Luke Sader

A fast-moving Walt Disney Co. comedy that manages to sail past many of the cliches usually found in this genre while throwing together a wild story line more apt for a new millennium.

Raucously fun, fluid follow-up with ecological message.

A giddily subversive addition to the age-old cinema tradition of the horror comedy.

Slickly made -- in the good sense -- and most entertaining.

Fairly competent but hardly engrossing.

Predictable yet passably entertaining.

While youngsters might enjoy the movie, more discerning tweens, teens and adults will not be as easily amused.

Daddy's Little Girls may be heavy-handed and drearily predictable, but it also should connect with its core audience as solidly as Perry's previous efforts did, even if the drama is frequently just as over the top as its predecessors.

Probably needed more originality than is on display. With an age-old cinema theme of a young man's maturation, it also needs to land female ticket-buyers but seems a lot like something women could find at home on the WE channel.

Cain has crafted a modest picture, filmed in Canada, that too often feels like a very elaborate episode of "Gunsmoke."