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Summary: Bruce Willis at his best!
Review: This movie is a mixture of adventure,fun and to achieve ones wishes.If you have a dream you've got to fulfill it.Bruce Willis
acts in his best movie yet!It's a HOLLY SMOKES of a movie.If you've never seen Titanic and you've got it and this movie,you should definetly see this first!
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Summary: Good movie
Review: The only thing stoping me from ginin' it 5 stars is it was kinda weird. Not that I don't like weird movies its jussssssst.
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Summary: What a healthy relationship with oneself should look like.
Review: How well thought out was this movie? It definitely has something to teach at many levels! For instance, there are the obvious lessons to be drawn from the fact that Russ has become alienated from what he expected from himself when he was a kid, but that is only the beginning (and plenty has been said in other reviews). Now this may not mean a whole lot to most people, but there are spiritual traditions out there who divide the self into three parts (yep, as many as the Russ's in the movie):
*Basic self (lower self, inner child, subconscious),
*Conscious self (your personality, ego), and
*Higher Self (the unconscious, the Holy Guardian Angel, the Superego). True change can only be achieved when these parts agree..."Man, when do we stop blowing it? We've gotta change..." Each part can be understood by analogy through the three different ages Russ has in the movie. Think of it this way:
*The subconscious is the emotional part of yourself, the part that doesn't really think but is all about feeling, the part that enjoys games, dancing, and having fun.
*The personality or conscious self is the part that "thinks"....which, if alienated, from the basic self it becomes cynical, like Russ did. Also very much like Russ, it tries to get the basic self "into shape", and tries to make it fit specific roles which may or may not be of real help. This could mean self-alientation if one doesn't know what role the inner child (subconscious) must play in our lives.
*As to the Higher self, it pretty much knows that things will turn out fine, which has an analogy in the wisdom/hindsight the Old Russ represented in the movie. "Trust your unconscious," we've been told. Holy smokes! How cool is that? My favorite part is when Russ and Rusty hug after the difficult experience the kid has with his father. Now, the odds are against anyone of us running into our 8-year old self in the flesh (I like to keep an open mind just in case), but if you're familiar with Shadow Work, you know you can just imagine your younger self and have a dialog with it. All you have to do is close your eyes, picture him and hear him out. The resulting dialogue with yourself can prove to be a healing experience. There are different types of Self-help, those that help cosmetically (looking good in the eyes of others, "getting into shape" in the Russ-Rusty style) and the types that promote deep change (looking good in your own eyes in the Rusty-Old Russ style). The Ultimate commandment is "Know Thyself", and there are many tools to choose from to achieve it. This movie does a *great* job of illustrating what the outcome can be like. This is a really fun movie with a hell of a lot you can glean from. I just had to give it 5 stars.
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Summary: Film Review on 'Disney's The Kid"
Review: This is an inspiring story.
Russell is a successful image consultant, live in a big house, and drive an expensive car. In fact he is a balk, no one like him. One day, a little boy call Rusty came into his house. He find out that, this fat and cutie boy who was childhood self of him. But Rusty said he was a loser. It is because Russell is a rich man, though; he didn¡¦t have some really honest, estimable things. Such as friends, family¡KRusty was disappointed that he also isn¡¦t a pilot (the red toy plane told me that) and hasn¡¦t got anything today, even a wife or a dog! These are all Russell dreams when he was a child.
In real life, peoples always have some great dreams when they were young but cannot come true or forgotten eventually. When we becoming an adult, we always accept what the world ethic is, but forgot the baby natural dreams. We need to think over this questionnaire.
Russell goes back to old days cannot change anything. Although he is the winner in a fight, nothing changes around him. Mother still sick on the bed, father also not kind to him, his classmate bit him and he lost again. Things won¡¦t be changed. We haven¡¦t got ability to change the environment. But, the pass still has changes. Change internal in him. He started to accept the unperfected of him. We have no ability to change the others but we have the ability to change ourselves.
