"Shorts" **1/2 (out of four): Director Robert Rodriguez returns to family-friendly fare with a film that's sure to entertain the youngsters but offers little to the 14-and-over crowd.

Although director Robert Rodriguez may have gotten his start with an ultra low-budget action flick ("El Mariachi"), he's no stranger to family-friendly fare ("Spy Kids", "The Adventures of Shark Girl and Lava Boy"). "Shorts" brings Rodriguez back to the kid flick genre, where adult characters are really just caricatures fleshed out enough to provide plot fodder, while the story revolves primarily around the kids.

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