It's hard to live knowing that 60-year-old men are seriously critiquing children's movies. I mean, yeah you can rate the film on how appealing it is for adults--but some kid's movies are purely for kids. This film is about Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser) who has recently moved his family from big-city Chicago to rural Connecticut (I think) for a job demand by his boss (Ken Jeong) who wants him to work on tearing down the forest to build acres of houses and shopping malls. Along with his wife (Brooke Shields) and his son (Matt Prokop) who are trying to stop him, the animals of the forest are getting their revenge and showing Dan how much they don't like what he is about to do.
Honestly, the film had some really funny, non-kiddy parts where I found myself laughing out-loud. I mean, the film was unrealistic at all costs, but it served a good message of protecting mother nature. I can see why the animals would get mad and play some pranks on Dan, however, some of the pranks that they played went beyond humorous and drifted into "umm, that's not ok" territory. In other words, some of the things that they were doing to Dan were life-threatening and kind of made you angry at the animals along with Dan. Especially since they were attacking Dan, who was following orders, and seemed to completely ignore his boss--who was GIVING the orders and pretty much threatening Dan to do exactly what he told him to.
If it wasn't for the animals going overboard, I would be happy to give this movie a good grade, however, I don't think that kids will think of these pranks as seriously and realistically as many adults. I think that this film, more or less, accomplished its task of being a solid children's film.
Overall Grade: B+
-Ethan Brehm
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