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For ages 4-10 Ice Age 2: The Meltdown Opens March 31 Rated G Manfred, Sid and Diego saved a baby boy in the 2002 hit original, but for the sequel it’s all about saving their own kind. The animals are delighting in the end of the Ice Age, but our heroic woolly mammoth, sloth and saber-toothed tiger discover that the miles of melted ice will flood their valley. Time to move their prehistoric patooties! Back to voice the central critters are Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary. Also returning is Scrat, the hapless saber-toothed squirrel who never catches a break or an acorn. New to the voice cast are Queen Latifah and Drea De Matteo as love interests for Manny and Sid, along with Seann William Scott, Josh Peck and Jay Leno. Deep Sea 3D Opens March 3 Rated G Get up-close and impersonal with the giant octopus and Scorpion fish while sitting in an IMAX theater and wearing those unbecoming 3-D glasses. Viewers will take in the underwater eye candy while learning about how every animal, even the bizarre rainbow nudibranch, is dependent on another for survival. Director Howard Hall has made two other IMAX documentaries. For ages 6-11 The Shaggy Dog Opens March 10 Rated PG OK, now it’s just sad. Disney, whose last stroke of genius was to turn its 36-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean ride into a movie, reaches deep in its vault for another rehash. Didn’t anyone over at the Mouse House see the numbers on “Herbie: Fully Loaded,” “Treasure Planet” and “Around the World in 80 Days?” Each gave new meaning to the title, “Honey, I Shrunk the Audience.” Even more pathetic for the studio that used to set the benchmark on originality is that the new version “The Shaggy Dog” isn’t even based on the original 1959 comedy starring Fred MacMurray; its material comes from that movie’s 1976 sequel, “The Shaggy D.A.” Tim Allen takes on the Dean Jones character. For ages 9-14 RV Opens March 24 Not rated at press time Robin Williams stars in a broad farce about a man whose family is falling apart due to the pressures and distractions of modern life. Believing that the family that travels together stays together, he rents a giant recreational vehicle and off they go on a calamity-filled vacation en route to the Colorado Rockies. Chicken Little (Rated G, available March 21; for ages 5-10): The commercial and critical darling makes for a frenetic and funny DVD that tweaks the famous fable of a feathered friend who gets a-flutter when something drops on his head. Grade: B+ Dreamer: Inspired by a true story (Rated PG, available March 21; for ages 6-14): Although the movie stalled at the starting gate last fall, taking in a mare, I mean mere $34 million at the domestic box office, the family film warms the heart. Dakota Fanning again delivers as the daughter of a once-great horseman who gives up nearly everything to save the life of a severely injured racehorse. Kurt Russell, Kris Kristofferson and Elisabeth Shue also star. Grade: B+ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rated PG-13, available March 7; for ages 12-18): It’s all about Harry, Hogwarts and hormones in the fourth movie of the magical series. As the now-14-year-old wizard deals with his first crush, courtesy of the beautiful and popular Cho Chang, his school is getting ready for the big Tri-Wizard Tournament. Nasty dragons and the return of Voldemort mean added trouble for Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), but he doesn’t go it alone thanks to his best pals Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermoine (Emma Watson). Grade: A David Dickstein is the father of two boys, 10 and 12, and the husband of a schoolteacher. |
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