Another great adventure into history with more nasty guys and some super new good guys and gals to help out our night guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) at the museum. This time it is the Smithsonian Institute, where all our old heroes have been sent for storage while their old home is updated for computer generated exhibits. Unfortunately our little monkey friend, Dexter, has taken the magic tablet with him and has awoken the evil pharoah Kahmunrah, who imprisons everyone in a container until they give him the tablet. Larry turns up to save the day and is joined by flying ace, Amelia Earheart, Abe Lincoln, General Custer and a giant squid, to overthrow Kahmunrah and his pack of baddies, including Al Capone, and Napolean Bonaparte. Funny, funny, funny.
Jack Bruno, a Las Vegas taxi driver, finds himself on an adventure when a brother and sister suddenly appear in his cab. They seem to have amazing powers, being able to stop trucks without getting hurt and moving objects around with their minds, and he realises that they are going to get him into lots of trouble! He seeks help from a famous UFO expert, Dr Friedman and together they manage to get the children to their destination, Witch Mountain, where their spaceship has been taken. His taxi isn’t quite the same by the end of the adventure, which includes being chased and, at times, captured by the military, fighting off the evil Siphon sent to distroy the children and generally trying to avoid everyone wanting to catch the 2 alien children. Race to Witch Mountain is full of adventures and funny too. 4 stars
Have you been to see Bedtime Stories, the new Adam Sandler movie? It is sooooo very funny, my daughter and I nearly fell off our seats! The basic story is that “uncle is childminding niece and nephew and begins to tell them a bedtime story. The kids chip in with some ideas (raining gumballs) and the next day that is what happens to him”. The ideas get weirder and funnier and when they say he will catch on fire, he gets really worried and goes to some very silly lengths to avoid this happening. Needless to say there is a twist on the fire idea and his life will never be the same. Fun, love and laughter abound! Go see it!
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Hi! This poll is for all movie lovers! Think hard and then tell us which was the best movie you went to in 2008. Vote on our poll to let us know what you think. You could also comment on this post to tell us why you thought it was the best!
p.s. you can also get to the poll from the kids homepage.
Did you go and see High School Musical 3 at the movies? We have a range of High School Musical books. Come in and check them out or reserve them off the website!
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You might know that Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (book one of the Inkworld trilogy*) has been turned into a movie (it will be in New Zealand around April this year). It stars Brendan Fraser (from George and the Jungle) as Mo Flochart and people say it’s good (although movies are nearly always not as good as the book, are they?). So if you’re planning on seeing the movie we recommend you re-read all the books before then, just so you remember what’s going on:
* Basically, in the Inkworld trilogy, Meggie Flochart discovers that her father Mo can bring make-believe characters from books to life by reading out loud.
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Hey, if you really, really love High School Musical you’ll be wanting to check out The Essential Guide (to HSM #1,2 and 3).
There are heaps of photos of your favourite stars, and lots of interesting facts. You can find out all you ever need to know (and some things you don’t) about Troy, Gabriella and the rest of the crew… what they like, what they don’t like and stuff like that.
The back cover also says you can join the Wildcats for their senior year!
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There are lots of fabulous redheads in movies that you can get out from the library. If the one you want isn’t at your branch then just reserve it! Here’s a list of some of them, if you think of more please add them into the comments section.
Pirates, shipwrecks, hungry tigers, houses built in trees, girls masquerading as boys, adventure and more await you in this classic movie. (You could also read the book.)
I began watching this classic movie again last night and when two of my (now grown up) children came into the room I would pause it on some obscure scene and see if they could guess what movie it was. Both of them could remember it, although it is many years since they had watched and watched and watched it (most school holidays I think) and they not only guessed the movie but would describe the next scene or two to me! The library at present only has copies in the adult dvd section but if you can talk your parents into borrowing it I’m sure you will enjoy it as much as we did and still do.
Nim is a young girl who lives with her father who is a scientist. Because he studies the sea the two of them live on an island all on their own – no neighbours or shops or movie theatres! When her dad goes to sea leaving Nim on her own, she has to cope with one disaster after another and finally calls on the writer of her favourite storybook hero to come and help her when her dad doesn’t return. What she doesn’t know is that the author is really a woman who suffers from agoraphobia (never leaves her house) and so she begins her own adventure to try to save Nim. A great movie with adventure and fun all the way through.
