Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

[7] New York teenager Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is bitten by a radioactive spider and begins developing powers just like Spider-Man. He meets the real Spider-Man (Chris Pine) during an encounter with a villain named Kingpin (Liev Schreiber), who is using a…
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

[6] Writer/director Dean DeBlois wraps up the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy with a mostly satisfying finale. In this third film, young Viking Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and his comrades discover a second, rare Night Fury dragon -- and it's a female.…
Treasure Planet (2002)

Treasure Planet (2002)

[6] Disney Animation puts a science-fiction twist on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story. The mix of 2D and 3D animation is interesting, especially when you stop to marvel at an animator's mastery of perspective when 2D characters are seen running through 3D…
The Black Cauldron (1985)

The Black Cauldron (1985)

[5] There was definitely potential. A dark Disney movie based on Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain, about a farm boy's brave attempt to stop a demonic king from conquering the land with his army of skeletal warriors? Sign me up! Unfortunately, Disney…
All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)

All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)

[6] Don Bluth's films (The Land Before Time, The Secret of NIMH) tend to be too mature for children and too immature for adults. Consider All Dogs Go to Heaven, where one moment you have cutsey critters singing a cringe-worthy song about…
9 (2009)

9 (2009)

[6] Shane Acker's computer-animated post-apocalyptic fantasy is visually interesting, but the characters are bland and the story is wobbly. The movie is a tonal quagmire, trying to balance its dark and dreary subject matter with a kid-friendly PG-13 rating. The plot starts…
Cars (2006)

Cars (2006)

[7] Pixar has an uncanny way of dressing up an old familiar formula and making it seem brand new. Cars is a story about life in the fast lane (literally and figuratively), and the dangers of forgetting to smell the flowers and…
Toy Story 2 (1999)

Toy Story 2 (1999)

[8] Pixar returns to the toy box for another adventure with Woody, Buzz, and all the other toys who helped make the first Toy Story so memorable. This time around, Woody is kidnapped by a toy collector and the other toys must…
Toy Story 3 (2010)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

[8] It's been 11 years since Toy Story 2, and the same amount of time has passed in Buzz and Woody's world. Andy is now heading off to college and the toys' fates are up in the air. Will they go with…
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010)

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010)

[6] Too mature for children, but too immature for adults, Legend of the Guardians may never find an audience beyond those thirteen years of age or thirteen at heart (guilty as charged.) It's a dark, computer-animated fantasy based on a series of…