This is a great movie for the grade-school set, especially those who have previously enjoyed the Veggie Tales series.

As an adult seeing it, there were the funny lies that show up in most cartoon productions, and a convoluted and entertaining presentation.

If you have a gradeschooler, you have to see it. Otherwise, depends on your taste.

OK, I can't review the whole movie. About 45 minutes in, I'd had it, and my wife and I walked out. It was rated PG-13, and was quite violent, with a disturbingly dehumanizing focus.

Worth a detour around it to something more fun.

The advertising on this movie is quite deceptive, as are just about all the movie reviews. They discuss the plot, which is touchingly irrelevant to the subject of the movie. Nonetheless, here's the trailer.

This movie is about music, and sound, and how to listen for, and to, them both. It is lovely, complex, challenging, and well-crafted. This is the kind of movie to take your kids to, knowing that they will be distracted by the plot, but just to expose them to the process of listening to music.

The trailer tried to set up a romantic comedy. Surely someone could have written one.

If the words "river" "burn" and "flop" spring naturally to your lips every time you think of cards, you might be among those who would not be bored by this picture. If you don't understand how people actually behave, the characters will interest you, and the actors give good surface.

But if not, don't see this movie. You'd be happier at the predictable, but well done, "Firehouse Dog."

For those who need to know immediately: yes, children like two or three scenes in this movie, and laugh at them. It features the same kind of sexual confusion for young boys that they encounter with any "live action" Peter Pan presentation: we all know it's a girl. She's pretending to be a boy. In the same way here, sex is detached from biology and becomes merely attitudinal. Much of the humor is pitched for teenagers, most of whom wouldn't be caught dead at a "children's" movie, so it may not do all that well.

For adults, this is a boring movie.

This is its official site. Three laughs isn't enough to pay for a movie ticket, guys. I'm out.