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Everyone's Hero (2006)
pretty good
I had to wait for someone in the mall, and since it was "cheap day" at the cinema, I bought some popcorn and sat in on this film. I knew absolutely nothing about it except that it was a clean film, about baseball. I flinched when I saw it was animated, but soon began to enjoy it. I'm a daycare worker, and thought that the boy's movements and speech were VERY realistic for that age. (So help me, I was sure I knew the boy upon whom the character must be based!) I thought the plot was enjoyable, simple enough for even smallest children to grasp, with plenty of nostalgia thrown in for adults (eg. ancient train station way out in the boondocks in the middle of the night). I did NOT care much for the talking baseball's script -- a cliché here and there is expected, but we ALWAYS knew what was going to come out of the baseball's mouth. The talking bat was cute. The ending was satisfying. Plenty of violence in this film, but it's a good kind: the bad guy keeps trying to be mean, so things "happen" to him.
The bonus in this film was seeing how a boy supports his parents in a moment of crisis, instead of badmouthing them and disobeying them. Oh, yes, almost forgot -- loved the depiction of the mother -- she looked so... real for that time. Great film overall.
The Reptile (1966)
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I remember going with the family into the big city one day, and enjoying not one, but THREE great movies: Apache Gold, some war film, and THIS horrible one. We had the bejeebers scared out of us -- I'll never forget that bubbling pit... and then... THE REPTILE! It was a slimy, scaly, perfect reptile. Can't remember much about any of the actors, but the house was creepy, with lots of stone corridors and basement drip sound effects. Great movie: people scream, people die... we loved every minute of this heart-banging-against-ribs flick. Today, maybe we'd laugh out loud, but to us pre-teens, it made for great nightmares for the next few weeks.
Where are those great triple-bill days now?