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Carrot Top stars in this hilarious movie, which could be described as part of his autobiography. He plays Edison, a novelty inventor with ideas such as an emergency brake for his surfboard. His biggest regret is that he took four years of chemistry and he still doesn’t know what’s in Cheez Whiz.

When Edison is in danger of being evicted by his mean, unforgiving landlord (played by Estelle Harris, who also plays George Costanza’s mother on Seinfeld”), he happens to meet Armand McMillan (Jack Warden), the owner of McMillan Industries, a novelty company.

McMillan dies, leaving his fortune and his company to Edison. McMillan’s conniving son is outraged and fights to get rid of Edison, resulting in a plot typical in these types of movies. That’s the downside. Also disagreeable was the coarse language. But if those two elements can be put aside, you can end up seeing a great comedy. Part of what makes it so good is that the supporting cast contributes to the humor, allowing some variation on the Carrot Top routine.

For Carrot Top’s first feature film, he does an excellent job of acting. This is probably because his character is pretty much how he acts on stage: zany, wacky and sometimes very, very strange. On the whole, this is a better movie for teenagers because they will get the jokes (and think they’re funny) because that’s who the jokes are aimed at.

It’s a great movie, and it will leave you laughing and laughing.

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Michael Richards and Jeff Daniels team up in the movie dubbed “the second most outrageous trial of the century.”

Richards, better known as Kramer on “Seinfeld,” and Daniels are an actor-lawyer combo that will cause you to split your sides laughing. Daniels plays Charlie Tuttle, a lawyer who graduated from Yale University. His best friend, Richard Rietti (Richards), is an actor and the best man for his upcoming wedding. Rietti is not too bright, but he has a talent for creating the illusion of something that is not there. When he tried out for a part, he plays a small scene of a man getting thrown against the wall, and it looks like there is someone throwing and beating him.

Early on in the movie, Charlie gets a call from his boss, telling him he should go to Nevada to defend Benny Gibbs (Rip Torn), a man guilty of selling pennies through the mail for .95 each, claiming they were copper engravings of our 16th president. Tuttle is supposed to ask for a continuance; Rietti ends up filling in for him. The judge denies the continuance, forcing Rietti to continue to act as a lawyer, causing the hilarious scenes that follow.

The combination of Richards, someone who uses his entire body to make something humorous, and Daniels, a somewhat serious actor, is what makes this movie a must-see. It’s more like a PG movie than PG-13, I think. It’s a movie the whole family could enjoy together.

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“Father’s Day,” starring Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, can be described as disappointing, even with the amazing comic talents of these two men. The problems with it were obvious: Many parts of the movie just
didn’t connect with each other, and too many scenes had language more rough than this type of movie could handle. The movie was billed as a hilarious comedy, but it turned out to be a so-so movie with actors who saved it from rolling over and dying. Better dialogue might have saved the film. But there was too much swearing.

The plot basically involves a woman who tells two different men that he could be the father of her 16-year-old son, Scott. Scott has run away with his girlfriend, and she want 3 both men to look for him. Williams plays a crazed writer, Dale Putney, who has attempted suicide umpteen times. Crystal plays Jack Lawrence, a lawyer. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (Elaine on “Seinfeld”) plays Lawrence’s wife, who is upset about what she does know and even more about what she doesn’t.

“Father’s Day” could be described as a good movie with bad parts or a bad movie with a few good parts. Either way, the two stars did not live up to what was expected of them or the comic talents they’ve shown in their previous movies.

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George Lucas’s third movie in the “Star Wars” saga, which is actually the sixth episode, has brilliantly filled in all of the empty spaces left by “The Empire Strikes Back.”

It has some very exciting climactic points, such as the unveiling of Anakin Skywalker, AKA Darth Vader, the downfall of Jabba the Hutt, and a discovery about Princess Leia. “Return of the Jedi” introduces many new characters, including umpteen Ewoks and the evil Emperor. You get to learn more about Luke’s father, as well. At the end of “The Empire Strikes Back,” Han Solo (Harrison Ford) had been frozen in carbonate and delivered to Jabba.

