Based on the novel “The True Meaning of Smekday” by Adam Rex, HOME is a sweet animated film that is equal parts cheery and poignant.  Aimed more at kids than at adults, it takes the time-honored themes of friendship, family, and keeping promises and wraps them in an imaginative new package as shiny and inviting as the one HOME’s heroine, Tip, longs to deliver to her mother.

The hero of the film…

Tiffany Ward & Rob Minkoff — MR. PEABODY AND SHERMAN

  Tiffany Ward and Rob Minkoff, San Francisco, CA 2/21/14

You better be careful when you take on a classic.  For more than one generation, Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman were must-see television, as were the other denizens of the Jay Ward animation world, which includes Rocky, Bullwinkle, and Dudley Do-Right. Other adaptations for the big screen of Ward’s work have not been successful, but it is…