Disney's The Kid | | Cast : | Bruce Willis | | Director : | Jon Turteltaub | | Studio : | Disney Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | July 07, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | May 31, 2005 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | February 09, 2005 | | Summary | Great family movie zero profanity | Content
 | This is a great movie. You can read about in the other reviews. The point of this review is to tell you that as a family movie. It has zero profanity. I remember watching it and thinking. It's been like 30 minutes, and I haven't heard one swear it was amazing.
All in all a good movie. Well rounded you come to like the characters it's funny also!
Have some fun and get it done |
| Rating | | | Date | December 17, 2004 | | Summary | Audrey Wells Writing Gives Strong Foundation..... | Content
| I decided to revisit this movie after I learned it was written by Audrey Wells, who also wrote (and directed) "Under the Tuscan Sun".... I decided - "I want to watch as much of her stuff as possible" - mostly because I trusted to be delighted....especially given my faint recollection of this Bruce Willis-coming-to-much-better-adulthood (really a coming of age in a way beyond the usual-bursting into adulthood chronologically).
Bruce Willis grasps his character, Russ Duritz, very well - he is splendidly uptight and horribly candid, though you know he must have some sort of heart beating way deep inside from the people he attracts to him. We learn there is some sort of bad-history with his father from an early scene, we are not sure what is up with that, and we also learn Russ knows how to surround himself with remarkable women.
He even manages to attract a newly hired Los Angeles anchorwoman neatly played by Jean Smart as his seatmate in an airplane. (He dryly states he won't consider the cosmic influences that brought them together, yet later he seeks Smart's character out for advice when he finally gets that he is actually NOT in control of the universe.)
Spencer Breslin is everywhere these days, but his face was fresh and new when this movie was made. He played the mini-Russ role believably. I wanted to climb through the TV several times to give him a cuddle. Thankfully, the adult Russ' love interest, Amy, filled in for me in my absence. *Smile*
Woven into the movie are many brilliant messages - they don't clunk the viewer over the head like a sermon and yet for the alert, open viewer - they come through loud and clear. Audrey Wells writing was crisp, laugh out loud funny yet also circled around for many deep moments in the truth-filled messages sprinkled throughout.
When you watch the DVD - watch the Moon Scenes - they were classic, although at first shot you might not think a thing about them. My daughter was delighted in the end, when there was a mini-Science fact as well.
This multi-layered, textured movie is one that deserves multiple viewing. Enjoy!
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| Rating | | | Date | August 15, 2004 | | Summary | The Truth | Content
| This film is what 'therapy' is all about. I believe in it (the movie) as it clearly showed what REAL therapy, by a GOOD therapist can do for us. Every one of us has been 'damaged' to varying degrees, and this movie makes it clear that many of our "adult" behaviors (especially the inappropriate ones) come from our childhood. That is the truth and nothing but the truth!! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 23, 2004 | | Summary | Awesome Movie! Good Fun! | Content
| I have read a few of the negative reviews of this movie and cannot understand how someone could not enjoy this fantastic movie.
When Russ Duritz (Willis) receives a visitor at his well-to-do estate, he thinks it is a burglar. But it turns out to be an eight-year-old boy named Rusty (Spencer Breslin) who, somehow, some way, is Duritz. Duritz has spent his whole life rejecting his childhood and teaching others how to be something they?re not ? you guessed it, he?s an image consultant. And that?s the part I liked best about this movie; Willis makes the script work so very well. I truly, honestly believe no one could have nailed this role the way Willis did ? he convinced me that if he were to leave acting and become a real life image consultant, he would be the best in the business.
Continuing on, Duritz is determined to make the whining snot-nosed kid (himself a few sizes smaller) go away. But when it becomes obvious that?s not going to happen, Russ is left with no choice but to hang with the kid until he can figure out why this strange and impossible event is occurring. It is a wild ride when the two just-a-like-but-completely-opposite duo hang out.
There are a lot of fun twist and turns in this movie.
I believe the cinematography in this movie is also top-notch.
I say ignore the bad reviews. Trust my review and purchase this great DVD!
See ya next review.
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| Rating | | | Date | February 20, 2004 | | Summary | Sorry but I can't agree | Content
| This story has been done dozens of times over the centuries -- the hardened, cynical adult looks back over their life and has an epiphany. Stories like this and Dicken's "Christmas Carol" seem to me to drag the audience through a lot only to get them to an ending which we all know -- bad guy turns good. I much prefer the twist versions of the story, like "Harold and Maude" and "It's A Wonderful Life", wherein the protagonist is a more likeable character who comes to see how much they are liked and valued by others in the world. Saw this on a plane and I'm sure that hurt it a little but honestly I hated this movie. |
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