Surfer Girl
11-22-2003, 10:56 PM
rated: General.
This movie is a feast for the eyes. The town, the house where Sally and Conrad live, and even the kids and their mom are exactly what one pictures when reading the Dr. Suess book.
That's about as much good as I can say about this movie.
It keeps to the plot loosely but elaborates needlessly. It is filled with sleazy jokes and adult humor and actual meaness. Almost sinister. I was surprised by that.
Mike Myers does a good job but seems to recycle every voice he has ever done all in the same hour. And I love him, he's Canadian, eh? I didn't love him in this.
It really is a movie for grownup Suess fans who have sick senses of humors. I hate to say it. My kids (ages 2.5 and 4) sat still and watched but it went waaayyy over their heads. I thought it would be simpler, basic, much like the book. No way. This is raunchy and a little violent too-they hang the babysitter on a hook in the closet, fling her all over and even ride her down a waterslide. My preschooler was upset by that later in the day.
My kids have been to see all kinds of movies, adult ones too and this just was not fun for them. I like a good laugh and sick jokes more than most people but this movie needed to be marketed to grownups, not little kids.
All in all, a must miss, I'm afraid.
This movie is a feast for the eyes. The town, the house where Sally and Conrad live, and even the kids and their mom are exactly what one pictures when reading the Dr. Suess book.
That's about as much good as I can say about this movie.
It keeps to the plot loosely but elaborates needlessly. It is filled with sleazy jokes and adult humor and actual meaness. Almost sinister. I was surprised by that.
Mike Myers does a good job but seems to recycle every voice he has ever done all in the same hour. And I love him, he's Canadian, eh? I didn't love him in this.
It really is a movie for grownup Suess fans who have sick senses of humors. I hate to say it. My kids (ages 2.5 and 4) sat still and watched but it went waaayyy over their heads. I thought it would be simpler, basic, much like the book. No way. This is raunchy and a little violent too-they hang the babysitter on a hook in the closet, fling her all over and even ride her down a waterslide. My preschooler was upset by that later in the day.
My kids have been to see all kinds of movies, adult ones too and this just was not fun for them. I like a good laugh and sick jokes more than most people but this movie needed to be marketed to grownups, not little kids.
All in all, a must miss, I'm afraid.