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The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)
How could they do this?!!
I've really been looking forward to this movie... not because I don't think the whole program is completely dumb, because I do, but because of Gordo. Gordo is a priceless character, someone that you look forward to spending time with each week. He caught my attention the first time I met him in 2001 and, if it weren't for him, I'd dismiss the show as totally worthless. But Gordo is a classic person, comic, caring, and holding high morals. Since he developed a romantic interest in Lizzie, I've been 'sitting on the edge of my seat', in a manner of speaking. I wanted him to have her, and I knew that their developing relationship was the show's trump card. Then I heard that the series was ending. But there was a movie to salvage everything and bring them together. I watched the movie, and was left with one feeling. I had been scandalized. Betrayed. And everything was done, and there was nothing to fill this void of yearning to know... what happens? No one will ever know.
The rest of the movie was essentially like the show except with more shots of (little bitty spoiler) people riding around on motorcycles and walking and running and laughing. Corny, worthless shots. I know that everybody that loves Gordo's character as I do will see this movie, and leave the theater with the same feeling that I have. And it makes me sick. There was so much potential, and they've blown it. It's over now.
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
Sickening
Though I found this movie altogether sickening, it was very well made and true to the subject. If you desire to know more about the Holocaust and Death Camps, Escape From Sobibor is a fabulously well made film. It is though, as I said, rather horrifying- I had to cover my eyes for minutes on end at one point.
Once Upon a Forest (1993)
Not bad
I saw this movie a few days ago for the first time since I was a very young child. I can say that I remember it, but, watching it again for the first time in several years, each scene made a new and different impression on me than it did the first time I watched it.
If I had blindly seen this movie for the first time, I would give an irritated comment. But I can remember what I thought as a six year old, and my sister remembers the same things. My much younger sister loves it as much as my sister and I did, and I can safely say that it doesn't instill any absurdities in a child. Truly, this film has no shades of gray, only black and white. But young children can't understand that many shades of gray, and no connection is made between (possible spoiler) the 'bad humans' in the movie and their own loving family.
If you're looking for an entertaining movie for your kids, I recommend that you rent "Once Upon a Forest". However, I don't recommend that you watch it with your kids, as, I'm certain, it will irritate the heck out of you.