I don’t have kids at home, but I enjoy the PIXAR movies.
Transformers was a lot of fun, I thought, and I really enjoyed the special effects.
(Of course, my grandkids thought I was nuts because I was either cheering or booing and hissing....)
Another surprise (to me) was Collateral, with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. And I don’t like Tom Cruise.
The two “Ice Age” movies were also danged funny.
With holiday guests in the house, we’ve also seen “Surf’s Up”; actually a solid film about relationships, and trust; “Rush Hour 3”, which was midless dreck, and took Jackie Chan down a couple of notches in my Hall of Esteem; and some PG holiday film with Danny DeVito, which was so simultaneously funny, bawdy, and deep that it felt schizophrenic. “Deeply humorous” works. “Deeply bawdily humorous” comes off as fake as a $3 bill; the humor just can’t reconcile the inherent values between “deep” and the “bawdy”. There’s no way to successfully juxtapose deep human sincerity with rude body noises, and then just spackle it all up with slapstick, and have it work.