I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I have to say that I was becoming a fan of the show, up until last show, and the apparent forcing of a political party on her son, and the whole underlying theme that god forbid we have 4 more years of this. Yes we all grow up listening to our parents and what their political party is and why it is better than the other, but my mother never said, my son is a democrat.She let me choose. Anyway I didn't find it entertaining, when they put the 'under 21' wristband on Bobby, and it just so happened to be Red, and the mom promptly takes the scissors and says "my son isn't a republican" and proceeds to cut the band off. Sorry but just my opinion, and we'll see if I watch this Hollywood democratic show again. Maybe in an upcoming show Bobby will have to do a report on Fahrenheit 911.

Jack and Bobby is by the far the best new show of the year,and one of the best shows on television.It is an intelligent and enjoyable drama with great actors.What more do you want?Oh wait,from what I've been reading from some people here is that it is boring and predictable.You know what I see?I see an intelligent drama that is just too intelligent for the vast majority of people.They would rather watch the crap that is reality television or gritty crime shows such as CSI which is the most predictable show on television.I'm not saying CSI is bad,I watch it and its okay,but it is just a crime/forensic drama that doesn't involve much thinking at all,I have always guessed the killers right off,and have always been right.As for reality TV,it is ruining great dramas such as Jack and Bobby,Angel 3rd Watch which is better than ER but doesn't get near as many viewers.Jack and Bobby is beyond reality TV,it involves people to think and to get sucked in,reality TV is for the people who find it hard to think.Great acting from all the cast,most notably Christine Lahti and the young Logan Lerman and great writing from Greg Berlanti(Everwood),Thomas Schlamme(The West Wing),Vanessa Taylor(Everwood and Alias) and directors such as David Nutter (Without a Trace,Roswell,The X-Files), provide a top quality show that is just too intelligent for many people.

There's nothing refreshing or new about Jack & Bobby. Despite all the hype about the allusions to another Jack & Bobby, it turns out that this is just another excuse for the WB network to put on a "drama" with fresh-faced suburban white kids who seem to be only preoccupied with sex and appearing cool. As for the threadbare cliché of the American presidency as the hallmark of greatness, well, we only have to look to recent history to see that such a claim is laughable. It's high time for middle-class America to take a long, hard look at itself to see that it doesn't even come close to being the breeding ground for greatness that it imagines itself to be. Rather, it perpetuates mediocrity and conformity at every turn. I'm only sorry to see the always-wonderful Christine Lahti being wasted in such tripe. Jack & Bobby -- give me a break!

I watched the first episode of Jack & Bobby which airs tonight on a promotional DVD that was provided by Entertainment Weekly.The show is innovative, it is a futuristic documentary that centers around the president of the United States between 2040-2048 and looks back to when he was a normal (or not so normal) kid in our present day. The show is pretty darn innovative, mixing some great creativity of our future, with some even more great realization of our current lives. It shows how one child, not too different from you and me can grow up to be president.The cast is nice, great chemistry between all of the actors, and no significantly weak links among any of the cast, although the boy who plays Bobby's conformist friend could have stood some more acting lessons. The story for the pilot was great, it involved Bobby's mother and brother fighting over how he should be raised, and it deals with drugs in a smart gritty way, not how 7'th Heaven would deal with it. But again, most of all is how the show seems to blend Futuristic Political Documentary With Present-Day gritty drama, so seamlessly.8/10 - I have high hopes for this one!