Simply Perfect

From my favorite movies..

Fantastic!

Absolutely Fantastic

A great movie with a lot of star actors and actresses. It's fun and fanciful while it explorers deeper issues and meanings about ourselves. Definitely worth the watch with kids or the whole family.You should just ignore most of the other reviews. It seems as if people do not have a mind of their own and just keep spouting off about how "Siskel & Ebert didn't like it, therefore I didn't like it." So I guess 2 people speak for the entire world of film now? What a boring world that would be. How about you people actually watch the film and evaluate on your own accord; or is that too difficult? If so, then you should not be allowed to pass judgment on anything. What is the point of a review system when all you do is follow one or 2 people on what they think? Might as well just stop people from posting and just allow 1 person to make all decisions.

I can't believe this was one of my favorites when I was a kid. I actually watched it on multiple occasions, and couldn't see how ridiculously bad it is.First, who names their kid North? That alone is ridiculous--always assumed it was about someone traveling north (which he does in one scene, but that's not the point). North is a kid who is an only child, and feels neglected by his parents with them working all the time, paying no attention to him, never coming to his games/school functions, and fighting at the dinner table. His adventures to come are so unrealistic, not funny, and beyond cheesy/corny--STUPID!Even on your most boring night with absolutely nothing to do, you'd be better off to sit at home and twiddle your thumb than to see this waste of time and disgrace to the film industry. Sorry I ever was that stupid to think it was cool; boy was I a mindless little tyke!

Just to make one thing clear before I review this: I never heard or watched this film before. I mean, I was born in the 90s, but I didn't even know this came out the same year as Disney's The Lion King, one of my personal childhood favorites. What really drew my attention to it was not only the Nostalgia Critic review, but the Siskel & Ebert review. At first, I thought it was gonna be one of those average family comedies, but given the quote from Siskel & Ebert themselves (It's junk. First class junk. It's a movie that makes me cringe even when I'm sitting here thinking about it.), I'm personally at their side now.I thought it had a creative, but somewhat sad and unrealistic premise: A boy who leaves his neglected parents and searches all over the world for better ones. It has a talented cast including Bruce Willis, Jason Alexander, and others and one of the greatest directors of all time Rob Reiner who made such great hits like Misery, When Harry Met Sally, and The Princess Bride. But, when I watched the whole thing online, I became shocked at how unbelievably cruel and horrendous this movie is and is by far the director's embarrassing project that he had ever done in the history of filmmaking. However, I don't think it's the worse for there are some nice scenery throughout the film and I think I like the Texas song sequence sang by Reba McEntire. Apparently, those redeeming qualities are completely ruined by it's flaws especially it's lazy and cheap cop-out ending. Like I said before, it has a talented cast, but they seem to be wasted by a terrible script, unfunny one-liners, and clumsy direction from Rob Reiner. The characters are poorly conceived. I don't hate Elijah Wood, but I did find him rather obnoxious here and the music from Marc Shaiman is instantly forgettable. Even the story is thinly plotted it doesn't try what it wants to be.Overall, North isn't the worse movie I've seen, but it's still a horrible movie that needs to be avoided at all costs.

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.