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It seems to me that censorship takes so many different forms that it is hard to keep up with them all. All it takes is a unique point of view and some group will find fault with it.

* Wizards and witches?…No, my child shouldn’t read about that!
* The church hierarchy is human?…No way!
* An alternate theory to the life of Christ?…It isn’t possible.

Why don’t Catholics just go with the flow and realize that these books being written are FICTION?

Something that was supposed to be taught in school is the difference between fiction and non-fiction. I believe Catholics (and several other denominations) should have a quick brush up on the definitions of these two terms:

Fiction: Literature concerning imaginary characters and events. (See that…imaginary.)

Non-Fiction: A factual literary work.

The most recent uproar is surrounding “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown. It began when the book was first released and is now making a comeback due to the big screen release of the movie.

Some of the thoughts put forth in the book are:
* Christ was married to Mary Magdalene and wanting her to be head of the church.
* There are secret organizations inside of the Catholic Church.
* Several secret meanings hidden in artwork, children’s movies, etc.

However, last time I looked, “The Da Vinci Code” is shelved in the FICTION section of the library. (I am a librarian, I should know.) That means that this book is not true…so why are religious persons taking it as “gospel”?

I personally don’t believe the Bible should be shelved in with the non-fiction. I can see it possibly being shelved as “historic fiction”, as some items have been proven to have happened. The bulk of it cannot and will never be proven as fact, so I don’t know how it can be considered a factual literary work.

So, to all the “Harry Potter” fans, “Da Vinci Code” fans, and all the fans of book that these groups are trying to take off our shelves…KEEP READING! If these groups were so comfortable with their ideas, they wouldn’t be so all-fired up about taking away others.  By Rebecca Lanham

“We put an explosive charge inside your head.”

Now that can only be a good thing if it’s the first line of a movie that you’re sitting in the theater to see. However, if you’re Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible III, it adds a little stress to your already tense scenario of having a gun pointed at your head and your fiancée bound and gagged in front of you. And that kind of tension just doesn’t wither away.

Thankfully.

Mission: Impossible III is the best mission yet. Action movies tend to be formulaic and sequels obviously even more so, yet M:I III manages to keep the audience guessing, clinching and exclaiming “That’s so cool!” Sure it has the requisite explosions, gadgets and one-liners, but there is a freshness to it. J.J. Abrams might be why.

Each “Mission” has had a different director (Brian De Palma and John Woo respectively,) but after Tom Cruise watched a couple episodes of the television show “Alias,” he knew Abrams was his man for the third installment. With him, success was inevitable. Master of dynamic tempo and delicious intrigue, Abrams knows how to showcase impossible missions.

The rest of the team did well in choosing to accept this risky mission of sequel making. Led by Tom Cruise, the cast is stocked with talent. Say what you want about Cruise, he explodes on the big screen. I don’t know if it’s because he jumps on couches in real life but when he jumps tall buildings in the movies, it seems so feasible. If anybody can get through all of this, it’s Ethan Hunt and his team.

Ving Rhames returns as the ever faithful Luther and injects droll comic relief. Maggie Q dons audacious attire for the Vatican and Jonathan Rhys Meyers flies through windmills to support their team leader. Billy Crudup defends him in the IMF home office while the always stellar Laurence Fishburne harasses him like only a superior can.

Playing Hunt’s fiancée is Michelle Monaghan who bears a resemblance to Katie Holmes that isn’t a little creepy. (She doesn’t curl up only one side of her mouth when she speaks, but otherwise…) But who we’re all really watching is Philip Seymour Hoffman. With his Oscar win, we’re sure to see more of him in roles as awesome as this. Okay, truthfully the role isn’t that extraordinary, what he does with it is.

In between escalating missions that take Hunt and his team to industrial Berlin, downtown Shanghai and the impenetrable Vatican, Hunt is at home with his fiancée trying to create a normal life. The far-reaching plotline, inherent in this cinematic genre, wins credibility with its simple love story. Instead of another whirlwind adventure with the invulnerable adrenaline addict, Ethan Hunt is now an instructor who wants a life and a family. He is now the reluctant agent. That makes his reentry into the field more dramatic and the chases, threats and close calls matter just a little bit more because of it. 

