#Family Films | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

arconinternet · 3 months

Text

Adventures in Dinosaur City, or, Dinosaurs the Movie (Video, 1991)

You can watch it here.

Ignore the content warning; it applies to at least one of the other movies in the list below the video.

15 notes · View notes

kevinsreviewcatalogue · 4 months

Text

Review: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

Rated PG for action/violence, rude humor/language, and some scary moments

Score: 5 out of 5

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is a movie I missed last year, which made it kind of annoying to hear so many people praising it to the heavens as one of the best animated films in years, not least of all because I'm the kind of guy who does not like spoilers. Flying down to Florida just in time to share a house with three little kids over Christmas break gave me the perfect opportunity to check it out, and the only thing I'm disappointed about is not seeing it sooner. It doesn't reinvent the wheel or have any pretensions of being a particularly revelatory movie, but it's still an outstandingly well-put-together one in everything from the animation to the characters to the humor to the mayhem. Putting it side-by-side with Shrek, the film that put DreamWorks Animation in the spotlight and which this one is a sequel to a spinoff of, shows just how much the studio has evolved in the twenty-plus years since then, going from mischievous, Looney Tunes-esque pop culture spoofs with barbs aimed directly at Disney to a kind of family-friendly, character-driven adventure comedy that's clearly inspired by the Mouse but still has enough unique style and dramatic edge to stand out. I don't really have much to add to the conversation on this one except to say that it's easily one of the best films that DreamWorks has ever made, especially given what I thought of the movie they released just eight months before this, and one that I expect to stick around as a classic just like Shrek itself.

Set in a fantasy/fairy-tale version of Spain, our eponymous protagonist is an intelligent cat who has exploited his nine lives to become an adventurer who doesn't fear death... at least, not until he loses his eighth life thanks to his carelessness fighting a monster attacking a town. Suddenly, he no longer feels so invincible, especially once he encounters a mysterious wolf bounty hunter who seeks to claim his ninth and final life after watching him squander his previous eight. Going into retirement in an elderly cat lady's home after burying his sword and gear, Puss is dragged back to the world of adventure when Goldilocks, the thuggish leader of the Three Bears Crime Family (guess who her "enforcers" are), seeks to hire him to find the Wishing Star, a magical rock that would grant one wish to whoever discovers it -- and she won't take no for an answer. Puss decides that this star is his key to regaining his nine lives, and with help from an old flame named Kitty Softpaws, he sets out to find it himself, staying one step ahead of Goldilocks, the evil businessman "Big" Jack Horner who wants it for his own ends, and of course, the Wolf.

The look of the film is one of the most immediately striking things about it. While it's not the first film to use cel shading to make computer animation emulate the look of hand-drawn animation while being distinct from both (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Mitchells vs. the Machines did something similar recently), it's going for a different set of influences than those films, its look instead resembling a mix of the fairy tale artwork that the Shrek movies have always spoofed and anime in the action scenes. The settings feel lifted almost from a highly stylized painting or storybook, while the action looks downright sublime, the film's characters doing battle, chasing one another, and facing various treacherous foes on their quest for the Wishing Star in all manner of awesome ways. Even as cats, Puss and Kitty came across as credible and cool adventure heroes, especially with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek Pinault leaning heavily into their live-action screen personas, Banderas playing Puss as a riff on Zorro where the only real "parody" element comes from his species and Hayek playing Kitty as the cool femme fatale who has history with the hero that they'll inevitably have to settle. Florence Pugh was hilarious doing her best gender-flipped Ray Winstone impression as Goldilocks, especially with the real Winstone himself voicing one of the three bears (alongside Olivia Colman and Samson Kayo), while John Mulaney made Horner into an absolute bastard who I couldn't wait to see get his well-deserved comeuppance. At first glance, with three separate groups of characters all racing for the Wishing Star, this film can feel sprawling, and yet it always manages to tie these three stories together in a way that feels organic.

The key to doing this was the Wolf. From the moment we're introduced to him, he's presented as a metaphorical representation of death itself, an impossibly skilled fighter who trounces and nearly kills Puss in their first encounter and who is seemingly unstoppable from that point onward, every meeting he has with Puss feeling like it could be their last. The film's comedy stops dead cold whenever the whistling announcing his arrival starts up, Wagner Moura's performance lending him an almost demonic menace without going over-the-top into cackling supervillainy. He is one of the best villains I've seen in any animated film in a long while, a no-nonsense monster whose evil combines the most terrifying elements of an unstoppable force of nature and somebody who hates you personally, the closest thing that a family film could come to an outright slasher movie villain. There have been many jokes made about this film having one of the most realistic depictions of a panic attack in any animated film, but watching it, it was no joke: I understood immediately how this guy completely disarmed Puss' suave, arrogant demeanor and left him a trembling wreck running for his life. The Wolf wasn't just scary, he was a perfect villain for Puss, a representation of how his wasted life is finally catching up with him, and watching Puss reach a place where he can finally confront the Wolf and turn the tables on him was immeasurably satisfying.

