Par for Pixar's fantastic course.

Rating: 9/10 (30 November 2004)

Pixar does it again. I guess I'd suffered through so many "family" pictures in the last year or so that I had grown jaded on ever taking my kids to see anything worthwhile. For every bright light like Shrek and Toy Story there are a hundred Garfields and Wild Thornberry movies.
In the simplest terms, this was a fun movie to watch. The characters were realistic in the universe presented, the plot turns were often unexpected and exciting and there were several lines of the story that wove in and out. The 3 kids I had with me were enthralled, although I only glanced over once. I had a movie to watch too.
Aside from the neato moments of computer generated wizardry, I was rarely paying attention to the media used or the FX generated. I cared about the relationship between the parents. I recognized the rivalry between the kids and the bits of angst thrown in both from their daily lives and from trying to be "normal".
Thank you, Pixar.