic classic feels derivative but moderately entertaining, particularly in some of the highflying visuals.. While new times deserve new tales, this ground has already been trodden -- twice -- by a more memorable ogre than any you'll find in Ella's enchanted forest.. Essentially a brash comedy taking one idea as far as it can go, ...

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Nim's Island (2008) Fuld Film Streaming

A slapdash amalgam of competing visual and storytelling styles, bizarre acting, egregious product placement (particularly for National Geographic) and negative stereotypes.. It's a wondrous and warmhearted adventure story with some nifty special effects and some first-rate performances.. A sweet-natured family adventure film that should be quite popular with the grade-school girls at which it's aimed.. The movie is not particularly rewarding for adults or children who believe that even a tale of...

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Ratatouille (2007) Se Fuld Film

A lot of animated movies have inspired sequels, notably Shrek, but Brad Bird's Ratatouille is the first one that made me positively desire one.. Ratatouille doesn't center on the over-familiar surfaces of contemporary life. It harks back to Disney's older era, when cartoons seemed part of a more elegant world with less edgy characters.. This delicious tale of a rat who cooks is pure joy, a grand achievement -- one of the most beautiful animated pictures ever made.. Arguably the finest 'toon in t...

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