From this, we get a fairly simple moral that largely boils down to a celebration of living life to the fullest rather than either wasting it on hedonism or remaining stuck in an idealized past. It's nothing revolutionary, but not only is it exactly the kind of thing that the fairy tales this movie is sending up have long embraced, it's well-told enough that I fully bought into it. If the original Shrek was a deconstructive parody of fairy tales that sent up their moral messages while offering a few of its own, then this film serves largely as a more faithful, straightforward throwback to them, amped up with a swashbuckling action/adventure plot and some jokes for the parents but otherwise falling squarely within the modern, post-Kung Fu Panda DreamWorks wheelhouse.

The Bottom Line

It's a very straightforward movie once you get past the stylish animation, but hardly to a fault, as it's still a riotous, heartfelt, and just plain awesome ride that delivers exactly where it counts and doesn't overstay its welcome. Easily one of the best family films of the last ten years.

8 notes · View notes

cosmicgesture · 5 months

Text

i know people are saying the dub of the boy and the heron is bad but. it's really not.

#the boy and the heron #movies #studio ghibli #hayao miyazaki #films #family films #people say its bad an i'm just like- which part? point to it #is it the celebrity aspect? i hope not #rig rambles

19 notes · View notes

jessubear · 8 months

Text

Alakazam the Great, 1960, Japan

A re-telling of the classic Chinese fable, ‘Journey to the West’, Alakazam was one of the first anime films to be released in the US. Unfortunately Americans just weren’t ready for this type of media, despite the voice talents of then pop stars Frankie Avalon and Dodie Stevens; it was, however, well received in its native Japan. With the film’s villain, King Gruesome, going on to inspire the design of Mario’s nemesis, Bowser.

#alakazam the great #alakazam #anime #vintage anime #animation #family films

8 notes · View notes

ellie88-blog-blog · 5 months

Text

Have You Ever Heart the Story of the FIRST White Christmas?

Renowned for their stop-animation classics, Rankin/Bass released "The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow" in 1975. The story narrates a blind shepherd boy who aspires for a white Christmas, and his friendship with a girl named Louisa.

By the end of 1974, Rankin/Bass 17 TV specials in the span of 10 years; 7 of which were geared toward Christmas. Many of these specials becoming stop motion animated classics. Instead of resting on the reruns of beloved classics like “Frosty the Snow Man” and “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass release “The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow,”…

View On WordPress

#Angela Lansbury #Christmas #Cyril Ritchard #David Kelley #Family Films #Iris Rainer #Joan Gardner #Movie Review #musical #Rankin/Bass #The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow

2 notes · View notes

firstpersonnarrator · 1 year

Text

#spiller #the borrowers #robert sheehan #he even manages to look like he’s being all sexy on that motorbike even in that fit #yup that’s our boy nathan #family movie #family movies #family films #family film

2 notes · View notes

calvincell · 2 months

Text

Ever since I’ve been a kid, I’ve always been baffled by how sincerely popular & beloved E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) was & still is. I personally could never get past the fact that I thought ET was always ugly as sin & not in an endearing ugly-cute way like a pug or a sphinx cat might be considered but just flat out unpleasant to look at. Despite Spielberg’s best efforts, all of the sweet & maudlin moments in the film glanced off of me like a dustbunny thrown at a Sherman tank because I was fundamentally just repulsed by ET himself & thought he’d be a better fit for an alien horror film than cuddly lil’ creechur.

#et #et the extra terrestrial #et 1982 #et the extraterrestrial (1982)#et (1982)#steven spielberg #family films #aliens #family friendly #amblin entertainment #et the extraterrestrial #et the extra-terrestrial (1982)#et the extra-terrestrial #LOOK AT THIS DUDE #LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD #LOOK AT HIS LIPS

0 notes

llpodcast · 3 months

Audio

(Literary License Podcast)

The Iron Giant is a 1999 American animated science fiction film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and directed by Brad Bird in his directorial debut. It is based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes (which was published in the United States as The Iron Giant) and was written by Tim McCanlies from a story treatment by Bird. The film stars the voices of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, John Mahoney, Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald, and M. Emmet Walsh. Set during the Cold War in 1957, the film centers on a young boy named Hogarth Hughes, who discovers and befriends a giant alien robot. With the help of a beatnik artist named Dean McCoppin, Hogarth attempts to prevent the U.S. military and Kent Mansley, a paranoid federal agent, from finding and destroying the Giant.

