Small Soldiers (1998)
Nov 5, 1999War Between Toys
Joe Dante has resorted to a rehash of his biggest hit Gremlins, seemingly conceptually slung together with Toy Story - concerning an army of malevolent toy soldiers come to life
Denis Leary
A Bug’s Life (1998)
Jun 19, 1999Pixar Animation/Talking Insects
The second film from Pixar. One of their slighter and usually overlooked works, this is nevertheless an enjoyably eccentric reworking of The Seven Samurai set amidst a circus troupe of talking insects
Final (2001)
Jan 22, 2002Psychiatric Patient/Reality Bender
Indie SF film where Denis Leary wakes up as patient in a psychiatric institution while he insists he has been awoken from cryogenic suspension in a future where he is awaiting execution
Ice Age (2002)
Mar 22, 2002Animation/Prehistoric Talking Animals
This begat an interminable number of tedious sequels. However, the original is a still likeable and appealing animated film about a group of prehistoric talking animals migrating with the onset of an Ice Age
Ice Age 2 (2006)
Jun 21, 2006Animation/Prehistoric Talking Animals
The first in a series of interminable sequels to Blue Sky Studios' animated prehistoric adventure. Everything has a tediousness that feels as though it is created by a script generating computer
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Jul 17, 2009Animation/Prehistoric Talking Animals
Another of Blue Sky Studios' interminable animated sequels to its likeable original about prehistoric talking animals. This has little substance beyond a kinetic rush from one gag to the next
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
Jul 20, 2012Animation/Prehistoric Talking Animals
This is not a film, it is a money-making machine in the guise of a film aimed squarely at undiscerning family audiences that plays to familiar characters and comic routines and has minimal difference to the preceding three Ice Age films
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Jul 2, 2012Comic-Book Superhero
The reasoning behind rebooting the Spider-Man franchise after ten years and only three films is a puzzle. That said, this offers an edgier origin story than Sam Raimi's take and Andrew Garfield makes for a fine Spider-Man
Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
Sep 9, 2016Animation/Prehistoric Talking Animals
I hate the Ice Age films and their tediously extruded adventures. The opening sequence here and its ignorance of even basic science is the most inane thing in the entire series