Rating of
2/4
Too Cheesy...
Franz Patrick - wrote on 10/15/08
I always like children’s movies because I’m a kid at heart but this one is one of those few exceptions. There’s not much story that can be found here unless one would like to see fake animals helping out the characters. Even though I did enjoy watching Jodie Foster as an agoraphobic writer (her trip to the island was pretty funny), I feel like she could’ve been on a different (and better) movie than waste her talents here. I didn’t care much for Gerard Butler because I’m not a fan, but I didn’t care for his character either. On the other hand, I thought Abigail Breslin is pretty good and I like her in pretty much every movie she’s in. It’s hard for me to give this movie a bad rating because everything seems to be trying too hard. I agree that they have something here, but only a quarter of it worked. Maybe with a little more focused writing to improve the story and completely remove those distracting fake animals, this movie could’ve been something else entirely. This is more a children’s movie than a family movie because the film pretty much doesn’t offer anything to the adults. Overall, it’s a good movie if you’re babysitting and you want the kids to be quiet in front of the television as you prepare their dinner. Otherwise, it’s nothing terribly special.
