{"id":685,"date":"2009-05-04T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=685"},"modified":"2009-05-04T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T01:06:00","slug":"movie-review-battle-for-terra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/movie-review-battle-for-terra\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: Battle for Terra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I took my 7-year old to see Battle for Terra<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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The reviews made it out to be a thinly veiled environmental preachment. But I didn’t find that to be the case at all. It was more about making a really tough choice about what is right.<\/div>\n
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The strength of the movie, and what held my interest, was the amazing depictions of alien life (creatures) and culture and buildings. Terra really is an alien world with a unique technology.<\/div>\n
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There were a few points where my “suspension of disbelief” was stretched (example: when the human protagonist wakes up in Mala’s dwelling he stumbles to a window to call for help, but on breathing the toxic alien atmospher just HAPPENS to tumble out the window in a dramatic fall where giant alien thorns HAPPEN to be below). But other than a few items like that the whole thing weaves together in a consistent and pleasant fashion.<\/div>\n
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The other thing I liked is that Stanton has to make a deliciously excruciating decision near the end of the movie. It’s the type of thing that you don’t normally see in a movie geared to kids where there is usually a pre-fab-hate-able villain.<\/div>\n
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My son was on the edge of his seat the whole time, sharing in my wonderment at the bizarre aliens and landscapes.<\/div>\n
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I will buy this movie when it comes out. I would watch it again.<\/div>\n
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I can’t remember any scary parts or any sort of swearing. I would certainly recommend it for kids seven and up. And certainly if your kid likes sci-fi type stuff.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took my 7-year old to see Battle for Terra. . The reviews made it out to be a thinly veiled environmental preachment. But I didn’t find that to be the case at all. It was more about making a really tough choice about what is right. . The strength of the movie, and what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}