Movie Reviews ***^We Bought a Zoo

We Bought a Zoo is a movie about a Quixotic attempt by a father to restore his family as they are dealing with the grief of losing his wife, and mother of his two children. To do this he buys a property, which happens to include a zoo.  The zoo is previously condemned, and so it includes the efforts to overcome inspection, so they can reopen.
An enjoyable subplot is the relationship between the father (Matt Damon) and his son. The find a way to heal wounds in the son's art.  The father uses one of his drawings of a lion to advertise the reopening of the zoo.  Scarlett Johansson plays the game keeper.  This movie was pretty fun--but the Tony scale wasn't that great.  He had to go out at least three times during the movie, for a drink, for candy and for the potty.  However I enjoyed the story, and the struggle to meet the dream of the new owner as well as the zoo staff.

Motivational Movies: Summary

Some of my favorite movies are those that work at making me a better person.  I find the human struggle, and conquering, and finding success very entertaining.  Some of these movies are fiction, and some is based on true stories.  They are all movies which serve to motivate me.
***** When the Game Stands Tall 2014. Football

***** Rudy (1993) with Sean Astin and Notre Dame Football

***** Hoosiers. (1986) Gene Hackman and Indiana HIgh School basketball
***** Michael Ballam: The Power of Music to Lift and Teach: BYU Education Week (1998)
***** Michael Ballam: The Healing Power of Music: BYU Education Week (1999)
***** Michael Ballam: Recognizing Inspiration in the Arts: BYU Education Week (2009)
***** Brave (Disney Pixar 2012)
***** Unstoppable. (2010.) Train movie
****^ The Blind Side. (2009) Sandra Bullock, Michael Oher story, football
****^ Hitchcock  (2011) About the making of Psycho
****^ The Drop Card (BYU). (1980)
****^ Johnny Lingo  (LDS 1969)
***^ The Emmet Smith Story (BYU 1979)
**** ESPN 30 for 30 Survive and Advance, ESPN 30 for 30; story of 1983 NCAA basketball champions North Carolina State
****^ The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (Pete Maravich) (1991)
***^ Pistol Pete Maravich: The LSU Years (perseverance practice) Pete Maravich documentary
****^ Cool Runnings (1993) Jamaican Bob Sled Team, a dream vs opposition
****^ Wild Hearts Can't be Broken, (1991) Horse Diving Girl
****^ Tyler: A Real Hero. Documentary about a young man from Saint George
**** The Phone Call (LDS 1977)
**** Faith in Every Footstep. (1980)
***^ We Bought a Zoo (2011). Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson
***^ Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999)(talks about having a dream)
***^ Invictus (2009) (Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman, So Africa rugby)
***^ John Baker's Last Race (BYU)
*** Run Dick, Run Jane  (BYU 1972)
*** Blind Love (BYU 1979)

Movie Reviews Summary

This will give you an idea of what I like.  There are still more to include.  Top billing is 5 stars.

*****^ Pride and Prejudice (BBC Ehle and Firth)
***** Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
***** Narnia: Prince Caspian
***** Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
***** Rudy
***** Hoosiers
***** Spider-Man 1
***** Spider-Man 2
****^ Spider-Man 3
****^ Doctor Who Season 1
****^ Doctor Who Season 2
****  Doctor Who Season 3
****^ Doctor Who Season 4
***** Doctor Who Season 5
***** Doctor Who Season 6
**** Doctor Who Spearhead from Space
**** Doctor Who The Carnival of Monsters
***^ Doctor Who The Three Doctors
***^ Doctor Who The Pyramids of Mars
*** Doctor Who The Aztecs
*** Doctor Who The Ark in Space
***** Enchanted
***** Unstoppable
**** Twilight
***** New Moon
****^ Breaking Dawn 1
***** Breaking Dawn II
***** The Battle for Midway
***** The Phantom of the Opera: Royal Albert Music Hall 2011
****^ Love Never Dies (Phantom part II)
****^ True Grit (1969, John Wayne)
**^ True Grit (2010)
****^ The Sixth Sense (Bruce Willis)
****^ Ender's Game
****^  Catching Fire (Hunger Games 2)
****^ Who Shot Liberty Balance (Stewart and Wayne)
****^ Les Miserables (2012)
****^ Young Mr. Lincoln (Henry Fonda, 1939)
****^ The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (Pete Maravich)
****^ The Avengers
***^ Iron Man
**** Iron Man II
****^ Hitchcock
****^ The Spiderwick Chronicles
****^ The Amazing Spider Man
****^ Sense and Sensibility (1995)
***^ Sense and Sensibility (2008)
****^ Tangled
****^ Holes

