Bolt!

Even though we love to go, I often find it difficult to find movies I can take my kids to see at the theater. Many of the ones that are popular with kids and families have foul language and blatant sexual references (like Transformers) or gruesome twisted violence (Like the Dark Knight). Ok, I know both of my examples are PG-13 movies, but they both are very popular with the families with young kids crowd.

So, it is nice when they release a movie that is appropriate for us all to watch, as well as entertaining enough that adults enjoy sitting through it too. There are plenty of "kids" movies that are fine as far as not showing naked dancing girls screaming profanities and they gruesomely kill one another, but that are downright boring. One that immediately comes to mind is the terribly dull Milo and Otis.

Bolt has a kind of Toy Storyish, Incrediblesy feel and is about a dog that is the star of an action oriented tv series. The twist is that the dog thinks he is actually a super powered dog, only to discover that his powers don't work quite right when he happens to leave the set one day hoping to save his person.

Yes, it does have the kind of corny, tearsy, my familyand friends are more important than fame and fortune sort of stuff, but it is, all in all, an enjoyable show sprinkled with humor and even action throughout. Rhino, a hamster in a ball, steals the scene again and again, as he follows his tv hero, Bolt, into daring and funny adventures.

The show also includes a short featurette featuring the "Cars" characters. I am not a fan of Cars at all, but the kids thought it was a great addition.

Bolt actually did better the second week of it's release than it did the first week. This shows that the people that saw this movie the first week of it's release actually enjoyed it, recommended it to their friends and family and made it a hit. It is at the cheap theaters now and is soon to be released on DVD.