“Return of the Jedi” starts with some heroic rescue efforts by Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Luke (Mark Hamill). Their ventures get them facing death by digestion, but as you might guess, they aren’t knocked off. Luke then flies to the Dagobah system to finish his Jedi training, but he faces the untimely death of Yoda. Even on his death bed, Yoda is still capable of making witty remarks. But Yoda also reveals that if Luke is struck down, another might have the power to defeat the Empire. This all is topped off with the rebels’ attack on the reconstructed Death Star and the battle of Luke and Vader. Even though the movie holds you on the edge of your seat, there were some bad parts, such as the unlikely way in which Jabba died, and also how easily Luke killed the monster in a cage beneath Jabba. “Return of the Jedi” ties up all of the loose ends and does a fantastic job of keeping up the level of excitement started by “Star Wars.” The “Star Wars-Special Edition” was a success and has shown a whole new generation the magic in the mind of George Lucas.

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“The Empire Strikes Back” has added a completely new twist to the “Star Wars” trilogy. It gives a whole new meaning to the word action. In most trilogies that l have seen, the second movie is not as good as the first — same with the third movie. But in George Lucas’s “Special Edition: Star Wars Trilogy,” the subsequent film is actually better than the first. It has better picture quality and better acting.

“The Empire Strikes Back” adds some new characters; it introduces Yoda, an ancient Jedi master who is “a guy who looks like a Muppet but he’s wrinkled and green,” as Weird Al Yankovic says. It also adds Tauntauns, dinosaur-like animals used as horses by t he rebels. Most of the original cast from “Star Wars” is back, complete with R2D2, C3PO and Chewbacca the Wookie. Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) also are back. The movie starts out on the ice planet of Hoth. Luke has a brush with death before the troops are forced to evacuate because of Imperial troops. He had a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi telling him to go to the system of Dagoba to meet Yoda. Luke goes there, finds Yoda and starts his training. But he leaves before he’s finished because he thinks his friends are in trouble; however, Darth Vader has set a trap for him.

There are some disappointments in the movie: Vader never actually says the famous line, “Luke, I am your father.” Also, if you want to fully grasp all of the happenings in this movie, you have to see the third movie, which is a good thing for the film industry, because many people will now want to see the third movie, “Return of the Jedi,” which will be re-released this month. This is a great movie. But, like i said, it will leave you wanting more.

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“Sold out.” Those were the words repeated over and over by the people selling tickets at Rock Theatres in Janesville. ironically, one of the few bad things about the movie is that it’s so good. Three of the afternoon shows were filled a half-hour before they started. Everything else, though, was fantastic.

George Lucas’s special effects gave the movie some extra character to somewhat draw the feeling of the ’70s away from the theater. Some computer-animated creatures were added, and so was a five-minute conversation between Han Solo and Jabba the Hut that had been cut from the original.

As you probably know: Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) is on a spacecraft that is attacked by a Jedi knight gone bad, Darth Vader. She has the computer layout of the Death Star, a spacecraft that has enough firepower to blow up a whole planet. She successfully stops Vader (whose voice is by James Earl Jones) from getting the plans by securing them inside one of the two-robots, C3PO and R2D2. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) try to save Princess Leia from being killed by Vader. But they need the help of a rogue pilot, Han Solo (Harris on Ford).

The picture is not as sharp as most movies you see these days. It sometimes little fuzzy around the edges, and you get the feeling that was just a videotape. But the rest of the movie completely counteracts that. Some of the things shot in “Star Wars,” which was released in 1977, seem like something out of a ’90s film.

This is a good film because of the new special effects, the lack of bad language, and for the message of good triumphing over evil.

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“Michael” is one of the year’s best family films, both for the comedy and for the meaning of the film. John Travolta plays the part of the drinking, smoking, joke-cracking archangel better than anyone could have imagined that it could be done.