****^ Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
**** Sherlock Holmes (2009)
***** Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
****^ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
****^ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part I
****^ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part II
**** Wreck-it Ralph
**** Hondo(John Wayne)
**** Oklahoma (1955)
**** Walk The Line (Johnny Cash)
**** Of Mice And Men
**** Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
**** Man of La Mancha
**** Roman Holiday (Hepburn, Peck)
**** Snow White and the Huntsman
**** The Journey of Natty Gann
**** Shrek: The Musical
**** Twelve O'Clock High
**** Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
**** The Cinderella Man
**** The Thanksgiving Promise
**** War and Peace
**** Star Child (LDS)
****John Carter
**** Saturday's Warrior
**** Robin Hood (2010)
****Bang the Drum Slowly
**** While You Were Sleeping
**** Hugo
**** Grease (John Travolta and Olivia Newton John)
**** Cahill: U.S. Marshall (John Wayne)
**** Toy Story III
**** Faith in Every Footstep  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1zDMnx56SM
**** Cowboys and Aliens
**** Red Riding Hood
**** A Dinner of Herbs
**** Sherlock Holmes (2009) Robert Downey Jr. Damon
**** Into the Woods Musical
**** Grapes of Wrath (1940, John Steinbeck)
**** La Perla (1947 John Steinbeck, Spanish)
**** The Disappeared  (documentary)Argentina
***^ Silverado (Kevin Costner, Danny Glover)
***^ The Crossing, Jeff Daniels as George Washington
***^ The Man in the Iron Mask
***^ Paranoia
***^ Return to Oz
***^ The Quick and the Dead
***^ Les Miserables (2000)
***^ Mirror Mirror (Julia Roberts)
***^The Three Lives of Thomasina (Disney)
***^ We Bought a Zoo   (Matt Damon)
***^ Battle for Terra
***^ Bandolero
***^ Abduction
***^ The Recruit
***^ The House of D  Robin Williams, Zelda Williams
***^ Just Like Heaven  Reese Witherspoon, Jon Heder
***^ Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules 
***^ The 300 Spartans  old classic
***^ The Willows in Winter
***^ Invictus  Matt Damon
***^ Sons of Katie Elder  (John Wayne)
***^ Water for Elephants
***^ Sunset Boulevard (1950)
***^ Madagascar III
***^ Gimme Shelter (documentary) (musical)
***^ Under the Greenwood Tree
*** Joseph King of Dreams
*** McLintock (1963, John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara)
*** Three Musketeers (2011)
***  Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Ben Stiller)
*** One for the Money
*** Last of the Mohicans (1992)
*** Thor
*** The Face on the Milk Carton
*** 12 O'Clock High  Gregory Peck, 
*** Kung Fu Panda II 
*** Captain America
*** The Brothers Grimm
***That Shaggy Dog
*** Tin Tin
*** Avengers (1998, Uma Thurman)
*** Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
*** Sunday in the Park With George (Sondheim Musical)
*** East of Eden
*** Unknown
*** Alice in Wonderland (2010, Johnny Depp)
*** North and South
*** Matchstick Men
*** Les Miserables (1952)
*** Sweeney Todd In Concert (not the movie)
*** Puss in Boots
*** Sally Lockhart Ruby in the Smoke
*** Sally Lockhart The Shadow in the North
**^ Salt (Angelina Jolie)
**^ The Trophy Case (BYU 1979)
**^ Alice in Wonderland (Sean Penn)
**^ Did You Hear What Happened to the Morgans (Hugh Grant)
**^ Failure to Launch
**^ The Wind in the Willow (1995)
**^ The Marvelous Land of Oz (1981)
**^ The Shaggy Dog
**^ The Duchess
**^ Salt
**^ Diary of a Wimpy Kid
**^ Yogi Bear
**^ Polly
**^ A Room With a View
**^ The Sorcerer's Apprentice
**^ The Mill on the Floss
**^ Chicago (musical)
**^ The Ewok Adventure: The Battle for Endor
** The Ewok Adventure
** Rango
** A Little Night Music
** Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
** Return With Honor
*^ Solitary
*^ Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
*^ The Land of the Lost
*^ The Marine
* The 11th of September: Moyers in Conversation (documentary)
* September 11 (documentary)
* When the Bough Breaks (documentary)
^ Saturday Night Fever (R)

Tony Movie Review Summaries: Kid Movies

Tony and I Movies

***** Enchanted (2007) with Amy Adams
***** Frozen (2013). Indina Menzel and Kristen Bell
***** Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone 
***** Spider Man I
***** Spider Man II
****^ Spider Man III
****^ The Avengers

****^ Brave (2013) In which the three boys are turned into bears
****^ Holes
****^ Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks in the Circus
****^ Tangled
****^ The Amazing Spider Man
**** Toby Tyler
**** Shrek: The Musical
**** Next Avengers  (animated)
**** Hugo
**** Savannah Smiles
**** The Thanksgiving Promise (Chester)
**** Toy Story III
**** Chipwrecked (according to Tony)
**** Wreck-it Ralph
**** It's an Adventure Charlie Brown
***^ We Bought a Zoo
***^ Madeline
***^ The Three Lives of Thomasina (Disney)
***^ City of Ember
***^ Pocahantas II
***^ Battle for Terra
***^ The Willows in Winter (1996) Vanessa Redgrave
***^ Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules
***^ Madagascar II: Europe's Most Wanted
*** Three Musketeers (2011)
*** Captain America
*** Alice in Wonderland
*** Tin Tin 
*** Kung Fu Panda II
*** Puss in Boots
*** Thor
***Next Avengers
**^ The Wind in the Willow (1995) Vanessa Redgrave
**^ Diary of a Wimpy Kid
**^ Yogi Bear
**^ Polly
**^ The Sorcerer's Apprentice
**^ Howls Moving Castle
**^ The Ewok Adventure: The Battle for Endor
** The Ewok Adventure
** The Smurfs
** Super Buddies
** Rango 
** Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer