• June 29, 2015
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

Steve Carell voices Gru, an increasingly irrelevant evildoer who aspires to be the biggest and best badass on the planet by shrinking the moon with a ray gun, and...

• June 12, 2015
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

When her idyllic family moves to San Francisco from Minnesota, 12-year-old Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) is put into a bit of a spin. What may appear to everyone else as...

• May 30, 2015
• Animation, At Home

The Looney Tunes Musical Masterpieces collection is sort of like the Bugs Bunny version of Fantasia (influenced by fewer psychotropic drugs). As you probably remember, many Looney Tunes were...

• May 15, 2015
• Animation, At Home

Few things will sell a comic movie better than a cool action figure, so Batman vs. Robin gets points right off the bat. This action figure is not a...

• November 7, 2014
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

Our scrappy hero Hiro is a smart but unfocused teen. He gambles with his creations on the robot-fighting circuit, while his idolized elder brother Tadashi excels in college. Just...

• July 17, 2014
• Action, Animation, At Home, Family

I admit, after seeing Planes: Fire & Rescue, I kind of wanted a toy of one the retro park-ranger trucks, à la Glacier Park’s tourist buses from the 1930s. I...

• April 29, 2014
• Animation, At Home, Comedy

Despite their reputations as being oh-so-cute, have you ever met a city squirrel that was, well, kind of a jerk? Maybe he was a little mangy, or maybe just...

• April 2, 2014
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

There is a type of kid that I’ll call a dinosaur kid. Dinosaur kids LOVE dinosaurs. There obsession is admirable for a person of any age, and they can...

• March 16, 2014
• Animation, At Home, Fantasy, Science Fiction

At first you may see glimpses of Coraline in this film (the stitching of the doll/robot at the beginning), or any Terminator movie (the apocalypse was caused by a...

• February 22, 2014
• Animation, At Home, Comedy

Just as one might wonder how the United States might have been different if our national symbol was the turkey (as Ben Franklin wanted) instead of the bald eagle,...

• February 22, 2014
• Action, Animation, At Home, Television

I’ve always been puzzled about the intended audience of comic book cartoon shows. I mean, they’re animated and usually air when and where kids can find them, but they’re...

• February 22, 2014
• Animation, At Home

Technically they’re spectacular, but entertainment-wise they could be stronger. I think of myself as someone who really likes animation, so I’m a bit baffled as to why I’m not...