Seven Pounds

Tabi says: 4 stars

A beautiful tragedy. Definitely a tragedy...but well-made and very well acted. Supporting actress, Rosario Dawson, was great and played well off of Will Smith.

Night at the Museum

Tabi says: 3.5 stars

Amazingly, I haven't seen this one until recently. Fun family movie. Parts had me rolling.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Tabi says: 2.5 stars

Fun family movie. Had Liam glued which is saying a lot being that it's not animated. Cheesy, but not overly. Probably a fun movie to watch 3D, you could tell where they were trying to draw attention to it.

North by Northwest

Tabi says: 4 stars

Engaging plotline and well-acted. Very enjoyable, but more risque than I expected. No wonder it's a classic. Definitely deserved.

High School Musical 3

Tabi says: 2.5 stars

Watched it with our neices, and I liked it better than I thought I would. Choreography is better than either of the other two HSMs. Catchy songs. Fun to watch with a certain crowd...say 4-15 year old girls.

Kit Kittridge

Will says: 1 star

Slow moving and predictable. The climax never really came.

Tabi says: 2 stars

Predictable even for a kids' movie. Costumes were fun.

Madagascar 2

Will says: 3 stars

Fun. The animation is better than the original, and so is the story. There are a lot of fun laughs here - if you're into CG animals running around Africa.

Tabi says: 3.5 stars

Better than the first. Funny and entertaining. Little too much of the old lady, but overall, I really liked watching this as a family.

12 Monkeys

Will says: 3 stars

Viewed Edited.

One of the finest performances from Brad Pitt I've ever scene, though not the best from Bruce Willis. The movie is a little bizarre, but it's entertaining.

Tabi says: 3 stars

Ditto.

Wanted

Will says: 1 star

Viewed Edited.

The special effects are amazing... but that's where the amazingness ends. The rest is left still 'wanting' more.

Tabi says: 0.25 stars

Fantastic special effects...that's about it.

Tale of Despereaux

Will says: 2.5 stars

The movie has good points and bad points. I appreciated some of the imagery, and I enjoyed Matthew Brodrick's performance as a mouse (hasn't he been a mouse before), but the story was a tad slow.

Sigourney Weaver destroyed the narration. She keeps piping in a random times explaining to the audience what we should be learning - and it becomes agitating after a while.

However, the animation isn't unreasonable for this day in age, and there are some fun story elements. I think it would be a good watch for older children (5-10 years old).

Tabi says: 2.5 stars

I haven't actually read the book, but I have the feeling this was just a poor movie adaptation. Would have been better narrated by Julie Andrews. I also would rather have had the movie teach me a moral than have had the narrator explain it constantly.