Cheaper By The Dozen

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Son’s Review

Summary: The movie is about this family that are poor and are having a hard time making a living. The dad decides that they need to move because he is offered a job. The family is sad. When they move the family is not a strong relational family. They are so sad that kids run away back home. They get found and they all move back home.

Favorite Character: Beans

Favorite Scene: My favorite scene is when one kid is sad because his frog dies and the whole family has a funeral for him.

Thing I Would Change: I would change the scene when all the kids call their brother Fed-EX because they are telling him that he doesn't belong.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Daughter’s Review

Summary: There is this family who has 12 children they are very hard to raise. The dad got a job so they had to move. The children are having a hard time making friends. The children want to move to there old house. One of the children ran away because he liked its old house better and they found him. Then they moved back to their old house.

Favorite Character: The black piggy tailed sister

Favorite Scene: When their older sister has a boy friend and the little kids soaked his underwear in meat.

Thing I Would Change: It is when the boyfriend said are you popping any more out.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Summary: The movie is about this poor family that can't make a living. Charlie’s family gets him a chocolate bar for his birthday and he was lucky and got a golden ticket. The Golden ticket meant that he could go to Willy Wonka's factory . Willy Wonka's factory is the place that makes all the chocolate bars. Charlie and his grandpa go to the factory and they were the ones that were least rotten and won the special prize. The special prize was the factory, but Charlie had to give up his whole family and Charlie said no. Willy Wonka's “family” are oompa loompas. Later Charlie meets Wonka again and tells him how important it is to have a family. Wonka later lets Charlie and his family come to live in the factory.

Favorite Character: Willy Wonka

Favorite Scene: My favorite scene is when Willy Wonka is talking to the kids in the factory and tells them that everything in the room is edible and even he is edible and he says that is called cannibalism and is frowned upon in most countries.

Thing I Would Change: I don't have anything that I would change.

Rating: 5 out of 5

Daughter’s Review

Summary: There is this little boy named Charlie. He is very poor. His family lives in a crooked house. The whole family lives in the same house. There is a famous guy named Willy Wonka who opened a chocolate factory. Charlie hears that Willy Wonka is handing out golden tickets and whoever finds them goes to his factory and Charlie did.and then Charlie won a reward. His whole factory. And Charlie disagreed and at the end they lived in the factory.

Favorite Character: Willy Wonka

Favorite Scene: My favorite scene when Charlie and Wonka comes home through the roof and the grandma says, “I think somones at the door.”

Thing I Would Change: I would change when a little boy calls Willy Wonka an idiot.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Cars

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Summary: In this movie all the the characters are cars and they can talk. Lightning McQueen is a famous race car. Lightning McQueen ties with two other cars and they have to do another race a week later in California. While they are driving to California, Lightning falls asleep. When he wakes up, He freaks out and starts driving really fast and hits a nail and ruins the whole road in this town. All the people are upset and make him fix it. The girl who didn't like him starts to like him and Lightning finds a best friend named Mater. When Lightning starts to go to the race all his friends come with him and cheer him on. Lightning was in 1st place but one car got hurt and Lightning decided to help that car then win the race because the town taught him how to be a better person.

Favorite Character: Mater

Favorite Scene: My favorite scene is when Mater and Lighting are going up at night and are scaring everybody. Mater honks his horn and it scares everybody so much that the tractors flip over.

Thing I Would Change: I don't have anything I would change.

Rating: 5 out of 5

Daughter’s Review

Summary: Lighting McQueen is a famous race car. At the beginning of the movie he and another two cars tie in a big race so there will be another race to break the tie. Lightning McQueen is on his way to California. Mack is the big truck that carries Lightning from race to race. Mack fell asleep on accident and a button was pressed and it caused the back of the truck to open and Lightning fell out. When Mack got to California everybody wondered where Lightning was. Lightning ended up on route 66 where he met many other cars. A police car was chasing him because he was going too fast and he destroyed their road. He was sent to the judge and he was ordered to fix the road that he broke. He became friends with a girl car. There is a tow truck named Mater who is really crazy. They really like having Lightning McQueen around but later one of the cars called the people who ran the race in California and Lightning ended up going to the race. In the race, he keeps thinking of the girl car he met at route 66 and he loses the race because he helps another famous race car finish after that car crashed.

Favorite Character: Mater

Favorite Scene: When Mater shows Lightning how to honk and scare the tractors because when they honk, the tractors fall over because they were sleeping.

