But it's for the kids!

keakakui

I am only commenting on this "movie" because of previous criticisms listed above.  This "film" was never in cinema houses because it was produced as a children's special for HBO.  It's really too bad that others can't manage to see it through the eyes of its intended audience:  a seven-year-old who is enthralled by the likes of Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt, Scott Glenn, Catherine O'Hara, Roger Aaron Brown, Scott Wilson, William H. Macy and Burgess Meredith acting out his/her favorite childhood stories.  Come on! Who WOULDN'T have fun watching this cast?  I, for one, am glad that there is still mindless, FUN entertainment for children to watch in between the movies we adults view that are full of explosions, blood, gore and full frontal nudity.  I'm certainly no prude, and I don't even HAVE children -- I just remember fully what it was like to be a child!

score /10

keakakui 7 February 2004

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0350887/