Reviewer Paige A is 7 years old.

Kids Flix Mix 2 is a collection of shorts, of which Paige has reviewed several:

At the Opera
All the people at the opera are crying their eyes out and tears are everywhere, I mean everywhere; everyone is crying. At the end there is an uncommon surprise!

Paper Touch
Paper Touch is about an animated paper ball that goes through a pinball machine and makes one thing turn into another thing. For example, paper cones bloom into flowers when touched by the paper ball. The pinball machine is really big. This movie made me feel happy because it is fun and colorful.

I’m Going to Mum’s
This live action film is about a boy that goes back and forth between his mom and dad’s houses, and he wears a bunch of clothes. When he gets to the last place, he has 20 layers of clothes on. On one trip he wore a “Bank of Dad” t-shirt to his mom’s. And when he went to his dad’s, he wore a shirt that says “I Heart Mom.” There is a funny part where his dad says he cannot have breakfast until he takes his shower. So, Jacob turns on the shower, but does not go in the shower. He comes into the kitchen and tiptoes to the refrigerator to get breakfast. Then he sneaks back to his mom’s without a shower. Jacob is unhappy because his parents are fighting and they are divorced. He wears a lot of clothes because his dad puts him in clothes that his dad likes and his mom puts him in clothes that she likes.

Lola
Lola is about two dolls that are in a store, and one doll gets purchased, and the other doll tries to find the doll. The one doll goes around the world to find his friend. He goes to Grand Canyon, Paris, San Francisco, London, the Arctic Ocean, and many other places. As long as you try, you will always find your friend. This film made me feel sad if I ever lost my best friend. This film is not animated.

Fresh Guacamole
This is one of my favorite short films. It is about a person making fresh guacamole, and he gets a bunch of objects and turns them into other objects. For example, he turns a pincushion that looks like a tomato into red dice. When he is done making guacamole, he gets poker chips as chips. And he eats it. When he puts the poker chip in the guacamole, the poker chip breaks. It almost feels like it is real ingredients.

Extinction of the Saber-toothed Housecat
This film is a combination of animation and live action. This film is very funny. It is about a cat that is sleeping at first. Then he wakes up in the field, sits in the field and just stares there. He is licking his paws and “boom” something happens.

Kids Flix Mix 2 plays on May 4, 2013, at 11am at The Aero Theatre. Buy tickets in advance through this link to make a donation to the school of your choice.

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Reviewer Nicolas Ladreyt is 9 years old and a student at Roosevelt Elementary School.

Kids Flix Mix 2 is a collection of shorts, of which Christopher has reviewed several:

Snack Attack
You have to see this short, great movie. I would give it five stars. This movie appealed to me because it had very interesting characters. It was funny because an old woman and a teenage kid both acted differently than you would think. It had a surprising ending that you won’t forget.

Subway Train
A little crazy with music-making animals, but has great animation with hand drawn pictures. It was very creative, and good for anybody that likes animals and music. See this movie to believe me.

Fresh Guacamole
A man makes Guacamole with normal stuff. This makes it hilarious! Short but great!

The Painting
This unique movie is my favorite. It is an emotional and touching story about pictures coming to life with a lot of character drama. You need to see this -- a 5-star movie.

Kids Flix Mix 2 plays on May 4, 2013, at 11am at The Aero Theatre. The Painting plays May 5, 2013, at 11am at The Aero Theatre. Buy tickets in advance through this link to make a donation to the school of your choice.

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Reviewer Christopher Ladreyt is 9 years old and a student at Roosevelt Elementary School.

Kids Flix Mix 2 is a collection of shorts, of which Christopher has reviewed several:

Snack Attack
This short film was my favorite. It made me nervous because I felt for an old grandma who got scared. The story also had prominent animation that made you feel like you were in the movie. It also had a surprising end. It is a whirlwind of nervousness for the character and not knowing what will happen next.

The Extinction of the Sabre-toothed Housecat
This is a very fun film. They used the music well. Then, basing the story on a clever idea that connected two seemingly different events made it hilarious. It had great cartoon-like animation. The ending had a great twist. This is good because it amazes the watcher.

Subway Train
Turn up the music add some awesome pictures and voilà! Subway Train!
This short has the best animation of all! This is because everything was hand drawn. NO CAMERA !!!
Let’s be honest, no one uses hand drawn pictures anymore. That is what makes it special.

