Family Movie Night: ADVENTURE PLANET
We hold family movie nights here at our home once a week. We typically invite over our little 5 year old grand daughter and 7 year old god son to watch the selected movie with us. Popcorn and beverages are always served!
Today, I am going to tell you about a brand new DVD release (available August 26th, 2014) that would be perfect for your kids or your very own family movie night.
Title: Adventure Planet
Cast: Jane Lynch (Fox’s “Glee,” Wreck-It Ralph), Brooke Shields (Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana”), Bailee Madison (Disney Channel’s “Wizards of Waverly Place”), Drake Bell (Nickelodeon’s “Drake & Josh,” Super Hero Movie), J.K. Simmons (Spider Man)
Synopsis: Get ready for this amazing adventure that shows how kids can save the world! NORVA and JORPE are a gifted and loving sister and brother living in Thailand who have unique abilities to communicate with nature. They literally run into SAM, the son of the president of the Capital State, when he gets lost on a scouting expedition. Sam is impetuous and fool-hardy, but he soon learns to respect his two companions as his electronic gadgets go haywire and strange, burning objects plunge from the sky. The kids rush to the Capital State to warn the president and stop the damage, but they’re no match for the energy-hungry devices that threaten to engulf the planet. The only way to prevent the complete destruction of the world is to turn off all the power and let the earth regenerate, but how can they get the message across to everyone in time?
Director: Kompin Kemgumnird
Distributor: ARC Entertainment
Running Time: 81 minutes
Rated: PG
Genre: Family, Animation
Our Thoughts: We received a copy of this DVD for our review and were pretty excited to get it into our hands. The family loves to watch animated movies together so we knew this one was perfect for our Family Movie Night.
Per our typical routine, we had 4 kids here for this particular viewing party ranging in age from 5 years to age 13. One was a girl and the other three were boys. I think that is important to know so you can decide if your own child would enjoy this movie.
Norva & Jorpe are two very talented & special siblings living in Thailand. They are nature lovers and have special “assets” which allow them to communicate with nature. The two siblings are extremely close & do everything together. They “bump” into the president’s son named Sam who tends to venture off on his own quite a bit. Soon after meeting the brother and sister he finds out that his electronic gadgets go completely haywire and strange things start happening, the biggest being that burning objects start falling from the sky and cause all kinds of damage to the city.
The energy-hungry devices are taking over and can only be stopped if everyone turns off their electrical devices and quits using them. By doing so, the earth will regenerate and harmony will return. The siblings team up with Sam to try to get everyone to turn off those devices & have a hard time convincing them to do so. How does it end? Well, it ends very well and life goes on…but I am not going to give you the specifics because that would ruin the story. Go out and buy the DVD to see how it all turns out!
Overall, this is a very cute movie! Since I am very anti-electronic device for kids…I loved seeing a plot line that involved that. The animation is wonderfully done and the characters are adorable. We give it 7 1/2 stars out of 10 on our DVD entertainment scale.
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