Thing I Would Change: I would change the scene when Hudson (a car from route 66) got hurt in the crash.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Bugsy Malone

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Summary: This movie takes place in the 1930’s.  All the actors are kids around my age although in the movie they are all playing grown ups.  The movie is about Fat Sam and Dandy Dan, which lead two different groups of gangs.  Fat Sam owns this place called Fat Sam’s Grand Slam Speakeasy.  Dandy Dan wants to take that place over and they fight against each other with pies.  If you get hit with a pie, you are dead.  The movie, like Annie, is a musical.  Fat Sam hires Bugsy Malone to help him win.  Bugsy Malone falls in love with Blousy Brown who is a singer at Fat Sam’s place.

Favorite Character: Bugsy Malone

Favorite Scene: When the guy named Knuckles who works for Fat Sam keeps popping his knuckles and it is driving everyone crazy.

Thing I Would Change: There is a scene when Blousy is trying out for a singing job at another place and the main star there sings.  She was a lousy singer.  I would remove that scene.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Daughter’s Review

Summary: In this movie, all the actors are kids who are pretending to be grown ups. This movie (like Annie) is a musical. Fat Sam owns a speakeasy. There are a lot of girls that sing at his place. There are other people who work for Dandy Dan and they shoot Fat Sam's gang with pies. In this movie, if you get hit with a pie, you die. Fat Sam is trying to figure how to beat Dandy Dan. Bugsy Malone helps Fat Sam to fight Dandy Dan. He is also is falling in love with Blousy Brown who wants to be a singer and a movie star. She and Bugsy fall in love. In the final scene, there is a big pie fight where everybody gets covered in pies but they do not die. In the end, the sing a song and all become friends.

Favorite Character: Bugsy Malone

Favorite Scene: The final scene when everybody is throwing pies at each other.

Thing I Would Change: I did not like it that people died when they got hit with pies.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Bridge to Terabithia

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Summary: There is this boy and girl that meet at school and become good friends. They create a secret hiding place and call it Terabithia. The only way to get to it is by swinging on the rope to the other side of a creek. After a severe thunderstorm the girl tries to swing over the very high creek but the rope breaks and she hits her head. Later, the boy let’s his sister to come play in Terabithia and he even builds a bridge so it is safer to get across.

Favorite Character: Leslie

Favorite Scene: My favorite scene is when the girl asks the boy if he has any sisters and he says, “Yeah, I got 4 of them and I would trade them all for a good dog.”

Thing I Would Change: I wouldn't change anything.

Rating: 5 out of 5

Daughter’s Review

Summary: There is a boy and a girl who meet and become best friends. They created a pretend place called Terabithia. They have many adventures in this pretend place. One time a giant saved the boy when he fell from a tree. The only way to get to Terabithia was to swing on a rope over a creek. One day, the girl tries to go to Terabithia by herself and the rope break and she dies. The boy is very sad but he decides to share his imaginary place with his little sister who he would never let come to Terabithia. He even builds a wooden bridge for safer crossing. A t then end he fives her a crown as she is now the princess of Terabithia.

Favorite Character: Leslie

Favorite Scene: There's a bully who won't allow them use the restroom during lunchtime at school. Leslie gets the kids to march toward the bully and chant, “FREE THE PEE! FREE THE PEE!”

Thing I Would Change: I would like more funny scenes.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Black Beauty

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Summary: It is about this black horse that keeps on getting sold to other people. He falls in love with one horse and then is sold to another person. The horse that he is in love with dies from being mistreated. Then he is sold back right to where he was and lives happily ever after.

Favorite Character: Black Beauty

Favorite Scene: My favorite scene is when it said “The End”.

Thing I Would Change: I would change of how Black Beauty had to keep on moving from owner to owner.

Rating: 2 out of 5

Daughter’s Review

Summary: A mommy horse is giving birth to a baby horse . This horse keeps on moving. The horse goes back to home.

Favorite Character: Black Beauty

Favorite Scene: When the horse first puts his horse shoes and he walks like a soldier.

Thing I Would Change: I do not have any.

Rating: 5 out of 5

Andre

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Summary: It is about this family that loves animals. A seal that lost its mother came to the family and stayed there. He did all kinds of weird stuff. The youngest daughter was attached to the seal and was sad that they let him go in the ocean. The seal knew his way back home and visited them every summer.

Favorite Character: Andre

Favorite Scene: My favorite scene is when the seal is watching TV because seals usually don't watch TV.

Thing I Would Change: I wouldn't change anything.

Rating: 5 out of 5

Daughter’s Review

Summary: A baby seal lost his mom. These people are taking care of him. One day Andre went missing then they found him. Andre watches too much TV. They take Andre to an aquarium. Then they let him go

Favorite Character: Andre

Favorite Scene: When Andre watches TV and makes these noises.

Thing I Would Change: I do not have any.

Rating: 5 out of 5