The Amazing Adventures of the Living Corpse

Highly Recommended
Highly recommended to any person interested in a kick ass animated film. The violence is not that intense as an R rating is led to believe. Great story and visuals. Cool score and wicked end credit song. Based on an awesome graphic novel The Living Corpse by Ken Haeser and Buz Hasson. I have three kids that were able to enjoy the movie (4-7) and they were not bothered by it one bit. It's animated and resembles a video game in some instances. This is why I'm puzzled by an R rating. Still highly recommended if you want an enjoyable movie. It comes with a digital copy of the newest Living Corpse book as well. What a value!

Animated Horror!
Being a huge fan of horror films, I never thought an animated horror film would bring such suspense and thrill. I definitely recommend this one for any horror movie fans out there!

DAD, PLEASE DON'T LET THEM EAT ME
Taylor's family is killed by zombies. His dad is a zombie who develops a conscience and rescues his son from those other zombies. Dad goes to the underworld while Taylor is sent off to a special school where he is bullied. The film consists mostly of zombie dad rescuing his son and fighting all kinds of monsters.

The film is entirely in comic book style animation and looks like it would make for a decent video game, except where does one go when one dies in hell? Detroit?

I got very bored after 30 minutes. While rated "R" for violence, the film's real appeal is with those too young to see it.

Parental Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity.

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Detention of the Dead

DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD BLOOD IS TO GET OUT?
Has anyone else noticed that the amount of zombie films produced in a year has grown on the same graph as the legalization of marihuana? I suspect people are sitting around smoking, brainstorming ideas like, 'Dude, what if we added zombies to "The Breakfast Club?"' Okay, we noticed.

This is a fun zombie cult film that starts off with our stereotyped kids in detention and moves on from there. Willow (Alexa Nikolas) is the goth chick and the voice of reason who comes up with profound zombie metaphors. Eddie (Jacob Zachar) is the picked on geek, who doesn't have asthma and is not a level 18 wizard. Janet (Christa B. Allen) is our popular head cheerleader with Brad (Jayson Blair) as her jock/ROTC boyfriend who claims he is going to "officer's boot camp" after high school. Jimmy (Max Adler) is another jock who follows Brad. Ash (Justin Chon) is a likeable skateboard stoner who sells jocks Midal and tells them it is hash that won't show up on a drug test.

The film...

High School can be Murder
This is a pretty solid entry into the Horror/Comedy Genre. You have all your usual characters and stereotypes.I'm not mad because I like formulaic Horror movies as long as it's a formula I like and this formula I do.I believe most everyone else who loves this sub genre will love it too.
The comedy is a little over the top as is the acting but it's still a lot of fun and the gore was abundant and fun to watch as well.It's not destined to be a classic or anything but it is a good film that will entertain you and not leave you feeling like you wasted money like so many of late.
Jayson Blair of 'The New Normal' and Krista B.Allen of 'Revenge' were my favorite characters because their acting was so well suited for this film..I say rent it or buy it..You can't go wrong either way because it has the re-watch-ability factor.

Breakfast Club meets the Undead
I'm not much for Zombie comedies but occasionally they can be fun. Shawn of the Dead and Zombieland come to mind as a couple of Zombie comedies that were not only funny but had enough good action, story line, and well scripted that made them worthwhile to watch more than once. Detention of the Dead is not a repeater, I doubt seriously if I'll ever feel the need to watch it again. It had some funny moments and some action but not a lot of story or script to it. Played a little too much on the Breakfast Club. The acting was decent and the Zombie effects actually weren't half bad.

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Lego Batman: The Movie Dc Superheroes Unite

An (almost) Feature Length Lego Movie (With Batman!)
My family has enjoyed the previous Lego movie releases for Star Wars, but considering the superhero obsession in our household I had to pick this film up. The movie itself runs 71 minutes, almost a feature length which is quite a bit more than we've gotten with the previous Star Wars specials. The movie begins with Batman and Superman taking on Lex Luthor and flashes back to the "Man of the Year" award ceremony which quickly gets out of control when the Joker leads a group of villains (including the Penquin, Harley Quinn, Riddler, Two-Face and Catwoman) to crash the party. And what better way to stop a villain team up then by getting together a few "super" friends like Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Cyborg and The Flash. There are plenty of other characters that show up along the way as well.

While this film utilizes the spirit of the cut-scenes from LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, it is not...

Never Played the Video Game
My 6 and 7-yr-old were thoroughly entertained, and it was mildly enjoyable for dad to watch too. Whether this was pieced together with video game cut scenes or not, I didn't notice. The computer animation is high quality and voice acting excellent.

Great fun for the kids
If you have played the Lego Batman 2 game, the plot of this movie will be very familiar to you. In fact, its almost as if Traveler's Tales figured they could throw a game together on the cheap by re-using the cut scenes from the video game. Although its not a complete clone of the game, some scenes are re-edited and re-cut so they aren't exact, but they are close enough.

If you are over the age of 12, then there isn't a ton of stuff in this movie to interest you. There are some references to past Batman movie and TV incarnations and the recreation of the 1989 Tim Burton Batman movie opening from LEGO bricks is a classic. My kids watch the scene and yell out "The bat-symbol!" every time they watch it. There is also a scene where Superman hears the Richard Donner Superman film's theme and says "That music sounds familiar." To which Batman replies "I don't listen to music." I just about fell over when I found out that my kids don't instantly equate that tune with...

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