This movie wasted an hour and 32 minutes of my life

Here is the problem in a nutshell, the reason so many people diss this movie and similar movies. It is because more and more parents, as each year passes, simply do not involve themselves with their children in the manner parents used to be involved. Teaching them how to use tablets and iPhones is not the same thing as playing board games and choosing family movies to watch -- together. There was a time when family movies were recognized as such, and not ridiculed for being such. When we see most reviewers hating movies for being too childish for adults, we know that the time of family viewing is over. Now, Family Guy is what children watch with their parents, if their parents are even in the same room. Yay.

Lots of laughs and physical humour, my 10-year-old loved it.My 5-year-old daughter was greatly disturbed by animals in peril. There is a great deal of menace in this movie which I believe NETFLIX rated as "G".Unusually racially diverse cast used for all manner of roles. Not afraid to cast foreign powers as bad guys against the wholesome U.S.A.But why does a raccoon have to urinate in Brendan Fraser's mouth? Does he have to lose his clothes on several occasions? Why do kids movies have to be so violent? It seems harder and harder for producers to make a wonderful movie that the whole family can enjoy.

We decided to watch this movie last evening on Cine+ Famiz. Normally we do not watch kid's movies that late but it's still the last days of the Christmas holidays for the kids so… Also, normally I don't write a post about kid's movies, mostly since I never get to see them since the kids usually watch them while I'm not at home.However, did one I did watch (obviously) and I also noticed that it had been given fairly poor ratings, which I thought was a bit unfair, so I decided to write something about it.As the title says my kids loved it and I thought it was rather funny as well. Sure, the jokes are silly, have been done before and are sometimes rather disgusting. I wasn't to found of the birds at the end of the movie that "Stuka-crapped" on everything. Sure the big bad boss was portrayed in such a silly way that it made me jump around in my chair. Sure, some of the "special effects" where obvious. Sure there was a over obvious green message which, due to the silliness of the delivery probably didn't go over so well…with adults.But that's exactly where I think these poor ratings come from. This movie is, mostly, rated by adults but it is not a movie for adults. It's a movie for kids. Kids haven't seen all the movies that preceded this one, kids do not know that some of the jokes are old and, most of all, kids do not care. Kids still laugh when someone falls on their arse and even more so when it's a cute but sneaky (and furry) animal that is the cause.Most of the animal scenes where actually not too bad, even from an adult perspective. Brendan Fraser portrayed the guy slowly going nuts quite well. Myself, I think I would have given it 5 or maybe 6 stars, the kids loved it and would have probably given it 7 or 8. I decided to go for a balanced score of 6.