The music may have been good, and the sets may have been impressive, but I saw this movie in the theater, and I was ... disappointed. I wasn't sure just what this movie was trying to be. If it was supposed to be a film for the kids, then it shouldn't have been.
It just struck me as one of those movies that's trying desperately hard to be "big." It's got all this heartstring-yanking music, it's got Robin Williams ... and it's got Robin Williams bedding the girl, and flinging a bra over the head of a robot toy that's spying on them.
There are too many "kiddie" movies that I had the misfortune of seeing roughly around that time, having material thrown in apparently for the purpose making sure they got a PG rating - lest reviewers give it a knee-jerk "G" just because they think it's a kiddie movie - in the hope of getting better box office draws.
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Date: 2003-04-19 07:34 am (UTC)It just struck me as one of those movies that's trying desperately hard to be "big." It's got all this heartstring-yanking music, it's got Robin Williams ... and it's got Robin Williams bedding the girl, and flinging a bra over the head of a robot toy that's spying on them.
There are too many "kiddie" movies that I had the misfortune of seeing roughly around that time, having material thrown in apparently for the purpose making sure they got a PG rating - lest reviewers give it a knee-jerk "G" just because they think it's a kiddie movie - in the hope of getting better box office draws.