The holidays are here and the kids will soon be out of school, so why not take them to an animated movie about the violent sport of bullfighting! You wouldn’t, you say? The folks at Blue Sky Studios, ...
The pitch for Ferdinand is simple. Like so many other classic kids movies and stories from throughout time, it all stems from the idea of a character born into a certain kind of world or family, but ...
Movie review: In “Ferdinand” a conscientious-objector bull of a children’s book gets a wider pasture
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Three and one-half stars. Rated PG. 106 minutes. Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few short minutes, no matter how delightful, requires ...
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The beloved children’s book “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, was published in 1936, but the pacifist story about a bull who would rather smell flowers than ...
The beloved children’s book “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, was published in 1936. But the simple, pacifist story about a bull who would rather smell ...
You won’t be surprised to learn that “Ferdinand,” the new animated feature based on the beloved 1936 children’s book, manages to find a way to put the titular bull into a literal china shop. What ...
Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few minutes, no matter how delightful, requires fattening up to become a film. Sometimes Hollywood’s crassness kills the charm. Happily, that is ...
It was a beautiful, warm morning Sunday, a perfect day to stop and smell the flowers at the Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox lot during the premiere of Fox and Blue Sky’s “Ferdinand,” the tale ...
It’s a natural progression that a beloved storybook bull who’d rather smell flowers than fight would find a home on the big screen in an animated feature. But in the case of “Ferdinand” — based on ...
The beloved children’s book “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, was published in 1936. But the simple, pacifist story about a bull who would rather smell ...
Blue Sky finds the heart of Munro Leaf's beloved picture book, about a Spanish bull who refuses to fight, in this delightful CG toon. Of course, there’s a world of difference between a seven-minute ...
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