Michael has come down from heaven to show everybody that sometimes they just have to learn to laugh. William Hurt plays Frank Quinan, a reporter for the National Mirror, a supermarket tabloid based in Chicago. His best friend Huey (Robert Pastorelli) is also a reporter, but he only has a job there because his dog resembles the dog their boss had when he was a kid. Sparky the dog is a big feature in the newspaper; he has his own column.

The reporters get a letter from Iowa reporting that an old lady who owns a motel has had an angel living with her for six months. They go to Iowa to check it out; Andie Ma Dowell also is assigned to go on the trip. When they get there, they find that Michael is nothing like they expected. He drinks, smokes and likes to pour sugar on everything. He also has a hobby of wanting to see the world’s largest anything — ball of twine, building, non-stick frying pan.

MacDowell and Hurt play the people that Michael has to come to Earth to unite; he had made a bet with God that he could get them to marry. One of the few bad things in this movie is that sometimes you can’t really tell what’s going on until 10 minutes after it has happened. Even so, “Michael” is one of the best new movies for people of all ages. There is practically no bad language except for one scene. And don’t forget what Michael says to Sparky: “No matter what anybody tells you, you can never eat too much sugar.”

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The famed AC-DC and Metallica shirt-wearers have come to the theaters only to prove that they aren’t cut out for the silver screen.

Beavis and Butt-Head play the main roles in this movie. While they are asleep and dreaming of being as tall as King Kong, their television set is stolen. They attempt to figure out why it’s gone with their only clues being the broken window, muddy footprints and the men loading a TV into a truck in their driveway.

They come to the idea that it is simply missing, and they go out to find it. On their way, they get involved in a murder case, they stumble into a man’s plan to kill the entire human race, and they meet a sweet old lady on a tour
bus.

The problems with the movie are the language and the off-color jokes. None of the jokes is suitable for children, which is why it got the PG-13 rating.

Even though the characters were created by a physicist (Mike Judge), they don’t seem to contain any of the genius from their creator. Beavis gets hooked on caffeine pills and goes crazy and sets off an alert that the
country is being attacked while he thinks that he is someone else.

There are only a few good parts in this movie, all pretty much in the first 10 minutes. Beavis and Butt-Head should learn that they are just better suited to sitting on their couch at home.

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“Myst: the surrealistic adventure that will become your world.” This is the slogan on the CD case. “Myst,” created by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller, is probably the most lifelike computer game on the market today. In it, you discover a book called “Myst” and when you reach the last page of the book, you are pulled in. You find yourself in the world you recently read about; you are the child of a great writer who is trying to gather the pages of three different books, all while solving complex puzzles.

“Myst” is full of the most realistic computer-generated images that you’ll ever find. It does have its flaws, though. Some of the puzzles are a little bit too hard to figure out without some help from somewhere. (“Myst” has its own strategy guide, sold separately) or by playing hours on end. When you can finally solve a puzzle, it
opens up a way to solve another. It also sometimes will open up a secret passage to other books and other worlds, where you will find the much-needed book pages.

“Myst” has been on store shelves for about three years, but it is still popular and easy to find. It can be found at most computer software stores.

It is very unlike many other popular CD-ROMs in that there are no guns, no killing. It surpasses others in almost every area, thanks to the creators at Broderbund and Cyan software who spent long periods of time perfecting all of the small details, ending up with a near perfect game.

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Editor’s note: “Here are the winners in JNL’s annual holiday fiction contest. Each winner received in cash and a JNL T-shirt and hat. Thanks to those who entered, and happy holidays to all.”

By Chris Finke, 12
St. Paul’s Lutheran School
Janesville

The best Christmas that Joe could remember was the year he turned 6 years old. His father had been at war, and his mother was pregnant with his younger sister, Julie. His mother had been explaining to him that Dad might not be home for Christmas. She told him that there was fighting in a country far, far away, across a big ocean, and that his Daddy was helping America fight.

