By Movieguide® Contributor
Valentine’s Day is a fun time to cozy up as a family and watch a movie that celebrates love. Whether it’s a fairytale-like BEAUTY AND THE BEAST or a modern classic like THE PARENT TRAP, there’s something for everyone in this round-up of sweet movies. Sing along with your favorite Disney songs, or sit back and have a laugh. Either way, these flicks will have everyone feeling the love this Valentine’s Day.
Director Nancy Meyers's remake of THE PARENT TRAP is even better than the delightful original. Little Hallie Parker and Annie James meet at camp and discover that they are identical twins, separated at birth when their parents Nick Parker and Elizabeth James…
Read the Full Review →GNOMEO & JULIET is a delightful, inventive, funny animated musical reinvention of Shakespeare’s play ROMEO & JULIET. Set in present-day London, the story involves two neighboring yards. One yard features a red-dressed group of garden gnomes. The other yard features gnomes in…
Read the Full Review →TANGLED is Disney’s comical animated version of the Rapunzel fairy tale. A wicked old hag steals the baby Rapunzel from the King and Queen because a magical flower created by a drop of sunlight gives Rapunzel’s hair a glow that can heal…
Read the Full Review →LADY AND THE TRAMP (2019) is a wonderful live action remake of the original 1955 cartoon classic by the Walt Disney Company. After protecting Tramp from the dog catcher, Lady escapes her home without her collar when her family goes on a…
Read the Full Review →WALL*E is the latest animated feature from Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures. In the future, human beings left earth because there was too much trash. In their haste, they forgot to turn off WALL*E, Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class. So, for 700…
Read the Full Review →To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST has been digitally reformatted and expanded for the giant screen. The movie now includes a six-minute musical sequence that features the song “Human Again,” where an ensemble of enchanted objects express their…
Read the Full Review →CINDERELLA is Disney’s live-action version of the classic fairy tale. A girl named Ella has two loving parents. Her mother instills in Ella that kindness and goodness will bring her happiness. Ella’s mother dies. Eventually, Ella’s father remarries a mean stepmother with…
Read the Full Review →Mike Myers plays the title role in SHREK, a fractured fairy tale about a smelly ogre with a bad disposition. Shunned by the human townspeople around him, Shrek is a cynical, no-nonsense creature, whose swamp has been overrun by annoying fairy tale…
Read the Full Review →THE PEANUTS MOVIE is a wonderful animated movie based on the beloved comic strip created by Charles Schulz. It brings back Snoopy, Woodstock, Charlie Brown, and the whole gang. In the story, Charlie Brown as usual struggles at being the klutzy, unsuccessful…
Read the Full Review →Triton the Sea King assigns Sebastian the crab to keep an eye on his beautiful daughter, Ariel, who longs to be human. When Ariel saves Eric, a handsome prince, in a shipwreck, she falls in love. Eric is entranced by her lovely…
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