Russell and Rusty go through 30 years later at last. They pleased to see that himself in 70 years old had a wife, a family, a dog, and he also a pilot! How can Russell do that? Actually he accepts the pass and shortcoming of him.
I like this movie; it is very funny, lovely and stimulating. It remind me need to always stop and retrace what I have oblivion. The things that are worthy, I feel they are out of my heart, own by myself. This also include myself accept every imperfection, and the imperfection world.
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Summary: Funny!
Review: This movie is funny, including the time when Bruce Willis got punched ... by Spencer Breslin, why that was the most funniest thing i've ever saw, including the part where Rusty (Breslin), asked Emily Mortimer if she can marry him. I give it a ***** (5 out of 5).
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Summary: Holy Smokes! A movie just for me (and maybe you too)!
Review: Somehow Disney managed to take "It's A Wonderful Life" and "A Christmas Carol" and mash the two together. The acting is superb by everyone in the cast, and the characters are very likeable (even when they're acting like a jerk) as well as very interesting. In this movie, 8-year-old Rusty learns that there's more to success than having a lady and a dog named Chester hanging around the house. 40-year-old Rusty learns that his key to happiness is staring him in the face nearly everyday, if only he is willing to look at her the same way she looks at him. They both learn simultaneously that they're worth a heck of a lot more than their self esteem allows. Of course, they probably would not have learned these things had they not learned them from each other, as boy-Rusty and man-Rusty meet up and one gets to know his inner-child while the other gets to know his inner-adult. What's so great about Rusty if he's "girless and dogless" at age 40? Plenty if he can learn to respect himself for what he is instead of what he tries to be; plenty if he learns the value of the people that have been placed in his life; plenty if he learns to love the people around him. This movie is a cinematic slap in the face and wake-up call for people who tend to think "Wow, I'm [insert age]-years-old, and I haven't even [insert self-pity complaint] or I still don't even have a [other self-pity complaint]!" This film helps remind you of the things and people you've been blessed with, and will more than likely make you take a closer look at life. Most of all it's (unashamedly) a great feel-good movie!
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Summary: Do it for your inner child
Review: If you are doing inner child therapy, dont start, until you watch this movie. Probabaly among the best of disney's modern comedies, its ultimately something that is hard not to warm up to. The scenes with Bruce Willis and Spencer Breslin are pure gold. Jon Turtletaub injects something special into this film, which is enhanced by a great score. Unfortunately one feels that the story should have been fleshed out a little more than it was, otherwise it has the makings of a classic favorite.
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Summary: Pleasant, diverting, ultimately forgettable
Review: I like the ideas presented in The Kid [AKA Disney's The Kid]. I just wish that they had been handled with a little more depth. I imagine that 99.9% of us don't wind up in life at the place we dreamed of as a kid. I have a theory that most children instinctively know at a very early age what their purpose in life might be. Because our society is set up in a rather ruthless and mercenary way, most of us get knocked off track. This inability to be what we hoped we might have been can be a source of much unhappiness and frustration. Russ Durwitz [Bruce Willis] has most the things in life that people insist should bring fulfillment. He is his own boss. He makes a lot of money, drives a Porsche, owns an expensive home in a posh neighborhood, and is very attractive to women. As an image consultant, he gets to travel a lot, always in first class. His assistant [Emily Mortimer] is a beautiful and talented young woman who is also in love with him. His secretary [Lili Tomlin] is one of those efficient and unflappable pros who can take care of any situation. Yet something is wrong with Russ. He is moody, sarcastic and rude. He avoids his family like the plague and has blotted out almost all memories of his childhood. No one can get close to him. Russ is a totally frustrated man, although he denies it. One day he comes home to find a young boy [Spencer Breslin] in his house. Outraged, he chases the lad out. But the kid keeps reappearing. Soon, a very confused Russ discovers that the child is himself at age eight. How this happens is never made clear, but the reason he has appeared is to remind Russ what he was like as a child, what his dreams were and what happened to make them disappear. This could have been an engrossing and enlightening tale, but in the hands of director Jon 'Churn 'Em Out' Turteltaub, it winds up as a mere confection, a pleasant enough way to while away a couple of hours. Disney sold this movie as one for children, but its fairly slow pace makes it more suitable for adults, who, in turn, may find it too predictable and sugary. Bruce Willis is very good, but then he always is. Willis has made many movies I do not like, but I've always liked him. As young Russ, Spencer Breslin is less than successful. The producers thought it would be funny if the kid were as loud and pushy as the adult Russ. At first he is funny, but he later becomes irritating. I doubt even someone as talented as Haley Joel Osment could make this child lovable. The Kid is far from the worst movie out these days. It has its moments, especially in the few minutes Lili Tomlin is on screen. It is fun to watch Willis' character trying to cope with his young self. It is a movie with a happy ending. It is also one that is seen and then happily forgotten.
