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Good news for parents stockpiling kids DVDs for a late summer road trip - there are plenty of new kids DVD releases to keep your kids entertained in the back seat: 

• Barney: Sharing is Caring  Everyone’s favorite plush purple dinosaur promotes generosity.
• Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters  This Looney Tunes cartoon movie is an overdue tribute to Daffy Duck.
• The Tigger Movie (2-Disc 10th Anniversary Edition)  Tigger bounces along and discovers the true meaning of family.
• VeggieTales: Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah’s Umbrella  The veggies teach little ones to do the right thing in this Indiana Jones-like adventure.
• Super Friends: The Lost Episodes  Almost 3 hours of Super Friends shorts from the 1980s - that’s a lot of driving time.  Thanks, Superman.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition)  Re-release of three fun TMNT movies.  Yet another renaissance for Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello.
• The Last Starfighter: 25th Anniversary Edition  Greetings, Starfighter!  Today’s young gamers should still appreciate this one.
• Race to Witch Mountain (Single-Disc Edition)  I liked the original movies better, but my kids are Dwayne Johnson fans.
• Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure 3-D  Top quality underwater prehistoric tour from National Geographic.  So cool.

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• Kids Movie Review: Race to Witch Mountain

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 it started to feel a little long towards the end.

There were no really ‘bad’ parts or language.  The PG rating is due to some scary scenes and violence, mostly gunfire and explosions.  My 5 year old daughter (who is tougher than most) really liked the movie, but hugged my arm and hid under her jacket for a few scenes - like when the bad alien’s helmet came off and revealed his gooey head.

I enjoyed the cameo roles of Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann who played Tia and Tony in the original Escape to Witch Mountain in 1975.  These actors appeared in the restaurant scene as the helpful waitress and the police officer.  Many reviews of the 2009 version say it is not as good as the 1975 classic.  I remember that I loved the original as a kid, but I do not remember a lot of the movie or why I liked it so much.  My kids asked which version I liked better.  I ordered the DVD to refresh my memory and to let my kids decide for themselves which is better.

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