Unlike many action movies that eventually incite you to cry ‘enough with the explosions,’ Abrams seems to have a genuine knack for storytelling and its innate rhythm which makes this film the most pleasurable of the series. With that said, get ready to shake your head in disbelief - especially when Meyers wears jeans into the Vatican. That would just never happen.

Ultimately, the real mission impossible is making a third movie in a franchise original, alive and worth seeing. Somehow J.J. Abrams, Tom Cruise and a stellar cast pull it off big time. They also offer us a fair warning: if you ever get kidnapped by bad guys, don’t let them shoot anything up your nose. This is very, very bad.

“Am I a sex symbol?” young Irish actor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers asked in the March edition of Australian OK! Magazine.  “You don’t live with me so you don’t know!”

The dark-haired, blue-eyed actor with the pointed chin and trademark pout has certainly set women’s hearts aflame everywhere, whatever he says! But he is not just relying on his good looks to get ahead. His performances, especially in his two latest movies, “Match Point” and “Elvis” have impressed critics and audiences alike.

28 years old, Meyers was born on July 27, 1977, in Dublin with a heart condition and baptized quickly because his family thought that he might not survive.  After months in hospital, he struggled through only to face a tough childhood.

His mother left when he was only 3, leaving his father to raise Jonathan and his three younger brothers, Jamie, Alan and Paul.  He didn’t do well at school and was expelled at the age of 16.  From then on he hung around pool halls where, surprisingly, he was discovered by Hubbard Casting.  Meyers began his career with a Knorr soup commercial but soon obtained roles in films, including “Michael Collins” in which he played a tough young assassin, “The Killer Tongue“, “Finbar” and “Samson and Delilah”.

His big break came at the age of 19 when he played the fictional glam rocker, Brian Slade in “The Velvet Goldmine.” In Washington D.C. Sidewalk’s review, Meyers was described as “… radiating intensity and attitude more than emotion,” and “perfect as an ultimately vacant icon.” A talented musician as well as actor, Meyers also sang some of the songs in the film.

Recently he took on the huge role of playing American pop idol, Elvis, for which he won a Golden Globe and excellent reviews.

In Woody Allen’s film, “Match Point” Jonathan plays a young Irishman impressed by his wealthy girlfriend’s life in London’s Belgravia.  His bete noire arrives when he falls for the beautiful American girl, Nola (Scarlett Johansson) who is going out with his girlfriend’s brother.  His attraction to her could ruin everything for this character, Chris Wilton, who doesn’t want to give up his expensive lifestyle. He is described by Meyers in an interview by Graham Fuller as Machiavellian. (The Hotsy Totsy Jonathan Meyers)

In the same interview, Meyers also admits to being Machiavellian and being able to turn on his charm ‘like tap water’.  However, although he once said that he only took up acting because ‘it kept him off the streets and out of jail’ now he approaches his career with passion.

Surprisingly the Byronic-looking young actor has said that he doesn’t understand women, and he was caught in a fight with his girlfriend, Reena Hammer, last December.  However, when his co-star, Scarlett Johansson, was ‘left battered and bruised after a love scene shot in freezing cold rainwater with co-star Jonathan Rhys-Meyers for Woody Allen’s new movie “Match Point”, in which the pair play passionate lovers Rhys-Meyers sent Johansson flowers after the outdoor scene got a little out of hand.

Clearly this charming Irish actor has a big future ahead of him, both in acting and in romance!

Noel Coward called the beautiful actress Vivien Leigh Shakespeare’s ‘lass unparalleled’.  She shone as the gutsy Scarlett in “Gone with the Wind“; wrenched hearts in “Waterloo Bridge” and was the perfect choice for the tormented Blanche in Tennessee William’s “A Streetcar named Desire“.  Magnetic and talented, Vivien Leigh had a brilliant career and a great love affair with the handsome young English actor Laurence Olivier.  Unfortunately, her life was afflicted with severe manic depression for which there was no cure.  If Vivien had not had to endure this, her career may have been even more illustrious and her marriage to Laurence Olivier may have lasted.

Born in India on November 5, 1913, exotic looking young Vivien came from an Irish, French and Roman Catholic heritage.  Like Scarlett in “Gone with the Wind”, the most famous character she played, Vivien was convent educated.  She went to school in England after her parents returned from India in 1920.

