FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
utgard14 Critically panned fantasy movie about a boy named North (Elijah Wood) who decides he wants new parents who will appreciate him more. So he takes the matter to court and the judge rules the kid has the summer to either find new parents or return to his old ones or else he'll be thrown in an orphanage. I didn't care for North (the character or movie). It's all done in a light-hearted and joking way but the story is just so unpleasant and the characters so unlikable that it was a real struggle for me to finish. I see what Rob Reiner & co. were trying to do with this but they just failed badly. Most of that blame can be laid on the script, which is full of selfish characters, cheap stereotypes, and juvenile jokes about balls and cracks. The visuals are nice and the cast, full of some big names, certainly try their best. It just seems like one of those movies that is made for kids but somewhere along the way someone decided they should try to have it appeal to adults, too, so the whole thing just becomes a big misfire. Best part of the movie is the not-at-all subtle Federal Express product placement in one scene. Must have cost FedEx a good chunk of change to have one of the biggest stars in the world (in 1994) say their slogan in a movie.
SnoopyStyle North (Elijah Wood) keeps being ignored by his parents (Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus). He is all stressed out. After talking to the mall Easter Bunny (Bruce Willis), he decides to sue to become a free agent kid. He gets Arthur Belt (Jon Lovitz) as his lawyer. The judge gives North until Labor Day to find new parents or go back to his old parents or be sent to an orphanage. He goes off on a worldwide search for new parents with all kinds of wild couples applying.The basic premise demeans the idea of childhood and family. Other than that, there isn't anything particularly funny in this movie. I don't know if there is something about the Alan Zweibel novel that director Rob Reiner missed. It needs to have a wilder crazier wackier sense of style. It needs to bring the audience into a completely different world. The movie needs to be played like a kid's fantasy. Having Bruce Willis play various characters doesn't give it that magical feeling. This movie needs to be seen through a lens of magic. This is not simply boring or unfunny. This is wrong headed.
ryderjacob "North" is probably the most hateful movie I've seen in an extremely long time. With a god-awful script with extremely tasteless dialogue, a stupid plot and wasting the perfectly good talent of Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis and it's director Rob Reiner (A Few Good Men, The Princess Bride, Misery, When Harry Met Sally, etc.). This movie even makes me cringe when I'm sitting her writing this reviewA boy (Elijah Wood) gets fed up with his folks and decides to divorce them and go looking for a new set of parents, like Texans (Reba McEntire and Dan Aykroyd), Hawaiians, Eskimos (Kathy Bates, Abe Vigoda) Amish, etc.Everything in this film is UNBELIEVABLY bad! This is a very, very, very, very bad movie. Just like the great Roger Ebert, I hated this movie! I think Elijah Wood is a good actor, and the director Rob Reiner has made one terrific movie after another, but this is garbage. First class garbage!!! I'm sorry, but this sucked!!!
imnotjohncandy I don't need to say how bad this movie is because Roger Ebert and Doug Walker already have done that for us.It is garbage...no it's garbage of garbage that get spewed out by more garbage and compacted.Avoid this movie at all costs. I'm dead serious. The only thing that save this movie is Dan Akyroyd and he's just portraying a Texan stereotype.This movie makes The Room look good by comparison. Save yourselves from the black void that is this movie by watching something better.
