Pete's Meteor

Rating:
Summary: Painfully bad movie
Review: Being able to understand what the characters were saying might have made a major difference in my rating, but this movie is totally not understandable. The heavy accents made it impossible for us to watch more than 10 minutes of the movie. It was a pure pleasure to turn it off.

Unless you were born in Ireland, you may have trouble understanding what they are saying. I feel this DVD was truly money wasted.

Rating:
Summary: Pointless, unhappy, a downright waste of time.
Review: I watched this movie because I was curious to know if Mike Myers would be able to do a serious role. He did turn his humour off but his character was too boring and had no in-depth consideration at at all.
The movie is about an Irish boy and his younger siblings going through a tough time in their lives, recently recovering from the loss of their parents. After a meteor ends up in their backyard, they conclude that it's a gift from their parents and go to an extrordinary effort to retrieve it after a dopey scientist takes it away for study.
The film lacks character and has no message at all. It was a sad movie with odd parts, and had no potential at all; I was completely ashamed with it. And why the young boy named the meteor 'Pete's Meteor' is utterly trivial; what did Pete have to do with it anyway?

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Summary: Wonderful little gem of a movie
Review: In complete contrast to a previous reviewer, I loved this movie. It portrays very realistically a family in a poor part of Dublin, battling with all kinds of problems, without ever being maudlin or depressing - in fact I found it quite heartening.

A wonderful performance by the little boy who plays Mickey, a surprisingly sensitive performance by Mike Myers, and good turns by the other actors; great use of color in the cinematography, and well-paced: one's interest never flags. A quirky little movie in a class of its own.

I've seen this movie twice on VHS and intend buying it on DVD now to add to my collection.

Rating:
Summary: it's not that bad
Review: it's a drama with a little bit of family comedy. mike myers is not the main person but the family is. alfred molina is of course great in anything. the acting is very good in the movie. i would say buy this movie but don't watch it right away. wait intill your stuck at home or have just got up really early. some parts or the effects are sort of cheesy. but what ever. just wait intill an irish movie has great special effects. it would be a lot better then the matrix revolutions.

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Summary: Terrible, very depressing AWFUL film
Review: There is not one thing to recommend this horribly depressing film. Mike Meyers ends up with a gun shot in his forehead and I suspect he wishes it had happened at the start of this film so he could have been out of it earlier.

The accents are extremely hard to understand, especially the children who have the most dialogue so many of the lines are completely lost.You can't even turn on subtitles to understand what is going on as the only ones offered are in Spanish.The main boy is a truly unpleasant, mean character given to temper tantrums, spitting at people, kicking them, fighting with everyone. A viewer wishes he would be the one who gets shot just because he is so unpleasant.

The package asks if you believe in miracles. The only miracle is that this truly unpleasant film ever got made and released. AVOID IT!

Rating:
Summary: Had potential but disappointed
Review: This movie tries to be hard biting drama with a message, but it got lost in a wilderness of poor srcipt and underdeveloped charactars.
The kids are annoying rather than lovable. I had no interest in anyone. We watched it to the end in the hopes that somewhere there would be a glimmer of what could have been.
Right at the end there's a good example of the poor plot.
The neighbours arrive to complain about the meteor and the main kid (who I cared so much about I have no idea what his name was) talks about how that started the "war of the metoer", but they won - no explanation of how, no footage of the war, just that they won. Why even mention this? Again, a plot line that goes nowhere.
Mike Myers didn't do a bad job - none of the actors did - they just had nothing to work with. This movie just seemed to be trying to ride the coattails of other recent Irish movies that do have good storylines. It was a waste of almost two hours.