City of Ember Fails to Ignite Excitement
I'm
sick of movies getting labeled "kids" movies. Just because the target
demographic lacks scraggly stubble or supple bosoms doesn't give a
director a free pass to make a sub-par film. Yet the recent trend of
kid friendly flix seems to favor pandering to parents over integrity to
the art. For a weekly movie-goer like myself, the steady diet of
nihilism, explosions and sex can leave you longing for the innocence of
cinema with a lighter quality, and while
"City of Ember" isn't a "Spy Kids" insult to cinematic decency, it feels as if the writers played the "kids film" card a little too often.
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Dustin Anglin