The Emoji Movie (2017)
“Who has the time to type out actual words?” Not everything about The Emoji Movie is horrible. The colors are crisp. The voicework, while uninspired, has been cast well. It’s pretty short. […]
Category Archives: Animation
Despicable Me 3 (2017)
“Does no one value true art anymore?” Movies like Despicable Me 3 – alongside other recent animated films such as the insultingly stupid The Secret Life of Pets or the scattershot The Good Dinosaur […]
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017)
“Is it okay that I’m kind of loving this?” If you were to trade out the deviant bromance of Superbad for childish potty humor and sprinkle in a dose of Ferris Bueller’s Day […]
The Boss Baby (2017)
“My parents always said that I have an overactive imagination.” The Boss Baby comes to us as unexpectedly as one of those tabloid headlines about a woman who thought she had months […]
Tower (2016)
“It was just a whole different world.” Not only do history books serve as a memory bank and an archive of the past, but more often than not they also […]
The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)
“Batman works alone.” From its impressively staged opening sequence to the final scene, The LEGO Batman Movie leaps off the high dive of hilarity and performs a cannonball into the canon […]
Sing (2016)
“Wonder and magic don’t come easy, pal.” There’s something about Sing, despite its many miscues and lapses in judgement, that registers in a really personal way. Even when things go bad and […]
Moana (2016)
“Who would want to go anywhere else?” I hope you’ve all experienced that sort of awkward and instant connection with another person where you couldn’t hold back a slight smile aimed in […]
Trolls (2016)
“I think everyone deserves to be happy.” If you ever wondered what the film version of a singing birthday card would be like, then Trolls is your answer. High-pitched, unexpected, and most of […]
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
“If you must blink, do it now.” From the onset, Kubo and the Two Strings uses the above quote to command our immediate attention, and by the time it’s through we’re left […]
