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Tim Burton's 'Frankenweenie': It's alive! Or is it? ★★ 1/2
Before things took off with "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and "Beetlejuice," Tim Burton made a live-action black-and-white film, in 1984, called "Frankenweenie." You can find it on YouTube. It's really good. Just about everything we now know as...
Tags: Ed Wood (movie), Vertigo (movie), Entertainment, Charlie Tahan, Animation (Movie Genre)
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'Rise of the Guardians'
The family movie “Rise of the Guardians” will be shown Saturday at 3 p.m. at Hancock Library in Widmeyer Park. When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the...Tags: Rise of the Guardians (movie), Entertainment, Human Interest, Movies, Arts and Culture
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'Won't Back Down' gets a D+ for a public school polemic ★ 1/2
Bored and visibly sneering as she fiddles with her cellphone while sitting at her desk, the grade school teacher barely takes notice of the sweet young girl challenged by learning disabilities. The student stands nervously before the blackboard,...
Tags: Collective Contract, Entertainment, Won't Back Down (movie), Career and Workplace, Schools
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'Wreck-It Ralph': Fun runs out of quarters ★★ 1/2
"Wreck-It Ralph," the exhaustingly dazzling new Walt Disney Animation Studios feature, qualifies as the most manic baby sitter in town, clever and detailed in its kaleidoscopic depiction of the private lives, seething resentments and yearning dreams of...
Tags: Cars 2 (movie), Jack McBrayer, Entertainment, Animation (Movie Genre), Gaming
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A determined teacher enters the Octagon in 'Here Comes the Boom' ★★ 1/2
Wait a sec. How did the Kevin James mixed martial arts movie end up a more convincing portrait of the plight of the American public school teacher than "Won't Back Down," a film that's actually about that subject? "Here Comes the Boom" begins not well,...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Kevin James, Won't Back Down (movie), Warrior (movie)
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'Katy Perry: Part of Me': If you see only one 3-D concert film this summer ... ★★½
Paramount Pictures does not lie: The chipper, no-warts-and-all tour chronicle "Katy Perry: Part of Me" is indeed the 3-D movie music event of the summer. The only one, I believe. Unless Christopher Nolan's"The Dark Knight Rises" turns out to be in 3-D,...
Tags: Russell Brand, Music, Entertainment, Katy Perry, Movies
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'Adventures of Tintin' fake, frantic, tiring -- 2 stars
![Directed by Steven Spielberg, a longtime fan of the source material, "The Adventures of Tintin" begins with a gorgeous animated credit sequence, deftly incorporating bits of the narrative about to unfold. It's as nifty as the overture in Spielberg's earlier "Catch Me If You Can," both scored, with a glancing touch, by his longtime mood generator, composer John Williams. It's always gratifying to hear what Williams can do when he's not in attack mode.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-12/66889570-20074032.jpg "Directed by Steven Spielberg, a longtime fan of the source material, "The Adventures of Tintin\" begins with a gorgeous animated credit sequence, deftly incorporating bits of the narrative about to unfold. It's as nifty as the overture in Spielberg's earlier \"Catch Me If You Can,\" both scored, with a glancing touch, by his longtime mood generator, composer John Williams. It's always gratifying to hear what Williams can do when he's not in attack mode.")
Directed by Steven Spielberg, a longtime fan of the source material, "The Adventures of Tintin" begins with a gorgeous animated credit sequence, deftly incorporating bits of the narrative about to unfold. It's as nifty as the overture in Spielberg's...Tags: Steven Spielberg, The Adventures of Tintin (movie), Animation (Movie Genre), Entertainment, Andy Serkis
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'Journey 2' gets wasted in paradise -- ✭ 1/2
![In its own sweetly bombastic way, the 2008 remake of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" did the job, the job being a 21st-century 3-D bash starring Brendan Fraser — an actor who gives his all to the green screen, every time — and loosely based on the 19th-century Jules Verne adventure, a natural for the movies. Its script proceeded from the idea that Verne, science fiction visionary, was in reality writing about real places and genuine fantastic phenomena only <em>disguised </em>as fiction.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-02/67943052-08142841.jpg "In its own sweetly bombastic way, the 2008 remake of "Journey to the Center of the Earth\" did the job, the job being a 21st-century 3-D bash starring Brendan Fraser — an actor who gives his all to the green screen, every time — and loosely based on the 19th-century Jules Verne adventure, a natural for the movies. Its script proceeded from the idea that Verne, science fiction visionary, was in reality writing about real places and genuine fantastic phenomena only <em>disguised </em>as fiction.")
In its own sweetly bombastic way, the 2008 remake of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" did the job, the job being a 21st-century 3-D bash starring Brendan Fraser — an actor who gives his all to the green screen, every time — and loosely...Tags: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (movie), Stranger Than Fiction, Journey to the Center of the Earth (movie, 2008), Entertainment, Movies
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'The Lorax' gets the look right, but Dr. Seuss book's heart gets short shrift ✭✭
![The new animated feature "The Lorax,"known in its entirety as "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" to keep it straight from "John Grisham's The Lorax," does a few smaller things right but the bigger things not quite. I've come to fear these movies. I love Seuss so much, even his second-shelf works. Who doesn't feel protective of authors and illustrators they love? And not just because we were young when we made their acquaintance.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-02/68461096-29112026.jpg "The new animated feature "The Lorax,\"known in its entirety as \"Dr. Seuss' The Lorax\" to keep it straight from \"John Grisham's The Lorax,\" does a few smaller things right but the bigger things not quite. I've come to fear these movies. I love Seuss so much, even his second-shelf works. Who doesn't feel protective of authors and illustrators they love? And not just because we were young when we made their acquaintance.")
The new animated feature "The Lorax,"known in its entirety as "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" to keep it straight from "John Grisham's The Lorax," does a few smaller things right but the bigger things not quite. I've come to fear these movies. I love Seuss so...Tags: Animation (Movie Genre), Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (movie), Entertainment, Despicable Me (movie), Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who (movie)
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Third movie does no favors to 'Wimpy Kid' material ★ 1/2
Why are the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" movies so much less fun, and funny, than the best of the books created by Jeff Kinney? On the page, Kinney's illustrations, those stick-figure humiliations and angsty margin doodles allegedly drawn by the exasperated...
Tags: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (movie), Zachary Gordon, Entertainment, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (movie), Gaming
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'ParaNorman' poses a parental challenge
As someone who does not have kids, I can attest to the fact that parents of small children love being told what they are doing wrong by the childless. Whenever I offer advice, parents smile so broadly! And listen so closely! Occasionally, blinded by...
Tags: ParaNorman (movie), Entertainment, Pixar Animation, Coraline (movie), Health and Medical Professionals
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'The Croods': Project's evolution unkind to animated cave dwellers ★★
It's "Ice Age" with humans and less ice. "The Croods" began life nearly a decade ago as "Crood Awakening," a collaboration of DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Studios, with a script co-written by John Cleese. Then Aardman, creators of the great Wallace...
Tags: Catherine Keener, Animation (Movie Genre), DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, John Cleese, Caves and Caverns
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