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Catholic News Service
The first thing to understand about “The Odd Life of Timothy Green” is that, despite its genuinely wholesome approach, its themes of infertility and death make it unsuitable for younger children.
The film strains not to offend. But even older children may find parts of this fable, in which the enchanted 10-year-old boy of the title (CJ Adams) passes through life leading others by cheerfulness and good example, somewhat puzzling. Read more »
Catholic News Service
We have it on the authority of Victorian librettist W.S. Gilbert that “it is, it is a glorious thing/to be a pirate king.” If the rollicking 3-D animated comedy “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” is to be believed, being the captain of even a motley shipload of 19th-century buccaneers isn’t such a bad lot either.
That’s the role fate has assigned to the luxuriantly bearded central character in this historical fantasy, voiced by Hugh Grant.
