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Review:     4 Stars     Rated:     PG

She’s back, and bigger than ever!  Or is she small, after all?  Tim Burton returns to the big screen with Alice in Wonderland, telling the story of Alice’s (Mia Wasikowska) return to Wonderland many years after her first adventure.  Although mostly CGI a bevy of famous actors play parts, including two of Burton’s favourites in Johnny Depp (Mad Hatter) and Helena Bonham Carter (Red Queen), with those two stealing the show as always.

Plot: Alice is now grown up but keeps having strange dreams of blue caterpillars and other strange creatures.  While at a party she follows a rabbit, wearing a waistcoat, and falls down a rabbit hole!  Those familiar with the original story will know what is coming for the next few minutes, but then the new adventures begin as Alice is whisked from place to place, meeting all the colourful characters again but without any memory of them, before finally reaching her destiny as the saviour of them all.

The start of the movie was a little slow, but, the scene did have to be set for what was to come, but it still did not feel to me that the movie really started until Alice fell down the rabbit hole.  From then on the story flowed fluidly and quickly, with humour, both dark and light, mixing well throughout.  As with most of Burton’s movies almost all the imagery throughout was a little surreal, but as always it worked.  Once Alice went down the rabbit hole it is just hard to find fault with this movie!

I saw it in 3D but there were few scenes were the 3D stood out (pun intended) and I think it would be just as good in 2D.  This movie is definitely Worth a Ticket to be sure you get the full effect.

-Andy Hughes

Review:    2 Stars     Rated:     PG

The peoples Tooth Fairy flies into theaters fully loaded with manly wings and leotards.

Plot: Derek Thompson (Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock) is a Hockey player enforcer thats lost touch with his dreams and expresses his ill-faith bluntly to people that have their own.
Fairy land has declared that Mr. Thompson is a menace to hopes and dreams and is sentenced to two weeks Tooth Fairy duty.

As much as this film Sucked overall,  I found myself laughing more times then I expected to.  Kids 10 and under will probably enjoy this silly film more then anyone and it should do quite well when the DVD comes out.  Wait for the DVD and spend it with the kids cuddled up on the couch.

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- Dan Kersey

Review:     2.5 Stars     Rated:     PG

A cute family movie staring Jackie Chan and Amber Valletta, (who recently starred in Gamer).

Bob Ho (Chan) plays an international spy ready for retirement and settle down with his new found love, Gillian (Valletta).  Everything is going as planed for Bob until a new mission is assigned to him and its his most challenging one yet, looking after Gillian’s kids.

Jackie Chan is one of my favorite action stars and is always fun to watch.  This movie is really geared towards kids and more-so to the 13 and under crowed.  However, in saying that, I still had fun watching Jackie Chan’s Martial arts moves in this low budget bad acting film.  Wait for the DVD, kids will love it.

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- Dan Kersey

Review:     2.5 Stars

Not the best 3D movie I’ve seen and it really didn’t live up to a Disney film standard.  Jim Carrey stared as the main character in this animated version of  A Christmas Carol.

This film is targeted towards kids more than adults and the 3D was downplayed as it could have been much better.  The best parts of this film were already depicted in the previews  giving the illusion of a much better film.    Aside from the 3D,  what attracted me to this movie was the fact that Jim was staring;  however,  I feel that he didn’t live up to my personal expectations of  a funny Carrey movie.   It seemed as though his personality was held back by either the director, or maybe it was just a lack of effort on his part.

Final thoughts:  Half the attraction to this movie was that fact it was in 3D;  failing at even that aspect, I wouldn’t consider renting this one.  However, kids will undoubtedly enjoy watching this movie

-Dean D

Review:     3.5 Stars

Astro Boy is based off a cartoon TV series that still has a cult following today. Growing up I used to watch Astro Boy quite often and I really appreciated how this movie pretty much kept to the origin of how Astro came to be.

Astro is a robot that was created by a brilliant scientist, (Dr. Tenma), after his son was killed in a terrible accident.  He created Astro to look and act like his late son Tobio (Toby), and even went as far as to program him with his sons memories.

The movie animation is full of soft bright colours that kids will find attractive and fun,  I just sat back with a smile to watch an old childhood memory fly across the silver screen.  Fans of Astro boy should be happy with this film, along with kids under 12,  as this movie is really geared for a younger audience.  I for one can’t wait for Blu-ray  which leaves me to my final thoughts … Unless your an Astro boy fan or a kid under 12 etc;  wait for the DVD.

-Dan Kersey

Review:     3.5 Stars

ok, yes, I know this is a late review, but time and money are not always on the side of us movie critics, so sue me.

I finally got a chance to see this movie, and I brought 3 of my 4 kids (aged 8, 10, and 12) to the movie. This movie was fun. For adults, there were parts of the movie that are just plain corny, but you have to remember that this movie designed for kids, and MY kids really enjoyed this movie and had a great time.

Since this review is late, you may have already elected to see this movie with your family. If you haven’t, you need to go see this with your kids before it leaves! GO WATCH IT!.

-Carl Constantine

Review:     2 1/2 Stars

Silly goofy and cheesy,  however quit entertaining all the way through, it kept even the younger kids attention.  As a Walt Disney Film, I thought it could have been done a lot better.  Not a lot of humor directed for adults watching this kids film but I did crack a few smiles.  Good cute film and should do well on the DVD release, which leads me to the end of this review,  Wait for the DVD

-Dan Kersey