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That was an excellent one.

good back-story, and good acting

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The movie literally starts out with the cat purposefully getting abandoned by its owners - they throw a ball out of the car, wait for the cat to get it, and then drive away. Even though that's a terrible way to start a movie, you can almost get past it because the youngest kids won't realize that's what happened. Then for the majority of the movie the poor cat, Thunder, is constantly being threatened that it is going to die. The rabbit Jack and the nephew David, I think, are constantly saying it's going to die. The movie sends horrible messages to young kids like if you get too old your nephew is going to trick you into signing power of attorney over to him and he'll put you in an old folks home, sell your house, and/or demolish the house.The nephew is constantly saying that DAMN cat. I don't know about you but I don't want young kids, my niece is 5 and I watched it with her, hearing DAMN being constantly said. Also, the nephew is straight up trying to kill Thunder. Like not in the playful cartoon way. He is literally chasing him around the house shooting a shot gun at him. Very, very realistic. And when that doesn't work, he steals a wrecking ball and starts to demolish the house! I found this movie on the kids section on Netflix. This is no way a suitable movie for kids. I trust the kids section to have appopriate content for my nieces. I also rely on it in when I teach younger students and there is no way I could show them this movie. It is too dark and violent with inappropriate language to show any kid!

Look I know this is a kids movie but that doesn't mean they should add dumb down and over the top for kids. I am a massive fan of Magic and how it works and I even did a magic show in my school when I was 15. I watched this movie when I was about 16 and to be honest I felt embarrassed and insulted that I had to use the house computer for this piece of crap. This is a kids movie then hold on a second why is there a guy with in a radiation suit with an actual gun trying to kill a cat? The animation is just pure ugly and the story was a bore.Yet the voice actors were good but I do feel sorry that they have Grant George (the voice of Ant Man from Avengers Assemble season 1-4 and the voice of many anime characters), Kyle Herbert (the voice of many anime characters) and Joey D'Auria (the voice Whisper from Yo Kai Watch) in this god for saken piece of crap. With help I could make a better movie then this garbage. Sorry if I am being harsh in my review but if you did enjoy this movie it's okay I respect your opinion. ;)

Most European animations intended for the mass market are often very disappointing either in a lame script or bland animation. Usually it is Hollywood that rules the roost here, but The House of Magic was a pleasantly surprising film released (in the UK) in a summer already overcrowded with family fare.Admittedly this film is aimed at a much younger market than say, the Marvel Films but nonetheless it is still doing the rounds where other animation like The Nut Job, How to train your dragon 2 and Planes 2 are also on release. I am a little surprised the distributors put it out during the summer because it obviously won't have the same kind of publicity as those big American productions but nonetheless I am glad to see it has been reasonably well received because it is actually quite watchable and likable. Although I saw the film in 2D I could see the scenes designed for the 3D release and can quite understand those that think its is one of the better 3D releases.The story is not terribly sophisticated, an abandoned little ginger kitten wanders into a spooky house and ends up fighting a greedy real estate agent who is trying to sell it behind his elderly magician uncle's back. After a sub plot involving the Rabbit and a mouse trying to get rid of the kitten the kitten ultimately ends up teaming up with the other inhabitants of the house (Rabbit, mouse, two lovebirds and various sentient inventions) plus two sick children to thwart him. The film does drag in a few places and is quite predictable but is extremely well animated, has fun with it's music cues (watch out for some classic British pop music from the 1980s) and will ultimately leave children and adults with a big grin on their face as the end credits roll. The script could have done with a few more laughs but anybody who has ever owned a cat will recognize how well translated the mannerisms of 'Thunder' the kitten have been done.Ultimately I found this to be an undemanding, very well animated and perfectly serviceable little film that has no offensive elements (although I agree with a previous reviewer who found the callous way the kitten is abandoned by its original owner to be a little bit upsetting). Nonetheless the film moves on quickly from that start and the reasons why he was abandoned are briefly addressed in the story (economic recession).I was going to give this film a 6 but 'Thunder' is such a cute creation and probably the most lovable cat in a film since Puss in Boots from Shrek that I gave it a 7.

First the good. The animation of the movie is not Pixar, but it is really good. Some of the characters are adorable, and there is a good message of forgiveness, friendship and acceptance in the story.The story is amusing at times, but in general it is not super entertaining. You will not find yourself remembering this movie one month after you watched it. This is the kind of movie you watch, it distracted you and then it faded into memory...Now the bad, that actually made me uncomfortable watching the movie. The movie literally starts with a little kitten being abandoned. Maybe this shocked me more than it should, and maybe a little kid would not notice this, but nonetheless it is a very sad way for the whole story to start. This is not one of those "cute kitten left in a box" moment, this is "a car stops and throws a cat away" moment. Later in the movie, there is a moment when the evil nephew is literally chasing the cat with a shotgun. And this could be a funny scene, a la Looney Tunes, but it is not. The evil nephew has the intent to kill, and he's giving his best to do so. I watched my share of Tom and Jerry when I was a kid, and this is not that friendly, funny, intent to catch. This is a grow-up, who hates this particular cat, trying to get rid of it, in a chasing sequence where shotgun rounds are fired very close to the cat, continuously destroying the house, with a somewhat realistic look for what should be a children's cartoon.