The kids are getting out of school, and Amazon’s put a bunch of great, kid-friendly movies on sale to own for just $6.99 each in the Instant Video Store just in time for those summer vacation family movie nights. Descriptions below are fromm IMDB.
Hotel Transylvania (PG, 4/5 stars, closed captions available)
In 1895, Dracula builds a resort in Transylvania, hidden from the humans, to raise his beloved daughter Mavis in a safe environment. In the present, the place is the Hotel Transylvania, where monsters bring their families to vacation far from the frightening humans. Dracula invites his friends – Frankenstein and his wife Eunice; Wayne and Wanda, the werewolves; Griffin, the invisible man; Murray, the mummy; Bigfoot, among others – to celebrate the 118th birthday of Mavis. When the party is ready to start, the 21-year-old Jonathan is walking through the forest and stumbles upon the hotel. Dracula sees Jonathan and disguises him as a monster to hide Jonathan from the guests. But Mavis also sees Jonathan and Dracula forces him to pose as a monster. Soon Mavis believes that Jonathan is the “zing” of her life despite the advice of her father about humans.
– Written by Claudio Carvalho
Xanadu (PG, 4/5 stars, closed captions available)
The Greek muses incarnate themselves on Earth to inspire men to achieve.
One of them, incarnated as a girl named Kira, encounters an artist named Sonny Malone.
With the help of Danny McGuire, a man Kira had inspired forty years earlier, Sonny builds a [new nightclub that merges the styles of the 1940s, the 1980s and every genre of popular music].
– Written by Randy Goldberg
Men In Black III (PG-13, 4/5 stars, closed captions available)
Criminal Boris the Animal escapes from the LunaMax, a moon-based maximum security prison. He comes to Earth seeking revenge from Agent K, who his arm up and arrested him forty years ago and protected Earth from a Boglodyte invasion.
Boris is defeated again and he travels back in time to 1969 to kill Agent K. When Agent J notes that the time line has changed in the present days and Agent O tells him that K died in 1969, he decides to travel to 15 July 1969 to save K on the following day. Agent J has difficulties to convince the Young Agent K with lies, but when he decides to tell the truth, K believes in his words and they seek out Boris together.
They are helped by the amicable alien Griiffin that has precognitive powers and gives the ArcNet to K to protect Earth from the Boglodyte invasion. Further, J learns a secret about K and himself.
– Written by Claudio Carvalho
Ever After: A Cinderella Story (PG-13, 5/5 stars, closed captions available)
If Cinderella was a true story, it would be very much like Ever After. Danielle D’Barbarac, is the strong, fiery daughter of a dead nobleman. She works as a servant to her stepmother, the Baroness D’Gent. One day Danielle pretends to be a courtier to help a servant escape from being taken to the Americas.
She captures the eye of the most unlikely person, the crowned prince of France! The two fall in love, but they are up against the ruthless Baroness D’Gent, and her spoiled daughter, Marguerite who are determined to see that Margurite becomes Henry’s bride.
However with the servants, Danielle’s kind stepsister, Jacqueline, and Leonardo Da Vinci on Danielle’s side, Danielle and Prince Henry’s love can survive even though he is a prince and she is a servant girl.
– Written by x_baby angel
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (PG, 4.5/5 stars, closed captions available)
Noctus the owl, never gets tired to telling epic stories about the Guardians of Ga’Hoole to his young barn owlets Kludd, Soren and their younger sister Eglantine. Soren and Eglantine love the story but jealous Kludd gets bored with the tales of the protectors of the Kingdom of Ga’Hoole.
One day, Soren and Kludd fall out of their nest while learning to fly alone and they are kidnapped by evil owls to work for Metalbeak and Nyra. The owlets are divided in soldiers or workers in the Pelletorium. Soren befriends the elf owl Gylfie and they learn that the owlets are “moon-blinked” by the moon while sleeping, and while awake brainwashed.
They manage to fight the brainwashing and Gylfie’s captor Grimble teaches them how to fly. They meet the Guardians of Ga’Hoole and together fight against Metalbeak and Nyra and the evil army of The Pure Ones.
– Written by Claudio Carvalho