The Sitter (1991)

Despite its oh-so-laboured set-up and oh-so-laboured dialogue, this uncinematic 90-minute flick is good movie-night-in fun for psycho thriller fans, featuring a babysitter who reveals, on her first night on the job minding a kid in a swanky hotel, that she is a rank nutter prepared to cosh any number of hotel guests over the head to continue revelling in her delusions!

★★★☆☆

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Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

There's a positive message in this Disney animation about the young and ostracised  breaking free from the expectations of others and determining for themselves their role in life but this message is buried in such tiresome, convoluted, made-up arcade game mythology, only the most undemanding of young viewers will find any enjoyment sitting through the story of Wreck-It Ralph, an arcade game bad guy who seeks a hero's medal and so ventures outside of his own game and into other game worlds.

★☆☆☆☆

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Zootopia (2016)

Real-world issues like racial stereotyping, our conscious and unconscious biases, and politics are cleverly packed into this entertaining Disney cartoon mystery about Judy the rabbit who wants to become a police officer, not a carrot farmer — a movie with such an important message you feel it should be mandatory viewing for all children.

★★★★☆

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Flight of the Navigator (1978)

A boy's eight year disappearance turns out to have been spent flying around space in a silver almond talking to a goofy Paul Reubens-voiced spaghetti strainer, in this kids sci-fi from Disney, the third act of which plays out just a smidge too much like a geography lesson.

★★☆☆☆

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