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Summary: Tiny little people,great adventure. 22nd april 2004.
Review: A GREAT film for anyone. They are tiny and a boy rescues them. But when they fall out of the removal van, they go back to where they used to live and they get caught but the man who is there is dying to kill them. But all they do is borrow not steel, really they are friendly people but he the horrible man dosen't realise that. The boy is the only one out of his family that knows about them, he keeps it a secret he makes an excuse to get out of the van, but they just carry on driving. When he finally reaches his new house, he rides back to his old house to try and find them. The two kids and their 2 parents are split up from each other. He drives them to the old house as fast as possible to find their lost 2 kids. But they are only tiny people so they have to be very careful. And the adventure carries on great film.
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Summary: enjoyable for adults and children.
Review: An outstanding and entertaining family movie
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Summary: Dumbed-down version still offers tasty eye candy for dessert
Review: I have been fortunate to see all three adaptations of THE BORROWERS on video back to back. A pleasant experience I must say with each film having slightly different plot developments to keep me interested. The Eddie Albert TV version of the early 70's (four stars) had charm due to its modest budget (and uneven acting), and had it's stage-like dramatic moments. Today's children might squirm, but back then kids could really sit still for a good story. The Turner-BBC miniseries THE BORROWERS and BBC follow-up RETURN OF THE BORROWERS (both five stars) will always be the definitive and most believable work due to a stellar cast (including Sir Ian Holm as Pod Clock), faithful story-line (in what appeared to be on location to a tee), perfect camera work, no CDI effects, and about 7 hours or so to tell the entire epic saga with more adventures than a dozen movies rolled in together. The latest version (three and a half stars)...is too heavily influenced by "Home Alone" antics, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" peril, and "Toy Story" marketing (great films, but who wants to be reminded of other films?), and relies too much on computer effects over solid direction (the actors are great but are given very little room to act), has its moments (namely in set design, special effects, and aforementioned variations of other movies) but ultimately does not live up to the potential reached in earlier versions. Eye candy is just that. Mary Norton's novel (she also wrote 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks'), is full proof and adaptation safe so it is not a bad film at all, just that this film is best served as a tasty dessert to the other more-filling versions which offer great character devlopment, and teaches children and adults a thing or two about morality and mortality. The latest film just tries to WOW us. A true fan, of course, must have each course of this magical series of films. So seek them all and enjoy. Buy them, rent them, or better yet, borrow them as quickly as you can.
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Summary: Fun Adaptation of Norton Classic
Review: I just had the opportunity to see the film The Borrowers starring John Goodman as the evil Mr. Potter. Overall the movie is fun and entertaining and it has been so long since I read the books that I can't be sure the weak points originate in the movie (although I believe they do).The movie is based upon a series of books by Mary Norton about a race of small people who live in the cracks and walls of the world and are known for borrowing things from humans (or beings). The story centers around one borrower family who are the last of their kind in an old house. Their existence is threatened when the evil Mr. Potter sees to kicking out the being inhabitants in order to knock the house down. There then follows a series of adventures as borrowers and beings alike try to save the house from destruction. The weak points in the movie concern anachronisms. For the most part the movie is set decades ago as in the books. But annoying anachronisms pop up such as a cellular phone and an in-door ice maker. Considering the vintage of the vehicles on the street these items really stand out. But despite the anachronisms the movie remains entertaining with some very good performances from Goodman and the rest of the cast.
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Summary: Fun Adaptation of Norton Classic
Review: I just had the opportunity to see the film The Borrowers starring John Goodman as the evil Mr. Potter. Overall the movie is fun and entertaining and it has been so long since I read the books that I can't be sure the weak points originate in the movie (although I believe they do). The movie is based upon a series of books by Mary Norton about a race of small people who live in the cracks and walls of the world and are known for borrowing things from humans (or beings). The story centers around one borrower family who are the last of their kind in an old house. Their existence is threatened when the evil Mr. Potter sees to kicking out the being inhabitants in order to knock the house down. There then follows a series of adventures as borrowers and beings alike try to save the house from destruction. The weak points in the movie concern anachronisms. For the most part the movie is set decades ago as in the books. But annoying anachronisms pop up such as a cellular phone and an in-door ice maker. Considering the vintage of the vehicles on the street these items really stand out. But despite the anachronisms the movie remains entertaining with some very good performances from Goodman and the rest of the cast.
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Summary: Cool and Funny Movie
Review: I really liked this movie because it was funny and sad.
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Summary: The Borrowers
Review: I really liked this movie. I thought it was very funny. It also had 2 cast members who where later in the 2nd Harry Potter movie. Tom Felton (a very young Tom) and the guy who played Mr. Weasley. He was the exterminator. There was one part that I thought was falling down funny. I won't say what it was but it had to do with Tom Felton. He must have been about 7 or 8 years old in this movie. His name was Peagreen Clock.
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Summary: The Borrowers
Review: I really liked this movie. I thought it was very funny. It also had 2 cast members who where later in the 2nd Harry Potter movie. Tom Felton (a very young Tom) and the guy who played Mr. Weasley. He was the exterminator. There was one part that I thought was falling down funny. I won't say what it was but it had to do with Tom Felton. He must have been about 7 or 8 years old in this movie. His name was Peagreen Clock.
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Summary: The fun and enchanting Clock family
Review: I recently saw The Borrowers although it is a few years old. I love it! Part of the reason why I love it so much is because it has Tom Felton in it! Tom Felton plays little Peagreen, the youngest child in the Clock family. I liked all of the characters though. Arriety Clock was really very cool. She is Peagreen's big sister. I like her hair...John Goodman played Ocious P. Potter in this movie. He was really quite funny! Well, if you haven't seen it, you definitely should!
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Summary: Exelent
Review: i think the film is fantastic i especialy like Raymond Pickard in this film and wish there were more pictures of him available. i think the film is funny and exciting. i have given this film five stars because it is unbelevably good.
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