Joe wasn’t completely sure what she was talking-about except that he hadn’t seen his Dad in a long time and that he wanted him to come home so he could play with him again.

Joe was busy making out his Christmas list one Saturday afternoon. He had thought long and hard about it, and all that he put down on his list was for his Dad to come home safe. He stuck it to the refrigerator with a magnet and told his Mom that he had finished his list and was going out to play in the snow.

When he got outside to the local sledding place, he met up with his older neighbor, Brad. Brad was 10 and thought he knew everything there was to know. Joe saw him running around with a pretend gun in his hands. He ran up to Joe and shot hum in the chest while making sound of explosions.

“Bang! You’re dead!” shouted Brad.

“I’m not dead,” Joe reported to Brad. “I’m going sledding.”

“I’m playing war, and you have to be dead. I shot you,” Brad said to Joe.

“My mom said that my Dad is at war,” Joe said slowly. “Is he going to die?”

Joe whimpered, his bottom lip trembling. Joe then ran off down the street all the way home.

Joe ran up the stairs to his room and leaped onto his bed, pushing his face into his pillow, and cried himself to sleep.

Joe walked downstairs. looking for his mother. When she saw his tear-stained face. she asked him what had happened.

“Is Dad going to die?” Joe asked quickly.

“Of course not. Who told you that?” his mother asked.

“Well, Brad was playing war and he shot me and he told me I was dead because he was playing war,” Joe quickly poured out to his mother.

“Brad was just pretending, honey,” Joe’s mother told him.

“So Dad’s not going to die?” Joe asked his mother.

“Of course not, sweetie,” his mother said to Joe. But to herself, she was even wondering about it.”

Joe woke up and heard voices downstairs. One was a man’s, one was a woman’s.

“Dad!” he thought to himself, and ran downstairs, skipping steps two at a time. But when he got there, he was disappointed to only see their neighbor, Mr. Arneson. Joe slowly walked to his room to get ready for his school’s Christmas Eve program that day.

Joe’s mother came home that night, carrying Joe in her arms, Joe already being fast asleep. She walked in the door, turned into the kitchen and saw that the lights were on. Her first thoughts were that she was being robbed, but when she took a look into the dining room, she couldn’t believe her eyes.

“Who are you?” she asked the man in red.

Joe slowly opened his eyes and stared up at the bearded man.

“Santa? he asked him.

“Hello there. little boy,” the man answered.

Joe had seen this man before. He wasn’t Santa.

“Dad!” Joe shot out of his mother’s arms and up into his father’s. “I knew you would make it!” Joe started crying

“Oh, Daniel,” Joe’s mother joined in on the hug and their whole family was back together again.

Joe remembered this well. It had been the best Christmas present and the best Christmas wish he had ever had.

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Sinbad and Arnold Schwarzenegger combine in this hilarious holiday comedy, proving their reputations of being talented and versatile actors.

Both are desperately seeking the new action figure, Turbo Man. Howard Langston (Schwarzenegger) promises his son anything he wants for Christmas — trying to redeem himself for missing his child’s karate belt presentation. The son demands Turbo Man, the star of his favorite television show.

Myron Larabee (Sinbad) is a postal worker in Minneapolis. He has a grudge against Langston because they’re both out for the same toy. They declare war on each other, bruising and injuring the other one at every chance.

Also in the movie are a psychotic reindeer, a disgruntled cop and, the whole cause of the madness, Turbo Man and his sidekick, Booster.

The reindeer is out to mutilate Langston, while the cop would probably settle for mangling him. The cop is a little grumpy because Langston broke the officer’s bike, ran him into a bus and set off a bomb in his hand.

This is a good movie for both kids and adults. But it is a little hard to believe that a father would actually go through all the things that Langston and Larabee go through just to get a toy for their kids. It is also hard to believe that there could be such a large demand for just one toy. But this movie does show how much a father would do for a son.