Skilled at drama, Vivien was accepted into the prestigious Academy of Dramatic Art, but her studies were cut short when she married Herbert Leigh Holman, a barrister, at the tender age of eighteen.  Herbert was much older at thirty-one.  They had a daughter, Suzanne, but Vivien was ambitious and showed more interest in acting than motherhood.

Her film career began with a minor role in “Things are Looking Up”.  After Vivien decided to adopt Leigh as her professional surname she made three more minor films, but remained relatively unnoticed, to her chagrin.  Pretty and vivacious, Vivien was determined to get ahead. 

Her luck changed when Alexander Korda, the great producer, spotted her, casting her as a lady-in-waiting in “Fire Over England“, about the English queen, Elizabeth 1.  This was not only the turning-point in her film career:  Vivien played next to the dashing and charismatic Laurence Olivier.  Passionate and good-looking, the young couple, both married to others, could not hide their attraction to each other.  It was love at first sight for Vivien, at least, as soon as she saw the tall and darkly handsome Olivier.                     

Gone with the Wind became a bestseller in 1939. As soon as it became known that David O’Selznick would direct the film, famous actresses, such as Norma Shearer and Bette Davis clamored for the part of Scarlett.  Scarlett, a beautiful young Southern belle, lost everything in the Civil War but managed to begin again.  The book had everything: unrequited love, war, suffering and an unforgettable heroine in Scarlett, and hero in Rhett Butler.  When Vivien Leigh first read this great drama she was determined to play Scarlett.

David O’Selznick began filming “Gone With The Wind” without his Scarlett.  Although actress after actress tested for the part all were deemed unsuitable.  Vivien was in Hollywood at the time with Laurence, who was acting in “Wuthering Heights” with William Wyler.  Wyler, impressed with Vivien’s talent, introduced her to his agent, the brother of David O’Selznick.  Myron knew that Vivien could be the Scarlett his brother needed.

He took her to the set as the first scene ‘The Burning of Atlanta’ was being filmed.  Scarlett and Rhett have to guide an old wagon through an Atlanta cruelly set on fire by Sherman’s army in this scene.  The problem was that there was no Scarlett.  The back lot really was set alight, and the scene was set, except for Scarlett.  As green-eyed, raven-haired Vivien stepped onto the set lit up by the brilliant glow of the flames, Myron told his brother:  “David, I want you to meet Scarlett O’Hara.”

Myron was right.  No other actress could have played Scarlett better than Vivien, who made this selfish but courageous and lively character come to life.  Deservedly, she won the Oscar for best actress.

This is her best-known and undoubtedly best-loved role but Vivien also made other memorable films. These included “Waterloo Bridge”, in which she played a young girl forced to turn to prostitution to make a living during The Second World War, and “That Hamilton Woman“, in which she played Emma to Laurence Olivier’s Nelson.

Vivien unfortunately started to suffer severely because her manic episodes increased.  During the filming of “Elephant Walk”, set in Sri Lanka, she drank and began an affair with the Australian Peter Finch.  Eventually she had to be taken back to England and another actress, Elizabeth Taylor, took over.  Manic depression was not understood in those days and Vivien was sent to a psychiatric hospital where she had to endure hydrotherapy and terrifying electric shock treatment.  Her miscarriage at the age of forty-two only made her more depressed.

Laurence Olivier continued to achieve brilliant success on the stage and in films.  He was knighted in 1947, but Vivien’s career continued to head downhill.  This upset her greatly.

When Vivien discovered that Laurence had begun to see another actress, Joan Plowright, Vivien became even more unhappy and bought a place in Sussex where she could spend some time alone.  Laurence married Joan Plowright three months after their divorce in 1960.

Vivien married again - to Jack Merivale, a fellow actor whom she had met long before in the stage production of “Romeo and Juliet”.  In spite of her sadness about Larry, the love of her life, and her continuing manic depression she managed to achieve some success in the sixties, winning a Tony and a second Oscar.   Vivien Leigh died in 1967 of TB.

Friends With Money is a romantic comedy directed by Nicole Holofcener. The story revolves around the lives of 4 female friends (1 single, 3 married). There is no plot to the movie; instead it focuses on how each friend reacts to their problems.The first woman in the quartet is Olivia (Jennifer Aniston). She is a single woman down in the dumps. She works as a maid, likes to smoke weed, and lets people walk over her (while on a blind date, she allows the guy to chat up another woman, then agrees to go out with him again). It doesn’t help that Olivia’s friends think all her problems would be over if she “got married.” The irony is that their own marriages all have problems.

