The whole famdamily went out to see “The Adventures of Tintin.” I’m going to refer you to the IMDB site to explain what the movie is about. It’s complicated and they do a better job than I can.

Besides I dozed off during the movie a few times.It’s pretty and has some neat animated action scenes but it really is kind of dull, even though we sprang the extra bucks for the 3D version.

I give the movie two stars out of five. Nice scenes, great action, sometimes, but kind of dull. Gottasay though that SuperPizzaBoy reports that he likes the movie.

The second movie in the Yogi Movie Festival is “We Bought a Zoo”

Fun, fun, fun but I wish they had watched their language!

We Bought a Zoo was the third movie we saw over the holidays. It is a gentle movie about a guy with two kids, a moody teenage boy and a very cute little girl, who loses his wife, their mother and finds himself at loose ends. Trying to make a fresh start he looks for a new house out in the country and finds a house and along with the house a private zoo complete with staff of fun characters.

So not knowing a thing about  he plunges in and before he knows finds himself almost buried alive financially and emotionally under his new burden. I’ll let you guess the rest.

I liked the movie, it kind of markets itself as a family movie but the language is a little rough at times. SuperPizzaBoy muttered loudly several times about why there was so much cussing.

Still, all in all not a bad move. I give it three stars out of five. Go see it.

Sweetie and I went to see The Descendants with George Clooney. Clooney plays Matt King a less than perfect husband and father whose less than perfect, extreme sport addict, wife Elizabeth ends up in a coma following a speed boating accident and will soon die. King decides to round up both his perfect little girl, and  his less than perfect teenage daughter , who brings along her moronic boyfriend and make the rounds of family and friends to tell them that they need to get to the hospital to say their goodbye’s to Elizabeth.

So that’s pretty sad, but then Matt starts to find out things about his wife that he has to go check out on his own. This is against a backdrop of Matt’s cousins and a big land deal coming up where the family is going to sell out a huge chunk of unspoiled  Hawaiian wilderness to a developer.

Clooney is a great actor. This is a serious movie but he provides comic relief. He can just look into the camera and be funny. He reminds me a little of Steve Martin sometimes.

Also interesting is the Hawaii we see in this movie. Much of it is the Hawaii of Dog the Bounty Hunter. the red neck side of things.

I give the movie four stars out of five. Go see it, leave the kids home though.

Sweetie and I went to see Breaking Dawn part one the other day. How about I give a fast recap, with not too many spoilers.

Let me see, Bella is now all growns up, she and Edward decide to get married! Sweet, right?

Take a good look at this photograph, its about the only time Bella ever looks happy.

She and Edward have a good time at the private island. They take their clothes off and get in the water.

They get tired of playing in the water and they put their clothes back on and play some chess.

And then they get tired of chess and take their clothes back off. Young people these days.

Meanwhile, Jacob is running around in the rain. You know he’s a lot better looking and more likable than Edward but I always worried about this boy. At least Edward knows to come inside when it rains. He just can figure out whether he keeps his clothes on or off.

And then… You’ll have to go see for yourself. Let’s just say that the fur flies.

Here is the trailer.

I give the movie about three stars out of five. I mean it’s not too bad. Women just go crazy over it. Guys, big hint, watching the movies is definitely less painful than reading the books.

Watched Hugo the movie on Sunday. The family loved it. Entertaining enough for kids, meaty enough for the parents. I loved it. I recommend you go see it. We saw the 3D version. Here is our latest family portrait.

Have you seen a good movie lately?

On a cold, windy, rainy, Saturday afternoon Sweetie, SuperPizzaBoy, and I met up with several of SPB’s school friends and their parents to see Diary of Wimpy Kid – Roderick Rules. (Kudos to Sweetie for putting together the get together!)

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Online Trailer

If you have never heard of the Diary of a Wimpy kid then you don’t know any pre-teenage boys. The movie is the second of a series based on books by Jeff Kinney. I haven’t read any of the books but SPB loves them. (They have sold 42 million copies!)

The book is about the trials and tribulations of seventh grader Gregg Hefley who contends with his older fiendish brother Rodrick and a bratty spoiled younger brother as well as a couple of unreasonable parents (including a dad who like most movie Dads is portrayed as a goofball, sniff).

I thought the movie was fun. It covered preteen infatuations, an off again-on again friendship with an older brother, hapless parents trying to maintain control, but featured mainly the constant embarrassment of the never never in between land of a seventh grader. I think the book resonates pretty well with both kids and parents.

Check out the website. Lots of information, fun, and games there. You can even wimp yourself. Here is the wimpy Yogi.

Nice legs, heh? And I took a little artistic license and gave myself some hair and shrunk my gut a little bit.

I give the movie a three out of five. SPB rates it an emphatic loud, yelling five out of five. Its a decent movie for both kids and parents.

Sweetie and I recently saw The Tourist with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.

Jolie’s character is a really beautiful woman who likes to hang out with bad guys. When I saw beautiful I mean she is Luscious. Definitely not the girl next door. Depp’s character describes her as ravenous. She says you mean “ravishing” and he says yes, but I know he meant ravenous because she is fixing to eat him and spit him out.

Johnny Depp is all growns up now but still has bad hair. I mean awful. I thought Hollywood has all those high fashion $400 a pop stylists. Don’t you think that he could go to the same guys that work on John Edwards and Bill Clinton. Jeez Louise, the Day Center for the Homeless right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma gives better haircuts than Depp gets.

Anyway, this movie has both bad guys and good guys looking for Jolie’s beau. She picks out Depp on a train and tries to make the bad and good guys think that he is the beau. Depp plays this sad sack, widower, loser math teacher who somehow thinks this beautiful English woman wants him. You can tell by looking at him that he is a typical liberal Democrat loser.

You know the concept, the corrupt European’s trying to sully the pure naive American. It has been going on for years. Anyway he puts up with a lot of crap from Jolie, and Scotland Yard, and the bad guys until he has had enough. Then he’s like Rambo without guns, kicks some butt, takes names, grabs his woman and heads off into the sunset to become a manly Sarah Palin Republican.

The movie has plot holes a mile wide but I don’t really care. It is beautifully filmed, Jolie is absolutely stunning and just steals the show.

I give it three stars out of four, it is well worth seeing.

During the holidays the Yogi’s went to see Gulliver’s Travels. Its a modern redo of the classic story with Jack Black playing an underachieving slacker mail guy who talks himself into a trip to the Bermuda Triangle.

Go see the trailer here.

I give the movie one star out of five. See if you can’t talk your kid into seeing Tangled instead.