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Leo

54Watch it awake.

A creature who finally pays attention. The songs are extra. The listening is the point.

The review

Leo is a lizard who thought the news of his death was the story, and finds out the story was the children he had been ignoring. That turn is worth the movie. The songs are broader than they need to be, and a few of the parents are sketches. Stay for the turn, not for the chorus. A child old enough for a feature can watch it with you and talk about who in the class nobody asks a question of.

Journal

Keep Leo in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

How to Train Your Dragon

66 instead of 54

How to Train Your Dragon is still a family film, and it scores 66 instead of 54. What you gain is industry: The village lives by a craft of ship and fight.

The eight

5
Industry
He has had one job for decades and slept through it.
6
Household
The children have houses, and several of the houses are strained. He does not replace the parents.
4
Piety
No creed. He does learn that a life is owed outward.
6
Courage
He leaves the only room he knows because staying would be the smaller act.
5
Republic
A classroom is a small public, and he treats it as one.
5
Temperance
The film is loud in the musical numbers and quiet in the right scenes.
6
Truth
The children are believed. Their trouble is not a gag that resets.
6
Stewardship
What he hands on is attention, which the room was missing.

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Movie · Disney+ · 2003

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Cheaper by the Dozen

54Watch it awake.

The children are the point, and the job is not. Slapstick, and the priority is right.

The review

Tom Baker coaches and lectures and is proud of a large family, and then he takes a schedule that makes him a visitor in it. The comedy is chaos, sometimes cheap, sometimes at a child's expense for the laugh. The spine is not cheap: a house with twelve children requires a parent who is in it, and a career that will not fit must lose. Kate is not a prop. She is the other adult keeping the thing alive.

A family can watch it and should say when a joke is only embarrassment. Keep the ending's choice. A large table is not a brand. It is a labor, and someone has to prefer it to the spotlight.