Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Wordiezett So much average

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

TonyMontana96 (Originally reviewed: Late December 2016) Forever Young is well acted, well directed and suitable entertainment for people of all ages despite a few holes in the first half of the picture. I will go into detail on that in a minute, but first let's discuss the positives; Gibson is as terrific as usual and is also given a solid supporting cast that includes a young Elijah Wood who has a lot of energy and Jamie Lee Curtis who has some real good scenes with Gibson. I also admired the production design, the romance between Gibson and Isabel Glasser and a lot of the sweet comedic moments including when Gibson suggest to the young Elijah Wood that he should try singing to the girl he likes, so he climbs a tree and gets her attention, this is well executed and overall the comedic tone of the picture is there for all ages.Though I praised the humor, there are a few things I didn't like in the first 20 minutes of the picture, such as a young toddler staring at Gibson which was meant to somehow be funny but comes off as creepy, as well as Wood's Friend's older brother saying he is going to put a poisonous snake in his brothers bed while he sleeps. This I find unnecessary and not in the least bit amusing. A few other problems I had with the picture were there was no mention of what city they were in and I highly doubt the cryogenics tube would be right under the military's noses for 53 years with no one discovering it, however despite these errors I enjoyed the picture and would easily recommend it.

slightlymad22 After being reminded how good an actor Mel Gibson can be in Expendables 3, I have decided to revisit some of his earlier work. Today I decided to go with 1992's "Forever Young". A movie that seems to have been forgotten over time. Plot In A Paragraph: It's 1939 and test pilot Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson) asks his best friend Harry (George Wendt) to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. He wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch the love of his life, Helen lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.This was made around the time when Mel Gibson was more know. For being Mad Max and madder Martin Riggs in the "Lethal Weapon" movies. This was probably attempt to break away from that type of image. Here he makes a charming and likable romantic lead in a sweet little movie. The always fun to watch George Wendt, and Jamie Lee Curtis offer solid support. But Elijah Wood is the real star amongst the supporting cast. He shoes the early promise that would lead him to a successful career as an adult. I should also mention Jerry Goldsmiths score is beautiful.It's a pity Gibson didn't try more of these movies, as he truly is engaging. One can't help but wonder what other wonderful films we may have missed out onGibson is truly a great actor, and hopefully he can sort his personal problems and demons out, because as we all know Hollywood loves comebacks.

Jackson Booth-Millard I knew the leading actor and actress, and later the young supporting star, and I had heard about some bits and pieces about the concept, so I was keen to watch it, from director Steve Miner (Friday the 13th Part 2, Friday the 13th Part III, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Lake Placid). Basically, in 1939, reckless test pilot Capt. Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson) loves his girlfriend Helen (Isabel Glasser) very much and is keen to propose marriage to her, but he cannot pluck up the courage, and then to his shock she is hit by a car. She is put into hospital suffering a coma that doctors say she will not wake up from, so with the success of his friend's experiment, Daniel asks Harry Finley (George Wendt) to cryogenically freeze him in a capsule for one year so he does not have to watch her die. Fifty five years pass, young boys Nat Cooper (young Elijah Wood) and his friend Felix (Robert Hy Gorman) are playing in an abandoned military storage warehouse, and they stumble on the cryogenic chamber, they (and others) assume it is a water heater, but fiddling with it they activate the reversal process. Daniel finds out he has woken up in the year 1992, and after taking some clothes he approaches the military to tell his story, but they assume he is crazy, so he walks away and decides to find out what is going on himself. He stole Nat's jacket, so he tracks the boys down in their tree house, they settle after initial terror, and they help him understand more about the future world he is now in, and he meanwhile plans to find out what has happened to Harry and Helen. The bond between Daniel and Nat is made even stronger when he introduces himself to Nat's single mother Claire (Jamie Lee Curtis) who offers him the couch to sleep on and stay in the house, after saving her an abusive ex-boyfriend. As he continues his search for Harry it is obvious that Daniel is suffering the effects of the status of years he has been living in suspended animation, so he body is starting to age. Claire finds out the situation he is in after he has an "attack" and is taken to hospital, and she receives a phone call from a woman claiming to know Harry Finley, it is his daughter Susan (Millie Slavin), but her father is dead. She gives Daniel information about the freezing process, and unfortunately the ageing process is irreversible, but she shocks with the revelation that Helen is alive, after recovering from the coma. The government, and particularly Cameron (Terminator 2: Judgement Day's Joe Morton) are after the man from the past, but Claire gives them the documentation about the freezing experiment, Project B, so no-one is arrested. Daniel with his time running out in the dramatic ageing races to the house that Helen is meant to be living, and Nat is a stowaway as he helps him, in the end his ageing does stop, and Daniel is overjoyed to see Helen and finally ask him to marry her, she accepts. Also starring Nicolas Surovy as John and David Marshall Grant as Lt. Col. Wilcox USAF. Gibson is charming as the man from the past who will do anything to be with his love, Curtis is nice as the single mother who he likes and she admires, and young Wood proves himself a great early talent. It is a really sweet story, you really root for Gibson as he tries to find the information he wants and ultimately reunite with his true love, the past meets present (future) concept makes for some fun moments of humour and interest, I think this is a very worthwhile romantic fantasy. Good!

