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Snowtime
The film takes place in Athena, the animation and family comedy where the story takes place during the winter vacation. Sophie and Locke are 11 years old. Both have decided to set up a team and perform a competition to play snowballs. Their young colleagues participate in the school in the small village where they live. Competition began to win over the other team.
11 May 1960, Rigaud, Québec, Canada
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February 18, 2016
Snowtime! explains the topic of war in a "safe" manner that tempers things with a healthy dose of fun and laughter. It's like a really good Newberry Medal-winning book.February 18, 2016
Snowtime! wants to be much more than a Saturday morning animated distraction.February 12, 2016
If your kids get bored watching Snowtime!, that may be more of a comment on our hyperactive culture than it is on this gently funny story about kids who actually play outside all day.February 21, 2016
The charming script, credited to four writers, turns on a dime when tragedy befalls one of the characters.February 18, 2016
That's the charm (and the quandary) of this film. Sophisticated in its look and feel on the one hand (the warm hues and tones evoke a warmth that defies the wintry cold), it's almost too retro for its own good on the other.August 02, 2016
Snowtime! doesn't have too complicated of a story-kids living in a small town plan a massive snowfight-but that simplicity will make it work for younger kids.February 18, 2016
It is aimed at younger children and includes pretty songs, but it doesn't soft-pedal anything. Its low-key story is about friendship, but it's also about loss, which should leave pint-size viewers with plenty to think about.February 18, 2016
The characters remain underdeveloped, a problem complicated by the weightless, unexpressive animation.February 20, 2016
The overall tone is sweet and simple. Besides, eight million French-Canadians can't be wrong.February 18, 2016
"Snowtime!" is by turns ribald (there's a flatulent dog), boisterous (there's charging through the snow with wooden swords wildly waved), tender (there's a boy grieving quietly for a father killed in a real war) and, yes, tragic.February 18, 2016
Despite a few diverting moments and some ambitiously dramatic themes, this one is simply too uneventful and too populated by thinly sketched characters to keep its target audience engaged.March 10, 2016
Aimed at very young audiences, the cheerier remake - with voice work by Sandra Oh as the young architect of a snow fort and a song by Céline Dion - is more distinguished by its charming animation than how it handles the storyline.