Horton Hears a Who

Finally, a talking animal movie that isn't ridiculous!

When Horton the Elephant finds a speck of dust calling out for help, he knows that he must protect it, despite the disdain of all the other jungle animals. But when the evil kangaroo hires Vlad the Vulture to go get rid of the speck, Horton's journey to put the speck of Whoville in a safe place becomes more dangerous, (and more humorous for us viewers), than he could ever have imagined.

When we went to go see this film, we picked up two friends, (one about nine and the other about twelve), and headed off to the theater. Although the nine-year-old probably laughed more, the twelve-year-old had a really good time watching this. Me? My expectations were low, though I didn't think I would hate it entirely, but once we sat down those two hours just flew by. This movie was really fun to see, even for a fourteen-year-old such as myself, humorous and entertaining. It was a welcome break from Dr. Dolittle.

This movie having no bad words, a good theme for youngsters to learn, and humor that even most parents will enjoy as well as their kids, this is an AWESOME movie.

I officially give this movie the O.A.M.R. of three and a half stars

The Game Plan

When NFL quarterback Joe Kingman and his team have a chance to win the championship, a girl knocks on his penthouse door. And the girl is? His daughter.

Starring, Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson as "Joe Kingman" and Madison Pettis, (the sassy kid off the Disney series, "Cory in the House"), as "Peyton Kelly".

Had this movie not had the plot twists and turns that it does indeed possess, I can see me not liking this movie much, but it was made well and the acting was believable and humorous.

This film has no profanity, and has its moments of four-starish-ness threaded throughout its wake.
A "cute" film, my sister calls it.

I hereby give this movie the O.A.M.R. of three stars

Pathfinder

This is an older movie, and its been out awhile, but when we rented it from our local movie rental place, I'm glad we took the time to see it.

When a woman finds a crashed Viking ship, (awesomely eerie in itself), she comes across a boy left in the wreckage. After some speculation, the lad is raised by the Native Americans and named "Ghost".
After years and years go by, guess who returns to "cleanse the land of savages"? That's right, the Vikings. And so, loyal to those who made him a part of their tribe and family, Ghost goes out to kill those who killed his family. But the Vikings have another plan...

The film-makers made the Vikings really neat, (not in the cool-and-fun-to -be-around way, either). Their helmets are terror inflicting, and their language, (could it be Old Norse?), is really neat to listen to.

This movie is complete with awesome and believable fight-scenes, a shield sledding scene where the hero is pursued by the Norsemen down a slippery slope, and really pretty country-side.

Other than a few inavoidable bad words in the subtitles of the Vikings, this movie is clean and fun to watch.

I give it the O.A.M.R. of four stars

I am Legend

This movie was great. Any zombie/survivalist/explosions lover will find this movie...AWESOME.

There are times when this film keeps you on the edge of your seat, and, as if your Dad has just popped out of nowhere and screamed, "BOO!", might make some viewers pop right out of their chairs and fly headfirst into the wall...like when the protagonist is running through a dark parking lot complex with the zombies chasing him.


There are some bad words, and I wished that we might have hooked up our TV Guardian to the theater, so this movie would be best viewed at home.
But other than that, this is a great movie that I'm sure you'll enjoy.

I present this film with the O.A.M.R. of five stars

Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief

What can I say? Hmm...well, on the positive side, some of the animal voices were humorous...Lucky, in particular. In fact, Lucky is the only good part about this movie. Who doesn't love a sarcastic, furry companion?

But, despite Lucky's humorous comments, I found this movie annoying. It was basically another, "save the rain forests" speech to the public.
The main character bugged me too. If everyone had as much low self esteem as her, this country would still be in the Dark Ages. She gave up too easy, allowed herself to get pelted with tomatoes and couldn't seem to figure out how to cure the demonic dog "Daisy" of her mean streak, even though the answer was incredibly easy to see even half way through the film.

Then again, I haven't found many talking animal movies tasteful after the movie with the dancing Penguin in it.

This movie has no profanity in it, though, and I imagine that most kids, (and talking-animal lovers), will like it.

I give it the O.A.M.R of one star

Nancy Drew

I thought this movie was entertaining, (although I've only ever read half of a Nancy Drew book and ended up losing interest half way through), and that the acting was done well.

We, unfortunately, ended up ordering the "pop-up version", of this film on PPV. I'm not sure whether I found that little pop noise more distracting or annoying, and that I oftentimes would end up not paying attention to what the actors were saying just to read some silly little fact about the director. But even through all this, I thought that the movie was made well and it held my attention nearly all the way through...which is a lot to say, as I was writing my book at the time and actually looked over at the movie more than my computer screen.

This movie has no profane language, no "nasty" themes and is definately a good one to take the Nancy Drew experts to.


This film receives the O.A.M.R. of two and a half stars.