After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. He is also one of our primary movie reviewers.
This pic looks much more like a direct-to-DVD tyke trifle than anything approaching feature film fare. But it’s still a little emerald bauble that deserves a second look from moms and dads.
In fact, this pic works so well that I’ve got a feeling Moms’ Night Out will make many a real-world date night or girls’ getaway into a chuckle-worthy time.
RPG sword-slashing and demon possession burn out this fantasy epic from the inside, leaving only a charred shell of a game behind.
More so here than in the first film, our hero is a fellow we can cheer. A guy who’s settled into being … good.
A decades-old, wide-eyed and rose-hued hero bounds and bounces onto the 3DS to gain a few new skills and a whole new dimension.
A young princess is lost in the darkening world on the other side of a magical mirror. The creatures she meets there need her to light their way.
Revenge-starved ghosts, a deranged psychopath and a flock of possessed crows inhabit a North Dakota farm. It puts fly-over country in a whole new light.
Those 90 minutes are crammed with a continual regurgitation of pretty much the same gun-blazing, back-flipping, ghetto fight scene. They’re consumed with crass and banal dialogue.
Larry the Cable Guy may seem like an overweight simpleton, but he’s ready and willing to rescue the girl and save the world—one gaseous expulsion at a time.
There is a web-slinging hero here, of course. And a big concrete jungle just waiting for him to crawl a few walls. But this game isn’t the movie tie-in you might have been expecting.
LEGO my Eggo, er, Hobbit: Fans of the franchise get yet another fantasy universe to explore, stack and build.