Monster House is a 2006 American computer-animated haunted house film directed by Gil Kenan in his directorial debut and written by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler, about a neighborhood being terrorized by a sentient haunted house during Halloween. The film features the voices of Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin James, Nick Cannon, Jason Lee, Fred Willard, Jon Heder, Catherine O'Hara, and Kathleen Turner, as well as human characters being animated using live action motion capture animation, which was previously used in The Polar Express (2004). It was Sony's first computer animated film produced by Sony Pictures Imageworks.

Opening Credits; Introduction (1.23); Background History (28.13); The Iron Giant (1999) Trailer (30.06); Our Thoughts (32.33); Let's Rate (49.09); Introducing Our Second Feature (53.21); Monster House (2006) Film Trailer (55.09); Lights, Camera, Action (57.33); How Many Stars (1:15.07); End Credits (1:17.50); Closing Credits (1:18.22)

Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast.

All songs available through Amazon Music.

#SoundCloud #music #Literary License Podcast #Animation #Family Films #The Iron Giant #Monster House #Gil Kenan

0 notes

taytayb1993 · 4 months

Text

Happy Holidays, everyone, if y’all ask me what I’m doing for Christmas and Christmas Eve, I’m going to sit down or lay down, relax, and watch some iconic Christmas movies. As long as I can remember, I should watch my favorite Christmas films that I’ve watched when I was a child. I did watched Die Hard, but not in whole December, which I should watch it when I get a chance. I used to wonder how Die Hard is considered a Christmas movie until I just look it up. I guess it’s make sense. So, ok. Anyway, happy Holidays and Merry Christmas Eve, everyone, if you thought about watching Christmas films, I’d recommend these movies; here are the movie posters down there.

1 note · View note

sidlesara · 3 months

Photo

Addams Family Values (1993) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

#filmgifs #chewbacca #bbelcher #userrobin #moviegifs #userbru #addams family values #film #mine

5K notes · View notes

cassandragemini · 23 days

Text

its so crazy that for the last 5 years a small but annoyingly vocal online group has been acting like mob movies of all things are pretentious and inaccessible cinema. yeah the godfather is kinda slow but these are movies about criminals who shoot people

#that family guy bit is right it does insist upon itself but it has a valid point to insist etc etc #crow.txt #side note if you do wanna watch a good mob flick and the godfather was a bit too slow for you please watch goodfellas #its one of my favorite films of all time i love it so much #while i do like the godfather and i recognize how important it was for film history i like goodfellas a bit more

3K notes · View notes

qqueenofhades · 2 years

Note

Try to have some respect the queen just DIED. It's not like she was evil or anything

And why should I do that for the head of a family that oversaw the British Empire's legendarily brutal concentration camps in colonialist Kenya during the 1952-1960 Mau Mau rebellion, has personally and repeatedly shielded credibly accused rapist Prince Andrew and tried to get the scandal to go away, personally paid Andrew's financial settlement while the family treated Meghan Markle terribly and gave her none of the same protection, exerted a huge amount of control over UK public finances without any transparency or disclosure (while also receiving huge amounts of that money), got to personally edit laws according to her likes and dislikes, enjoyed sweeping legal immunities that are described as a "threat to UK democracy," is the most visible figurehead of British colonialism even as her descendants put on a horribly tone-deaf Caribbean tour (twice in one year!) that was basically about unreconstructed imperial imagery of the kind that is poisoning Britain, while the entire country buys into the fantasy that she is an impartial, uninvolved, kindly and benevolent grandmotherly figure....?

Nah.

#anonymous #ask #anyway royal family still trash film at 11 #history #british history #history of empire

52K notes · View notes

wookieonendor · 11 months

Text

Baltimore Screening Pass-palooza - "Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken!

Okay, so I I’m loving this movie based solely on this fan poster. You too? Sweet. Synopsis! Sweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before franchise) is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young-White, Ralph Breaks the Internet), who only seems to admire her for her…

View On WordPress

#Baltimore Screenings #Family Films #Free Screenings

0 notes

thetrashiestbaby · 9 months

Text

part 2

9K notes · View notes

ellie88-blog-blog · 5 months

Text

“Peter Pan” is the Perfect Child’s Fantasy

“Peter Pan” has always been one of my favorite stories. I’ve seen many renditions and was filled with joys when the 2010’s saw a boom in Peter Pan films and limited shows, some better than others, but I loved them, nonetheless. This is no exception to the 2003 “Peter Pan” film, made Released 50 years after the Disney animated film. This is a family adventure, fantasy extravaganza. It’s hard to…

View On WordPress

2 notes · View notes

sioboi · 24 days

Text

the guys in reservoir dogs: *wear suits*

me: chainsaw man reference

#drawings #csm #chainsaw man #hayakawa family #aki hayakawa #denji #power #reservoir dogs #film #movies #fanart #art #artists on tumblr

2K notes · View notes