The Sony Pictures animated 3-D movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs opens today.  Rated PG for brief mild language, the movie is based on the 1978 children’s book of the same name written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett.  In this action-filled comedy, young scientist Flint Lockwood (voiced by SNL’s Bill Hader) invents a machine that [...]

    Some of the best kids movies of all time were made by Pixar Animation Studios (now owned by Disney.)  On the next rainy weekend, set the kids up with some popcorn and work your way through this list of Pixar’s first 10 feature films: Toy Story (1995|Rated G)  Fantastic kids movie about the life [...]

    Some great kids movies were made in the 1990s, including this list of our favorite G-rated kids movies: Toy Story 2 (1999)  The gang saves Woody from the toy museum in this best-ever kids movie sequel. A Bug’s Life (1998)  Pixar takes us to the miniature world of bugs. Mulan (1998)  Heroic girl fights in the [...]

      It rained today and our baseball and softball games were cancelled, so the whole family went to see Race to Witch Mountain.  Everyone liked it.  It had some cool special effects, a lot of exciting chase and escape scenes and some funny parts.  It was entertaining enough to keep my interest throughout the movie, though [...]

        Some wonderful kids movies have been released since 2000, including these G-Rated kids movie favorites: Ratatouille (2008)  A young French rat becomes head chef at a Paris restaurant. Wall-E (2008)  Lonely robot Wall-E finds love and his purpose in life. Charlotte’s Web (2007)  Classic story of friendship between a determined spider and a [...]