Arctic Tale (2007, USA)
Release Date: 17 August 2007 (USA)
Genres: Documentary | Family
Directors: Sarah Robertson
Country: USA
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Arctic Tale offers the story of life north of the Arctic circle. As you might expect, life in the Arctic ain’t easy, even for native creatures.
This documentary chronicles the lives of two youngsters in one of the coldest places on Earth. Watch as Seela the walrus and Nanu the polar bear grow from newborns to teenagers and what it takes to survive in an environment that’s rapidly shrinking thanks to climate change.
Created by National Geographic, rest assured you’re getting the unvarnished truth in Arctic Tale, so what it lacks in dramatic writing in the narration it makes up for with a realistic look at how tough these animals actually have it.
Nevertheless, Arctic Tale is a kid-friendly, non-preachy window on the north as a place of wonder and a harbinger of change.
By focusing on Nanu, a polar bear, and Seela, a walrus, Robertson and Ravetch have made the doom-and-gloom global warming discussion that much more approachable for children. It’s equally potent for grown-ups, too: The inconvenient truth is made more inconvenient by seeing how it affects Arctic wildlife.
Tags: arctic, family, kids movie, polar bears
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A Dennis the Menace Christmas - Best Christmas Movie of 2007
Release Date: 20 November 2007 (Spain)
Actors: Maxwell Perry Cotton, Robert Wagner, Kim Schraner, George Newbern, Louise Fletcher, China Anne McClain, Heidi Hayes, Jake Beale, Isaac Durnford, Marie Matiko, Richard Dumont, Jack Noseworthy, Matthew Comeau, Godfrey, Michael Lerner
Directors: Ron Oliver
Country: Canada, USA
Plot: Dennis Christmas is a Dennis The Menace version of A Christmas Carol where Mr. Wilson plays his own version of Scrooge. While Dennis has problems of his own with the neighborhood bully, he does his best to try and give Mr. Wilson the Christmas Spirit. Dennis causes his usual damage and Mr. Wilson ends up breaking Dennis’ spirit. An Angel of Christmas Past Present and Future steps in to help save Christmas for the Mitchells, the Wilsons, and everyone else.
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For many, Dennis Mitchell (Dennis the menace) is an entertaining Sunday comic, or a special comic book that was read and giggled over during childhood. Kids are horrified and delighted at all the trouble Dennis creates, and parents think to themselves, thank goodness my kids aren’t like that. A Dennis The Menace Christmas brings some of those wild adventures to screen for the holidays in a colorful presentation.
The current Dennis film is set in the present, with things identifiable to the 21st century audience, such as computers and online shopping, cool bikes and the parents of spirited children support group. Dennis is still a well meaning if misguided youngster, played very well by Maxwell Cotton Perry, who at the time of the filming was actually only six years old.
Much of the action is jarring to the adult nerves, but wasn’t it ever so in Dennis stories? Children will writhe in agony at Dennis’s disasters. But the spirit of Christmas wins the day, with the help of an angel played by Godfrey.
The Wilsons played by Robert Wagner and Louise Fletcher are exactly the way you would want them to be, and Henry and Alice Mitchell, Dennis’s long suffering parents are strong in their belief that their son is not bad, just “spirited” and their love for him is evident.
Tags: christmas, family, maxwell perry cotton, robert wagner, ron oliver
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