Just in time for Spring Break, Amazon’s put some recent-release family films on sale to own for $10 each in HD—even less, in the case of Pixels (currently $7.99 in HD).
No specific end date is shown for this limited-time sale, so be sure to get the ones you want right away. Descriptions below are from IMDB.
Goosebumps (PG, 4.5/5 stars)
Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach’s comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series.
It turns out that there is a reason why Stine is so strange… he is a prisoner of his own imagination – the monsters that his books made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books.
When Zach unintentionally unleashes the monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach, Hannah, and Zach’s friend Champ (Ryan Lee) to get all of them back in the books where they belong.
Hotel Transylvania 2 (PG, 4.5/5 stars)
The Drac pack is back for an all-new monster comedy adventure in Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 2! Everything seems to be changing for the better at Hotel Transylvania… Dracula’s rigid monster-only hotel policy has finally relaxed, opening up its doors to human guests.
But behind closed coffins, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn’t showing signs of being a vampire. So while Mavis is busy visiting her human in-laws with Johnny – and in for a major cultural shock of her own – “Vampa” Drac enlists his friends Frank, Murray, Wayne and Griffin to put Dennis through a “monster-in-training” boot camp.
But little do they know that Drac’s grumpy and very old, old, old school dad Vlad is about to pay a family visit to the hotel. And when Vlad finds out that his great-grandson is not a pure blood – and humans are now welcome at Hotel Transylvania – things are going to get batty!
Shaun the Sheep Movie (PG, 4.5/5 stars)
Shaun the sheep is tired of doing the same work at the farm everyday.
He decides to take a day off and have some fun, but he gets a little more action than he bargained for.
A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City. When more happens than they can handle, the sheep find their way in the big city.
Now they need to get back to the farm: it’s up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
Pixels (PG-13, 4/5 stars)
Sam Brenner, Will Cooper, Ludlow Lamonsoff, and Eddie “The Fire Blaster” Plant all played classic arcade video games as teenagers. But now they have to use their skills to try to save the world from aliens.
The aliens watched video feeds that they thought was a declaration of war. So they send down the classic arcade games to destroy earth.
They also get help from a military specialist. They have three lives and if all three get used then earth will be destroyed, and every time they lose a live the aliens take someone’s life.
Who will win, us or the aliens? It’s an all-out battle to save our planet and everyone on it.
– Written by Alex Tanner
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