James Hitchcock "Forever Young" opens in the year 1939. Daniel McCormick, a test pilot with the US Army Air Force, sees his girlfriend Helen seriously injured in a road accident which leaves her in a coma. Helen is not expected to recover, and the grief-stricken Daniel volunteers to take part in a secret cryonic freezing experiment being carried out by his close friend, Harry Finley. Daniel hopes that he can be put in suspended animation for a year, so that he doesn't have to watch Helen die. Unfortunately, Harry dies shortly afterwards, and in the chaos following the outbreak of World War II the experiment is forgotten. Daniel remains asleep in his chamber, abandoned in a military warehouse for the next fifty-three years.Finally, Daniel is awoken from his long sleep by two young boys who stumble on the chamber while playing inside the warehouse. Upon waking, he is horrified to discover that it is not, as he had thought, 1940, but 1992. Harry, and nearly everyone else he once knew, are long dead. The Army have never heard of him, and when he tries to convince them of the truth of his experiences, they dismiss him as a lunatic. Eventually he befriends Nat, one of the two boys who opened the chamber, and his divorced mother Claire.There are, of course, a number of plot holes in the film. It seems highly unlikely that only Finley would have known about so major a scientific experiment and that after his death everyone else would simply have forgotten about it. It seems equally unlikely that after being forgotten and abandoned the chamber would have continued to function so perfectly that Daniel could have survived inside for over fifty years. Yet these plot holes do not really matter precisely because the film is not intended to be scientifically plausible. Any film which attributes to the scientists of the 1930s the ability to perform technological feats which would still be beyond our capabilities today is obviously not aiming at realism.The film could have been made as a satire revolving around the differences between the world of the thirties and that of the nineties, with lots of comic misunderstandings based upon the cultural differences between the two eras. It could also have been made as a serious piece of science-fiction, but in fact it is more a fantasy. (There are some similarities with "Somewhere in Time", although in that film the hero travels back in time, not forward). There are certain parallels drawn between the world of the thirties and that of the nineties, generally to the detriment of the latter. Claire is attracted to Daniel because his old-fashioned values make him seem much more gentlemanly and chivalrous than the men of her own era. Mel Gibson is good at bringing out this side of Daniel's character.Just when the film seems to be developing into a romantic comedy which will end with Daniel and Claire falling for one another, and then changes direction with the sudden revelation that Helen did not die in 1939 but is still alive. This sudden shift of emphasis struck me as being the film's greatest weakness; the romantic ending is well done, but is seemed like something added on from a different film. I would not rate "Forever Young" as highly as "Somewhere in Time"; it lacks that film's visual beauty and, except at the very end, its dreamlike romantic atmosphere. Also, Jamie Lee Curtis is not as engaging a heroine as Jane Seymour. Gibson, however, makes a charismatic hero, and overall the film is a watchable romantic fantasy. 6/10