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(B-) The Tale of Despereaux

Genre: Family Issues
MPAA Rating: G     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
The visuals are rich and inviting but a complicated three-part story makes an uneasy transition to screen for the well-loved book by Kate DiCamillo. Sigourney Weaver narrates the story, beginning ...
» Read Review Posted on Wednesday April 8, 2009

(B+) Tangled

Genre: Musical
MPAA Rating: PG     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

Disney has taken a 200-year-old story from the Brothers Grimm and made it just modern enough, sassy without being snarky, fresh and contemporary without any po-mo air quotes. It's the classic f...

» Read Review Posted on Monday March 28, 2011

(B+) Tarzan

Genre: For the Whole Family
MPAA Rating:     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
Disneys latest animated epic owes as much to The Lion King and the tale of the ugly duckling than to the Johnny Weissmuller live-action series or the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels. Like The Lion King...
» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(C+) The Three Lives of Thomasina

Genre: For the Whole Family
MPAA Rating:     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
Plot: The story takes place in the Scotland of 1912. Mary MacDhui (Karen Dotrice) is a little girl whose mother has died. She loves her cat Thomasina more than anything in the world. Her father And...
» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B+) Thunderbirds

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MPAA Rating:     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
There are two kinds of people in the world, the people who know the 1960's British television show "Thunderbirds" well enough to hum the theme song and those who say "who?"

The show was eno...

» Read Review Posted on Saturday July 24, 2004

(C) Thunderstruck

Genre: Stories About Kids
MPAA Rating: PG     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
This "Freaky Friday" with basketball keeps throwing airballs. » Read Review Posted on Thursday August 23, 2012

(C) TMNT

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MPAA Rating: PG     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
They're teenagers, they're mutants, they're ninjas, and they're turtles.

Up from the sewers by way of some handy toxic waste, those Renaissance-named, three-fingered, ninja-fighting, pizza-e...

» Read Review Posted on Friday March 16, 2007

(A+) Tom Thumb

Genre: For the Whole Family
MPAA Rating:     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
The fairy tale about the boy no bigger than a thumb is brought to life with former gymnast Russ Tamblyn as the title character. Tom is as irresistibly charming as his "Very Own Song," one of many c...
» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B+) Treasure Planet

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MPAA Rating: PG     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
If “Treasure Planet” is not Disney at its best, it is still Disney at its still-pretty-much-better-than-anyone else, and well worth a look with this 10th anniversary re-release. It is based on ...
» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B+) The Truman Show

Genre: Satire
MPAA Rating:     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is an insurance salesman who gradually realizes that everyone around him is part of an elaborate "show," and that every aspect of his life has been orchestrated and broa...
» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(C+) The Trumpet of the Swan

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MPAA Rating:     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
Most of E.B. White’s elegant language is missing and the animation is nowhere near the Disney level, but the new animated version of "Trumpet of the Swan" (G, some tension and peril) is still a v...
» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B+) Two Brothers

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MPAA Rating:     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
This is the story of magnificent creatures gorgeously photographed in a story that is quietly told and genuinely touching.

Two tigers meet in the jungle of Southeast Asia and are drawn to o...

» Read Review Posted on Wednesday June 23, 2004



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