I don't watch kids' movies very often, but every now and then, it's just what you need. Here are a few that tickled my fancy lately:
I knew a few of the classic lines from
Ice Age, and had seen a scene or two but never the whole thing. It's pretty cute, it turns out! A good old fashioned buddy story, with some animal jokes thrown in. Too bad it took me so long to see it. Should I see any of the sequels?
Coco is one I had wanted to see since I first heard about it. I have missed out on a lot of the more recent Disney movies, but since my mom's family has Mexican heritage, this one seemed right up my alley. I thought it did a nice job of incorporating the ideas of the Day of the Dead with an engaging
story for the kiddos.
I cracked up watching the first
Peter Rabbit, so of course I was going to watch
Peter Rabbit 2. The second one wasn't as funny as the first, but it was still decent viewing. I especially appreciated a couple of specific American English / British English comedic references.
The Mighty Ducks was a staple of my childhood. For a few brief and shining moments I thought I might even want to learn to play hockey. Then I realized that what I really wanted to do was rollerblade in places that I wasn't supposed to, and decided perhaps
The Mighty Ducks wasn't a good influence on me. As with so many older movies, too (did you hear me call the 90's "older"?), they don't play quite the same these days -- you remember that line where Emilio Estevez's character calls his line of two black kids and white kid his "Oreo line"? Ouch.
Finding Dory is pretty darn funny, and a totally adequate sequel to
Finding Nemo. Dory, as a character, isn't quite as adorable as little Nemo was, but she's funny and lovable in her own dopey, Ellen DeGeneres way.
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