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The Tailgators’ new album wonderfully manages to combine the sounds of early rock ‘n’ roll, blues and Cajun country music. It starts off with “Hog Groove,” a song that harmonizes a tenor saxophone, electric guitar and
accordion. It’s a nicely written song with not-so-great lyrics but great rhythm and harmony. “Tico Tico” sounds like something you could do the tango to; it has no words but uses a guitar and drums. It’s not all that bad, but not really something you would expect on a Cajun — country album.

“Stop That Rappin'” has the rhythm of ’50s rock. The whole thing sounds like it could be recorded by Chuck Berry, right down to the lyrics. “Talk to Me” is about a man who wants his girlfriend to marry him. The lyrics are
good, the music even better. “Howlin’ for My Darlin'” probably has the best written lyrics of all the songs on the album, plus a couple of good guitar solos in the middle. “Onion Eyed Joe” has kind of humorous lyrics, and I’m
guessing the Tailgators had fun writing this one. “Deuces Wild” doesn’t have any lyrics, but it does have a sound like the Beach Boys — a lot of bass drum and mostly treble on the guitar. It’s clearer, easier to hear and has a more twangy sound. Through and through, the album was pretty good. If the Tailgators work on it, they could become well known in the business of country music.

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This movie could be called a “Dumb and Dumber” for kids because it has the same mixed-up kind of plot and the same kind of spaced-out characters.

Jessica Lundy and Tom Arnold star as Joan and Stanley Stupid. Their children are Buster and Petunia (played by Bug Hall and Alex McKenna). Joan and Stanley think someone has stolen their garbage (the garbage truck has taken it away) so they go in relentless pursuit of it. Stanley accidentally stumbles into a gang of thieves.

This movie is a mixture of humorous small plots (Stanley once worked for the US. Postal Service, got suspicious about all the letters marked “Return to Sender” and got fired for asking his boss who Sender was).

It’s hard to understand why they show the sky with stars and aliens; you figure it out later in the movie. Also, it looks kind of funny having computer-animated pets with real people. But I guess they had to be computer-animated for some of the stunts they had to do.

Overall, this is a totally outrageous and hilarious movie with a plot that adults might find kind of pointless but most younger kids will love.

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Sinbad stars in this fabulous movie about an agent who is assigned to protect the president’s son, Luke Davenport (played by Brook Pierce.) The role of Luke could easily have been better cast; Brock Pierce is not ready for a role on the big screen. He needs more acting lessons.

But Sinbad as Agent Sam Simms turns the whole movie around. He adds a certain twist to it with his jokes and with his neckties.

After Luke’s first bodyguard is fired, Simms is assigned to protect him. Instead of being stiff and spiritless, Sam is loose and likes to joke around.

Through the whole movie, there is a sort of war going on between Luke and a boy in his class played by Zachary Ty Brian. This boy is angry at Luke because he thinks Luke believes he’s better than everybody else; he’s also jealous that the girl he likes doesn’t like him, but likes Luke instead.

The only way that this movie could have been better is if they had had a better actor for the role of Luke. Overall, this movie is hilarious and one of the best kid films this year.

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Tom Arnold stars in this hilarious movie as Franklin Lazzle, a man who runs his own circus.

He’s broke, so he plans to rob a bank. Before he goes to the bank, he goes to Hammerman’s grocery store for a doughnut.

Meanwhile, Daniel, a father who is getting ready for work (ironically, he was going to make a presentation to Mr. Hammerman, the owner of the grocery store), finds out that his wife is sick and he has to drive the neighborhood car pool. He picks up all the kids, but they haven’t had breakfast yet, so he stops at Hammerman’s to get some Danish for them.

The cashier is held by two gunmen while Franklin and Daniel are in the store.

Franklin somehow ends up getting the money, and he decides he should have some hostages, so he takes Daniel and all the children.

After they get away from the cops, they stop at a salon to use the bathroom, and Franklin decides to paint the vehicle with hair dye so the police can’t identify it.

it was kind of hard to believe that they didn’t get any dye on the handles or windows. But this is still a two thumbs up, four star movie.

