Reviews

I loved the movie, but the girl dying ruined the entire story for me. What was the point? This lonely, ostracized boy finally finds a friend, with whom he invents a way to cope with the daily heartache of ten year old life, only to lose her, ironically, via the bridge that inspired the fantasy land that made it all possible? Was the author TRYING to torture children? Or perhaps she was trying to make them afraid of ever doing anything on their own, for fear that their best friend might DIE if they don't bring her along on every single outing. (I know, I know. She wrote the book for her son, whose best friend died. How this story made him feel better about it is beyond me.) Forgive me, but I feel that movies and books for children should show peril and frightful scenes; however, in the end, everything should turn out OK. These are kids. Kids need to feel safe and secure. They do not need to know that they can lose their best friends to unexpected freak accidents the one time that they choose to go off and do something solo.

This movie has to be the worst piece of utterly ridiculous and predictable nonsense that I have ever seen. Its so bad that it actually has comic appeal. The real disaster here is that Hollywood actually spent $125 million on this monstrosity and wasted the talent of actors such as Denis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. I wonder how they were able to keep a straight face while reciting the idiotic lines for this junk. I am personally insulted that Hollywood apparently believes that us "little people" are so naive that we could actually fall for this propaganda. And just where do they get the idea that a new ice age could be brought about by global warming as a result of us using up our natural resources and creating too much pollution? While I am environmentally conscious myself, we cannot ignore that the last ice age occurred thousands of years ago, well before there were cars or anything else polluting the environment. Put this movie on the shelf with Plan 9 From Outer Space and the rest of the Golden Turkeys.