“The Smurfs” on IMDB

Comedy, 103 Minutes, 2011

You know how every once in a while a movie comes along that looks really bad – horribly, terribly bad – but somehow manages to end up really good?  How a movie can sometimes triumph over the shortcomings of its source material and become something special? Sometimes its writing that’s smarter than it needs to be; or an oddly perfect marriage of actor and role; or even just an infectious love of something that most people consider too silly to consider?

Well – this movie ain’t none of that.

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“Rango” on IMDB

Comedy, 107 Minutes, 2011:

Rango can be, wrongly, lumped in with the increasingly large crop of disposable computer-animated family films.  Taken this way it’s a perfectly funny, appropriate story that will entertain your family for an afternoon.

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