1. Kate Jackson and Cheryl Ladd starred in the 1973 horror film, Satan’s School for Girls before they worked together as Charlie’s Angels.

2. David Copperfield, the magician and ex-beau of supermodel Claudia Schiffer, appeared in Terror Train along with scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis.

3. Prana Films, the company that produced the 1922 silent film horror classic, Nosferatu, declared bankruptcy after the film’s release to avoid paying copyright infringement costs to Florence Stoker, the irate widow of deceased Dracula novelist, Bram Stoker.

4. Wes Craven, the director of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, says that Freddy Krueger was named after a kid who bullied him in school. His appearance was based on a hobo who scared the horror master when he was a child.

5. The original title of Hellraiser, horror writer Clive Barker’s directorial debut, was Sadomasochists from Beyond the Grave.

6. Daria Nicolodi was Dario Argento’s long-time partner. She collaborated with him on a number of his films including the classics Deep Red: The Hatchet Murders and Suspiria. She is also the mother of Asia Argento.

7. John Landis directed An American Werewolf in London. He wrote the screenplay for the film when he was only 19. He would go on to direct one of the most famous - and expensive - music videos of all time, Michael Jackson ’s Thriller.

8. The apartment on Prospect Avenue in Washington, D.C. where many of the scenes of The Exorcist were filmed, was once inhabited by William Peter Blatty, the author of the novel on which the film was based. He lived there while a student at Georgetown University.

9. Linda Hamilton was moonlighting during her stint as Vicki in Children of the Corn. She was working on The Terminator at the same time.

10. The fake blood used in the original Dawn of the Dead was created from a mixture of food coloring, peanut butter and cane sugar syrup.

11. The house used in Rob Zombie’s House of 1,000 Corpses was the same house used in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

12. Leatherface, the terrifying character from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre films, is based on a real-life serial killer, Ed Gein. Gein liked to dress up in the skin of his victims. This habit also inspired Thomas Harris, the writer of The Silence of the Lambs. His Buffalo Bill character did the same thing.

13. Cary Elwes, who starred as Larry, an unwitting player in the Jigsaw puzzle killer’s game from the 2004 film, Saw, has played a serial killer himself. He was Ted Bundy in The Green River Killer and the unlikely murderer in Kiss the Girls with Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman.

14. Sigourney Weaver was nominated for an academy award as Best Actress - her first nomination - for her portrayal of Ellen Ripley in the 1986 sci-fi / horror classic, Aliens, the sequel of the 1979 original Alien.

15. Charles Lee Ray, the name given to the maniacal killer whose soul comes to inhabit a doll we all know better as Chucky, from the Child’s Play movies, is a combination of three horrifying - and real-life murderers. “Charles” comes from Charles Manson, “Lee” from Lee Harvey Oswald and “Ray” from James Earl Ray.

16. Stephen King supposedly wrote the part of Amanda in Cat’s Eye with Drew Barrymore in mind. She was a family friend of the King’s who loved cats. Drew once said that, ‘at night, Stephen would tell the best scary stories ever’.

17. Adrienne Barbeau was married to horror master, John Carpenter, from 1979-1984. She appeared in The Fog, Escape from New York, Someone’s Watching Me and Creepshow during that time.

18. Johnny Depp and Patricia Arquette both appeared in Nightmare on Elm Street films. Depp was Glen in the original Elm Street and Patricia, sister of Rosanna, David and Alexis, starred in the 3rd installment, which is also known as Dream Warriors.

19. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a silent film created in Germany during the tail end of World War I (1919). It is credited as the first modern-horror movie.

20. In the year 2000, the Library of Congress in the United States declared the 1928 horror film, Fall of the House of Usher, which is based on the Edgar Allen Poe story of the same name, as ‘culturally significant’. It was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

21. Mario Bava, the director of the 1960 horror classic, Black Sunday (La Maschera del Demonio) is the father of Lamberto Bava, who directed the Demons´ films. He also worked with Dario Argento on his 1980 film, Inferno.

22. Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t have to audition for her role as Kim Hammond in Prom Night (1980). She won the role based on her previous horror film work which included Halloween, Terror Train and The Fog.