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With a cast from Jamie Lee Curtis to Kyle Howard to Ray Walston, this is one of the best children’s films of the summer.

Grover Beiner (Howard) is upset about his parents getting separated. His friend Matt jokes about looking them in the closet until they work things out. So that’s what Grover does — locks them in the basement.

When some kids from school hear about it, they want in, too. So Grover’s parents (played by Curtis and Kevin Pollack), TJ’s parents, Matt’s parents and Brooke’s mom are all looked in Grover’s basement.

Matt has a lot of knowledge of video equipment, so he helps everybody set up some cameras that let the parents see and hear their kids for “group therapy. The parents try to escape, creating some unlikely scenarios. But all in all, this is an amazingly hilarious and fabulous film.

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“From the idiots who brought you ‘Dumb and Dumber.'” That’s the ad for this movie, and it certainly fits it like a glove. When I got the chance to go to “Kingpin,” I was thinking it would be a good comedy. Boy, was I wrong.

The plot of this movie is that Roy Munson (played by Woody Harrelson) is a pro bowler who lost his hand in a fight in 1979 and now wears a rubber hand over a hook. He finds an Amish bowler, Ishmael (Randy Quaid), turns him into a great bowler, and takes him to Reno, Nev. to win million in a tournament. Ishmael does it to save his Amish community. But they have to compete against the man responsible for cutting Munson’s hand off, Ernie (Bill Murray).

Normally, this plot could have made a pretty good movie. But “the idiots from ‘Dumb and Dumber'” had to stick in a curse word every couple of minutes. There’s only about five scenes that they could show on television without bleeping anything out. Even though it wasn’t such a great movie, there were some parts that were pretty funny, such as when Roy visits the Amish village dressed as an Amish Irishman, then makes the frame of a barn topple over. But overall, this isn’t a very good movie, even though it had the aid of some splendid actors and actresses.

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Michael Keaton and Andie MacDowell do a fabulous job in this movie. Keaton had do do four times as much work, actually playing four roles by way of blue-screen technology. The four roles are Doug, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4.

Doug, who works for Del King Builders, doesn’t have enough time to do everything his boss and his wife expect him to do. So one day on the job, he meets a geneticist who has discovered how to make clones by working on viruses, earthworms, chimps and, finally, himself. Doug agrees to have a clone made of him. Then he ends up getting another Doug, each with a different personality. No. 2 is gruff and unpleasant. No. 3 is like a mother; he likes cooking and cleaning and talks in a soft voice. Then the clones get carried away and make a copy of No. 2. Usually, if you make a copy of a copy, it’s not as sharp as the original. So No. 4 is an off-the-wall and wacko kind of guy. He asks Doug if he can have a chainsaw, puts pizza in his wallet and calls Doug “Steve.”

The little bit of bad language in the movie wasn’t really even necessary, so they could have just as well left it out. But overall, this was a great movie for both the acting and the laugh-out-loud comedy.

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Robin Williams stars in this wonderful movie about a boy who grows four times as fast as normal. So when he is 10 years old in his mind, he has the body of a 40-year-old man.

all through the movie, Jack experiences hardships and magnificent times. At first, he is mocked by his classmates for being different. But once they get to know him, they like him for what he’s really like, not just what he looks like.

With the help of his tutor, Mr. Woodruff (played by Bill Cosby), his classmates and his parents (played by Brian Kerwin and Diane Lane), Jack realizes that he is rare and beautiful like a shooting star, not a freak and
an outcast as he had once thought. This is a great movie, but there are some confusing scenes, such as when
Jack is looking at the sky and sees the clouds and the sun moving faster than normal. The audience could be thinking it was just to show time passing, or it could be how Jack really sees things.

Even though this movie would probably be funnier to a teen than to an adult, it is an excellent movie and one you could really enjoy, no matter how old you are or how old you look.