How about that...a film aimed at the under 12 crowd doesn't quite cut it in your books because its puerile. That's like not liking Star Wars because it was too science-fictiony and special-effectsy.
I can see why the film gets the ratings it does...essentially it is going to reflect a percentage of population that liked it, about 41 percent. Which makes sense since the preponderance of posters to IMDB are adults and a film like Curly Sue may come across as too kiddified, saccharine, poorly paced, etc. Plop a little girl in front of this and she gives it a 9, would have been a 10 but there were no ponies.
I get the impression that you don't like the precocious children in the films you mentioned because you just don't like kids. Why are you commenting on a film that contains a kid and meant for kids then?
Weird.
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jkaapa
16 years ago
Me and my kids have been watching John Hughes films all week and we ended Our "festival" with this one and we just loved it. Maybe it helps if you are familiar with the Hughes style, all his films are a step out of reality, like fairy tales. You are not supposed to think "is that possible" you should just go with the flow of it.
My favorite moment was when the lawyer woman winked into the camera for a brief second. It was like a nod to the fans.
Had I watched it alone I may not have liked it as much, but since the kids enjoyed it so much I ended up having quite a good time, giving it an 8/10.
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