23. In Psycho the 1960 film starring Jamie Lee Curtis’ mama, Janet Leigh, chocolate sauce was used to simulate the blood in the shower scene. Hitchcock stabbed a melon with a knife to create the slashing sounds.

24. Little Shop of Horrors (1960) is the fastest film ever shot. Roger B. Corman, a producer behind a multitude of B-movie classics, used the camera himself. Each scene was shot in one take. Filming was completed in two days and one night.

25. Poltergeist was directed by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), not Steven Spielberg. Spielberg was a producer of the film, however.

Benchwarmers is about three guys, Gus (Rob Schneider), Richie (David Spade) and Clark (Napoleon Dynamite’s own John Heder) who are sick and tired of being bullied and teased. Gus runs his own landscaping company and has a beautiful wife, played by model turned actress Molly Sims. They’re planning on starting a family someday. However, Gus has some secrets he’s keeping.

Gus is also very protective of his friends. He doesn’t like to see people being bullied. Richie and Clark have seen their share of bullies in their lives. Richie, who has a fantastic Dorothy-Hamill bowl-cut from the 70s, works at a video store and has never kissed a girl. He lives in a trailer with his agoraphobic, coiffed-alike brother, Howie (Nick Swardson). Howie eats sunblock and is afraid that the sun is trying to destroy him. Clark is a helmet-wearing, bicycle driving paperboy who still lives with his mother.

One day, Gus watches some bullies pick on a curly-haired little boy named Nelson (Max Prado). He is incensed and comes to the boy’s aid. He challenges the bullying little leaguers to play him and his friends in a ball game for rights to the field. Despite the fact that Richie and Clark have never played baseball in their lives, the trio wins. Nelson tells his dad all about the guys. His dad, Mel, played by Jon Lovitz is a billionaire geek who got picked on as a kid too. He has decided to put his money behind the Benchwarmers.

This project saves Mel from buying more geek paraphenalia such as Star Wars trinkets, the Batman car and ‘Kit’ from Knight Rider. The Benchwarmers will be taking on a bunch of Little League teams in a single-elimination tournament. The prize is a fully-functional baseball field with fantastic amenities like a swimming pool. The field also boasts the best of Wrigley Field, Fenway Park and other ‘legendary’ ball parks.

As the Benchwarmers start to play, geeks across the world resonate with their message. The games are available over the internet, complete with nerdy commentators. The bullies get angry that the geeks are besting them in this competition and start to play dirty. They hire a Central American ball player with depression and an alcohol problem to pose as a 12 year old boy. The Benchwarmers retaliate by buying him some tequila and beer. Their tactic works best as the Benchwarmers remain undefeated until the championship game.

However, the bullies do find some dirt out about Gus. It seems that Gus, although he’s very short, wasn’t a geek as a child. He was a first-class bully. He was the enemy. He tormented a poor, little person so ruthlessly that the boy went to a mental hospital to try to recover. Gus, who’s wife didn’t know he was playing for the Benchwarmers, sees his story on the news and urges her husband to ask for forgiveness so that he can move on with his life.

He does; but, will the geeks and Benchwarmers forgive him? Will he get to play in the championship game? Will the nerds prevail?

This story has a feel-good ending. In fact, the film is pretty feel good throughout. The makers of the film take a message that could be preachy and make it entertaining, funny and fun. I’d highly recommend that you take your kids to this film. It’s great for bully and nerd alike! Admit it - we all were one or the other, right?

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This is a political thriller directed by Clark Johnson. I went to see this movie because I thought I couldn’t go wrong - it contains a strong cast and the plot was interesting. I was disappointed.

The plot involves former members of the KGB conspiring to assassinate the President. The assassins have a mole within the team of Secret Service agents assigned to protect the President.

Michael Douglas plays veteran agent Pete Garrison. Garrison, who is having an affair with the First Lady, is trapped when he is blackmailed about the affair, and framed for being the mole.

Special agent Breckinridge (Kiefer Sutherland) is put in charge of investigating who the mole is. However, his investigation of Garrison is biassed. Garrison is a former friend whom he longer trusts (he believes Garrison had an affair with his wife).

Good performances by both Sutherland and Douglas. Jill Maren (Eva Longoria) did not give a convincing performance as an agent assigned to protect the President. How effectively can you run after an assassin with 5 inch heels?

