All posts tagged "Animated Features"
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Jim Batts | August 21, 2025NE ZHA II – Review
As we reach the end of the big Summer cinema season of 2025, feature animation fans have had...
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Jim Batts | June 19, 2025ELIO – Review
They’ve had their time in the sun (the multiplex, actually), so move over live-action adaptations, and make room...
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Jim Batts | January 2, 2025WALLACE & GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL – Review
Happy New Year 2025 indeed, since it’s off to a “crackin’ good start’! And you’re no doubt wondering...
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Jim Batts | November 26, 2024MOANA 2 – Review
For most of the country it feels as though Winter is finally settling in (though it’s officially a...
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Jim Batts | March 7, 2024KUNG FU PANDA 4 – Review
Since we’re nearly into Spring Break season for students, the studios are gearing up to release some sequels...
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Jim Batts | December 21, 2023MIGRATION – Review
It’s the big holiday weekend, and for many families, it’s the perfect time for a big getaway. Oh,...
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Jim Batts | July 31, 2023TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM – Review
All right, perhaps this unifying theme for the 2023 Summer movie season is nostalgia. Sure, the multiplex is...
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Jim Batts | June 29, 2023RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN – Review
Things have certainly gotten interesting recently with the Summer box office. Usually, we’d be talking about the records...
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Jim Batts | June 13, 2023ELEMENTAL (2023) – Review
When thinking of the animation process, we naturally think of giving movement to characters created by artists using...
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Jim Batts | April 5, 2023THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE – Review
As I mentioned in last week’s review of the big D&D flick (which topped the box office charts),...
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Jim Batts | December 21, 2022PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH – Review
Now, what would make this most “magical time of the year” more magical? How about a return visit...
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Jim Batts | November 17, 2022GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO – Review
Aside from the serious somber Oscar contenders, and a few action blockbusters, the end-of-the-year holidays see the release...
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Jim Batts | August 4, 2022LUCK – Review
Okay parents, the countdown to the return of the school year is close to single-digit days. Really, hard...
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Jim Batts | June 30, 2022MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU – Review
As we enter the “middle Month” of Summer, moviegoers will finally get to see another “franchise flick” that’s...
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Jim Batts | June 16, 2022LIGHTYEAR – Review
This weekend’s big new studio release is another bit of a Summer celebration (as if there aren’t lots...
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Jim Batts | May 26, 2022THE BOB’S BURGERS MOVIE – Review
With Memorial Day looming, many moviegoers may not “feel the need, the need for speed” (though most will,...
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Jim Batts | March 10, 2022TURNING RED – Review
Well, it looks like we’ve just about made it to Spring break, so it’s time to celebrate with...
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Jim Batts | January 28, 2022THE ICE AGE ADVENTURES OF BUCK WILD – Review
Whoa, talk about deja vu! it seems like it was just a couple of weeks ago when I...
