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Walt Disney's Chicken Little - Don Knotts' final performance

Walt Disney’s Chicken Little

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Review

Have you ever sat through a children’s movie with a message? A very blunt message? That the movie beats you over the head with, over, and over? And over? That’s Walt Disney’s Chicken Little, unfortunately. It takes a good concept, and ruins it in the execution. It’s the final film of Don Knotts, and it’s a sad farewell to a great talent and very funny man.

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Hermie: A Common Caterpillar

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Editorial Review of Hermie : A Common Caterpillar, starring Don Knotts and Tim Conway, courtesy of Amazon.com

 So what’s so bad about being a common caterpillar? Just ask Hermie-or his friend, Wormie-and they’ll tell you. No splashy stripes. No stand-out spots. Not even a cool house like the snail or super-strength like the ant. Compared to the rest of God’s beautiful creation, they just feel ordinary. Unimportant. A little out of place. But God sees past their plainness, and plans an incredible surprise to show them just how special they are.Read More »Hermie: A Common Caterpillar

The Emperor’s New Clothes

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The Emperor’s New Clothes, starring Sid Caesar, Robert Morse, Jason Carter, Lysette Anthony

DVD review of The Emperor’s New Clothes starring Sid Caesar, Clive Revill, Robert Morse. A very good children’s film that plays on two levels – one for the children, and another for the adults, with the perpetually funny Sid Caesar cracking me up every time he appears as the self-absorbed emperor

Sid Caesar is one of those clowns who can take a minor part and make it laugh out loud hilarious — which he does in this version of the classic children’s tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes. Read More »The Emperor’s New Clothes

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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The Chronicles of Narnia — The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

Disney The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Widescreen.   C.S. Lewis’s classic novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe makes an ambitious and long-awaited leap to the screen in this modern adaptation.  It’s a CGI-created world laden with all the special effects and visual wizardry modern film making technology can conjure, which is fine so long as the film stays true to the story that Lewis wrote. And while this film is not a literal translation — it really wants to be so much more than just a kids’ movie.  For the most part it is faithful enough to the story.  Whatever faults it has are happily faults of overreaching, and not of holding back.

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