During the investigation, it’s business as usual for the President (David Rasche). He is as busy as ever, pays too little attention to his wife, and is constantly surrounded by bodyguards. Meanwhile, First Lady Sarah Ballentine (Kim Basinger) portrays herself as a dutiful woman to the public, but is having an affair with Garrison behind closed doors.

The Sentinel could have been a great movie. However, while the most of actors perform well, the scenes were not powerful enough. Take for example the assassination attempt on the President. This is the focus of the movie, but is a big letdown. The scene seemed rushed, and everything conveniently falls into place at that time. As well, there is not much originality in this much-anticipated scene.

You won’t be missing much if you decide not to see this movie. Let me know your opinion, by adding your comments below.

For those with little children, perhaps you’ve heard of Ice Age, the 2002 film starring the voice talents of Ray Romano (Manny the Mammoth), John Leguizamo (Sid the Sloth) and Denis Leary (Diego the Saber-Toothed Tiger) and Chris Wedge (director and everyone’s favorite squirrel hunting down a nut, Scrat)? If you haven’t, that’s too bad. Ice Age was a great film for the entire family.

Usually, you can’t strike family comedy gold twice in a lifetime. And almost never with the same characters. Of course, major and not-so major entertainment conglomerations try and try again. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown is a refreshing anomaly in a world of bad sequels. It’s fresh, funny and very good. In fact, in some ways it may be superior to the original.

This time, Manny, Sid and Diego, who’ve come together to form the most unlikely of herds, are faced with new perils. The Ice Age is just about over. The world is beginning to thaw. As the ice melts, the water is rising dangerously. Fast Tony, voiced by “Tonight Show” host, Jay Leno, is scaring the animals in the hopes of turning a profit on shoddy products that are supposed to ’save their lives’.

Manny calls Fast Tony out as a liar; but then realizes that there is some truth to the doomsday talk. He, Sid and Diego discover when they take a trip to the top of the ice mountain that the water is rapidly rising and a massive flood is imminent in about three days time.

Everyone heads up and moves out. The eagles, who are sort of hoping that there will be mass destruction - it’s good for their food supply - say there’s a boat at the end of the valley. The animals go without much delay.

Meantime, Manny is still wrestling with the fact that he’s the last mammoth; or, so everyone else believes. He takes some time alone in the forest to think. Instead, he finds a lady mammoth, Ellie (Queen Latifah). Problem is - Ellie thinks she’s a possum. Her extreme-sports-loving brothers, Crash (Sean William Scott) and Eddie (Josh Peck), love her and don’t do anything to dispel her of the notion.

The “possums” became part of Manny, Sid and Diego’s posse. Together, they have quite an adventurous trip. Sid and Diego try to urge Manny to let the past go and start a new future with Ellie, who eventually realizes she is a mammoth after all.

If this weren’t enough, the crew has a nasty alligator and his cronie to contend with. The same ones who gave them trouble in the first film and were put on ice have also melted. Time in the ‘cooler’ has done nothing to squash their anger. They’re out for revenge.

As the world is about to end, can Manny and Ellie find love? Will Manny be able to save them all from destruction - and learn to live and love again? These questions of course have positive - and perhaps, stock - answers. The way the movie gets to those answers is still worth the whole trip and the price of admission.

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown is a great movie. It’s entertaining, funny, poignant and just a fantastic way to spend an afternoon with or without the kids.

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Curious about the movie Curious George? It’s hard to resist a cute little monkey and an animated Will Ferrell and Drew Barrymore. Top it off with a gentle soundtrack by Jack Johnson and you have a movie the whole family will enjoy.

This movie is great for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. The bad guy isn’t so bad. Instead, he’s a jealous son who wants to turn the museum into a parking lot. He’s more of a nuisance than a heavy handed tough guy.

Curious George is a delight to watch on the big screen. Jack Johnson’s music compliments the antics of this fun loving music making the movie enjoyable for Mom and Dad too. The storyline isn’t complicated but its captivating enough to keep the interest of even the wiggliest of kids.

Will Ferrell adds a few chuckles but they are all in good taste. And Drew Barrymore is as sweet as ever as the young school teacher with an obvious crush on the “Man With The Yellow Hat.”

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