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Summary: Best "Lift Me Up" Movie
Review: If you're down about yourself, or lost hope about your future watch this. First time I saw it in a theater I thought it was cute and touching. Then I got a screener tape to review it. Needless to say that I have watched time and again, with my husband, my daughter and her friends. Bruce Wills is at his meanest, the child (Spencer Breslin) is a show stopper, and the supporting cast is hilarious (Lilly Tomlin included). Deftly written and directed, with a sweet music score, it constitutes a classic for the genre. Whether you're a child or you think you've grown-up, give in and rent this. It's a guilty pleasure.
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Summary: charming Disney film
Review: "The Kid" is an amusing variation on all those body-switch fantasy films such as "Big" and "Like Father, Like Son" which became so popular for a time in the 1980's. In this case, it is Bruce Willis who stars as the grumpy older adult who, through some kind of miraculous intervention, is able to finally come to terms with his inner child - thereby rescuing himself from the emptiness of his emotionally cold, tragically loveless adult life. Russell M. Duritz is a successful image consultant so traumatized by being a picked-upon, bullied "dweeb" in his childhood that he has managed to block out virtually every memory, pleasant or unpleasant, of his scarred boyhood. In his current life, Russell attempts to compensate for all his previous "faults" by becoming a career-driven, hardnosed cynic who is unable to connect with other human beings on anything close to a meaningful level. Then, right on the eve of his epochal 40th birthday, a strange supernatural phenomenon occurs: Russell is suddenly confronted by a mysterious, soon-to-be-8-year-old tyke who, it turns out, is actually Russell himself 32 years earlier. As the relationship between Russell and Rusty deepens, the older Russell learns not only to reconnect with his own past, but to absorb all the lessons little Rusty has to offer - lessons that he, big Russell, in his race to adulthood, managed to forget along the way. "The Kid," despite the fact that it is based essentially on a one-joke premise, manages to remain fresh and entertaining for most of its running time thanks to a clever and witty script by Audrey Wells, breezy direction by Jon Turteltaub and, above all, first class performances by Bruce Willis and Spencer Breslin who, as Russell and Rusty, achieve a winning rapport in their many scenes together. Happily, the filmmakers have, for the most part, resisted the temptation to over dramatize the fantasy elements of the scenario - which could easily have led to a great deal of lowbrow slapstick antics - preferring, instead, to let the scenes between the two main characters play themselves out with a quiet naturalness, thereby allowing us to penetrate to the basic human realities at the core. Although the film does suffer a bit towards the end - becoming a tad more sentimental than is perhaps warranted - one appreciates the fact that the filmmakers have at least attempted to achieve something fairly profound with this lighthearted material. Lily Tomlin, it should be noted, does a superb job as Russell's put-upon and harried assistant, who tries in vain to act as the voice of reason for her self-absorbed, conscienceless boss. "The Kid" is not a "great" comedy and it never really soars like some of the better family films of recent years ("Toy Story 2," "Shrek"), but it does provide plenty of laughs, some stellar performances and even a few insightful observations about human nature along the way. Whether you are a kid or not, you will probably enjoy this charming Disney treat.
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