The Painting
This is a great, colorful film, and I for one have never seen anything like it. The idea of having "all-dones," "halvies," and sketches represent artwork at different stages of completion is just outstanding.
 

Kids Flix Mix 2 plays on May 4, 2013, at 11am at The Aero Theatre. The Painting plays May 5, 2013, at 11am at The Aero Theatre. Buy tickets in advance through this link to make a donation to the school of your choice.

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Reviewer Ian Brown is 9 years old and a student at Edison Language Academy.

Kids Flix Mix 2 is a collection of shorts; Ian has reviewed The Extinction of the Saber-toothed Housecat:

If you’re talking hilarious, The Extinction of the Saber-toothed Housecat, I think, would be the funniest film ever made in the world’s history. It’s dramatic, crazy cuckoo, hilarious, and it’s family-friendly. From one second old into your hundreds, even in your teens, this movie is one of the only movies that everyone would like if they knew about it.

It’s about a cat with long teeth who has a very unfortunate day and sadly does not survive it. Luckily it has no potty talk. It has real pictures with cartoons drawn over them and opera music.

So, my friends, this is your goal. After you see this movie, your whole world will change into happiness and laughter, and you’ll be dying to show it to everyone you know, and they’ll crack up and laugh with you every time.

The Extinction of the Saber-toothed Housecat plays as part of Kids Flix Mix 2 on May 4, 2013, at 11am at The Aero Theatre. Buy tickets in advance through this link to make a donation to the school of your choice.

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Reviewer William Kjenner-Love is 9 years old and a student at Edison Language Academy

Sketchy was my favorite character, because he had no color, and he was the one that didn’t get squished. He reminded me of C-3PO from Star Wars.

The movie was sad sometimes, because of the bad who were hurtful to the nice people, but in the end it was worth it to watch because it had an important lesson: all people should be accepted for what they are and not for what they look like.

I would most likely recommend my friends to see this movie.

The Painting plays May 5, 2013, at 11am at The Aero Theatre. Buy tickets in advance through this link to make a donation to the school of your choice.

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Reviewer Kai Lauer (Critic at Large) is 8 years old and a student at Edison Language Academy.

This is a very interesting movie. I liked it because it had a different take on what I like a lot in a movie: Action!

The movie makers managed to have big adventure happen in the setting of many different paintings! The characters would leap from the setting of one painting, a war scene, to another, like a landscape scene. This was not like any other animated films I'd seen. It showed animation in a "real world" setting (no space ships or aliens in this movie) and was very beautiful but also fast moving.

The important thing is that there was a lesson: people shouldn’t try to get others to be like themselves. They should accept other people as they are. I think a lot of people should go out and see this movie. It's different!

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Reviewer Maya Lauer is 10 years old and a student at Edison Language Academy.

For readers who may have forgotten, this wonderful film will be a gentle reminder to appreciate the way you are and things you have.

That’s the overlying message that The Painter delivers.

This animated film was great. The general idea is that the whole movie is a picture – all part of a painting – which helped symbolize the meaning or lesson that there is more to a painting than just the picture we see.

Helping to guide my appreciation was the style of animation. It was unlike any I have ever seen before. The style was much more artistic than in a cartoon style.

My favorite character was Lola, because, unlike the other characters in the movie, Lola appreciated the way she was. She wanted to stay a “halfie” (not a “whole person”) because she felt like that’s how she was born and how she was meant to be.

I definitely recommend the movie – great for kids and helps them understand what art is really about in a deeper way.

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Ethan Schmieder is 9 years old and a student in the third grade. Kids Flix Mix 2 is a collection of shorts; Ethan has reviewed The Extinction of the Saber-toothed Housecat:

This was my favorite cartoon. The cat is doing all the things that cats do: eat, play, stretch, be lazy, chase butterflies. The music with the meteor meant something scary was going to happen and then they go to the cat and he is playing. I would see this again with my friends. I did not like the Grandma Tree one and the one with the guy who takes off his head. Those were creepy. They didn't make sense and made me scared.

The Extinction of the Saber-toothed Housecat plays as part of Kids Flix Mix 2 on May 4, 2013, at 11am at The Aero Theatre. Buy tickets in advance through this link to make a donation to the school of your choice.

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