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‘Bee Movie’ Review

November 2, 2007 By Jackson Murphy

Nearly 5-years in the making, Jerry Seinfeld’s “Bee Movie” is finally here! The animated film stars Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson, a bee who’s just graduated from college and now has to take a job in the honey factory with all the other bees. But Barry wants to leave the hive and check-out the human […]

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‘The Comebacks’ Review

October 20, 2007 By Jackson Murphy

I’ll get right to the point: “The Comebacks” is a loser. The idea is good – a sports movie that makes fun of other sports movies. But this film is awful. It’s not funny and it’s certainly not for kids! Too much adult humor, or, I should say, adult NO humor. No need to explain […]

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‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ Review

October 9, 2007 By Jackson Murphy

The first documentary I ever saw was “March of the Penguins”, back in 2005. It’s so good I saw it twice! Now I’ve seen my second. This new one is called “In the Shadow of the Moon”, and it’s the story of the nine American astronauts who have gone to the moon. The movie was […]

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‘The Game Plan’ Review

September 27, 2007 By Jackson Murphy

“The Game Plan” made a lot more money when it was out in theaters than I thought it would. The Disney’s comedy stars Dwayne”The Rock” Johnson as a pro football quarterback named Joe Kingman who thinks he has the perfect game plan to lead his team to a championship. But then his young daughter shows-up […]

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‘Resurrecting the Champ’ Review

August 14, 2007 By Jackson Murphy

There aren’t a lot of kids movies out at the end of the summer so my dad and I went to see “Resurrecting the Champ” the other day and I’m glad we did. The movie is rated PG-13 for some boxing violence and fighting scenes, but it’s appropriate for kids, say, 10 and older, especially […]

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‘Underdog’ Review

August 3, 2007 By Jackson Murphy

There’s no need to fear…”Underdog” is here, in his own movie from Walt Disney Pictures. This is a live-action version of the 1960’s TV cartoon about a dog who is also a superhero. In the movie a mild-mannered dog gets amazing powers when a scientific experiment he’s part of goes bad. He’s then picked-up off […]

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‘The Simpsons Movie’ Review

July 27, 2007 By Jackson Murphy

The Simpsons are finally on the big screen after 18 years in “The Simpsons Movie”, which stars all the regulars from the show and a few new characters. The story centers around over-polluted Lake Springfield. When Homer dumps a silo full of animal droppings from his new pet “Spider Pig” into the lake the Environmental […]

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‘No Reservations’ Review

July 27, 2007 By Jackson Murphy

“No Reservations” stars Catherine Zeta Jones as a chef of a New York City restaurant. Her sister is killed in a car accident so Jones’ character has to take care of her niece, who’s played by Abigail Breslin. This isn’t easy for the chef, who is used to living alone and working crazy hours. And […]

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‘Hairspray’ Review

July 20, 2007 By Jackson Murphy

The latest version of “Hairspray” is a remake of the 1988 film that starred Riki Lake and it follows the successful Broadway show. And it’s the same story of a teenage girl named Tracy Turnblad who has a dream of dancing on a popular 1960’s TV show. Tracy (played by newcomer Nicki Blonsky) is a […]

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‘Transformers’ Review

July 2, 2007 By Jackson Murphy

This newest version of “Transformers” is not an animated cartoon, like the earlier 1986 movie and the TV show. But it’s the same story, based on the popular kids toys. In this version Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox play high schoolers who are the first to learn that the giants robots have come to Earth […]

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