HomeyTao For having a relatively low budget, the film's style and overall art direction are immensely impressive.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Chantel Contreras It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

mark.waltz As I right this review, the Broadway musical of this classic children's novel from the 1970s opened on Broadway to excellent reviews from the New York Times. Having just seen that a few weeks ago, I Revisited the movie and slowly remember what has Enchanted me when I seen this years ago. Jonathan Jackson, the handsome and innocent-looking Lucky Spencer from "General Hospital", is the innocent young boy who is older than he seems. In the opening scene, he drives up to an old southern mansion on a motorcycle, and the film flashes back many years to when he had first met the heroine (Alexis Biedel) whom he fell in love with."Do not fear death, but only the unloved life." that is the theme for the book, two movies and the new Broadway musical. It occurs in the woods in the back of the Foster mansion in the self, where Jackson's father William Hurt and mother Sissy Spacek make their home, hiding out because they are destined to live forever. Jackson falls in love with Biedel whom his older brother is forced to kidnap when she discovers the secret, and the presence of a mysterious Man in the Yellow Suit Ben Kingsley threatens to destroy their hiding place and reveal the secret, giving the potential of making them into freaks. Moving performances by the entire cast (which includes Amy Irving as the heroine's mother and Victor Garber as her father) make this truly worth watching, as does the very direct way that the screenplay presents the story.I've always been a Sissy Spacek fan, and she is totally lovely as the kindly mother who takes Biedel under her wing as if she were her own daughter. William Hurt, who has played his share of villains and heroes, is wise and humble as Jackson's father who provides the film's moral. Along with Dianne Wiest and Alan Arkin in "Edward Ecissorhands", these two rank as the best surrogate parents in film history. Kingsley makes a great villain, his character amply described in the musical as an "evil banana". While this lacks certain elements from the novel and the musical, it moves briskly and makes its point which I have greatly accepted: a life well lived needs an ending, and hopefully, you go out with applause and thumbs up for a job well done.

jackonlee Whilst the actors can be fully commended for their acting, I was very disappointed with the ending and in my opinion it ruined the whole film for me.The fact that the family that drank from that magic spring could live forever is still not something which is unbelievable to readers/viewers, but the claimed fact (by the novelist) that the family could now be completely 'invincible' and 'immune' to being killed by pistol fire/hanging/lynching or any other form of harm is illusory at best.Yes, if they were wounded by pistol bullets, then it is possible to have the wounds healed by the water from magic spring (along with having the bullet removed) but if the bullet pierced essential body parts such as the head or the heart then it is no longer possible for the person to remain alive for long. Just as in the Lord of the Rings where the Elves are immortal as long as they are not killed by orcs/trolls during battle.Even if such a magic fountain existed in America, does one not think that it would have been discovered and extracted by the 20th or 21st century? Surely the Tucker family would have had hundreds of not thousands of descendants who in turn would continue to live at very long ages and therefore raise awareness in the wider American public of their secret? (Take for example, the story of Li Ching-Yuen who purportedly lived for 256 years of age, married 23 times, had 200 descendants, his centenary and bi-centenary were both celebrated by the local authorities whilst he was still alive and then he died in 1933).Lastly, the female main character's choice at the end of the film to not choose to drink from the magic spring thinking that life would be 'boring' and 'meaningless' if they remained alive forever and she'd rather die after living a 'full life', than be immortal and forever stuck watching life pass her by. It gravely encourages Epicurean philosophical thinking which encourages people to "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die".Such a way of thinking is greatly flawed and assumes that one is better off being dead after living a 'meaningful life' than remaining alive forever. For those who are christians would recall from the Bible that Adam and Eve were not given a finite life by God by default and in fact were entitled to eat from the Tree of Life which would enable them to remain alive forever. It was the rejection of God's commands that lead them to become mortal in the flesh and their subsequent unhappiness, pains, hardships & suffering on earth.There is no evidence to suggest that humans are not capable of enjoying a very happy and content life if granted the opportunity to become immortal (it would in fact be the very opposite unless that person happened to be a criminal in which case it would be better off for that person to live a shorter life). Christians believe that those who are eventually eligible to go to heaven would be immortal there because they would have the opportunity to eat from the Tree of Life in Heaven.Hence the conceptual premises of this film are hugely flawed and would only be suitable for children or young teenagers (many of whom would be heart-broken and/or disappointed by the ending of this purely fictional story)

ryanshepard92 This movie is absolutely terrible. One of the worst I've ever seen. I honestly don't understand how anyone could possibly like this, but seeing as how so many do, I guess I'll have to explain why.For starters, I am aware that this is based on a book and that the book is probably better. Unfortunately, this movie killed any chances of me reading it. I simply won't be able to. I will just be reminded of this horrific movie.Okay, let's start with the plot. Some guy drinks water out of a random stream that just happens to be located in Middle of Nowhere, USA that makes him immortal. No one else has discovered this stream, no one else bothered to drink it, no animals are now immortal because they drank out of it. No. Out of thousands and thousands of years of this stream's lifetime, absolutely no living thing has bothered to take a swig out of it except for some random family from the 1800's. Anyways, Winnie, 15, ends up being kidnapped and develops Stockholm's Syndrome and falls in love with Jesse, 104, the stereotypical Hollywood bad boy that girls just gush their panties for. There is absolutely nothing creepy about a 104-year-old dating a 15-year-old. Nothing. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Despite the fact that this guy has probably gotten laid so many times he's sick of it, he also develops the hots for a girl who's 89 years his junior. Then comes the terrible part. The "love" scenes. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! NO! GOD, SPARE ME! This is the worst dialogue I've ever seen. Ever! And this is coming from someone who's seen Teen Witch, Twilight, Disney Channel, AND the Barbie movies. (please don't ask why) It's just indescribably awful. What on earth was the director thinking? Here are some of the many gems from the movie:"Spend forever with me, Winnie?" "How am I supposed to take you home when I can't make my feet move from this spot? If I could die tomorrow I would, just so I could spend one more night with you.""Winnie: Jesse, don't let go! Jesse: It's OK, it's OK. There's no chance of that, Winnie Foster. I'll never let you go."Somebody kill me! Girls, THIS is why men HATE romance movies! It's not because we aren't romantic, it's not because there's no boobs or explosions, it's not because you have a thing for Edward Cullen, IT'S BECAUSE THEY SUCK! ALL OF THEM! The bland, uninspired plot, the atrocious, ear-bleed-inducing dialogue, the woeful boredom of scene after endless scene filled with absolutely nothing but the characters professing their undying love for each other, even though they just met each other 2 hours ago! Do you now understand? Romance movies are to us, what porn is to you. You don't understand why we like porn, and we don't understand for the life of us how anyone could possibly enjoy romance movies. There's no point in either side trying to reason with each other on this, as we have tried and failed for many years. So let's just agree to strongly disagree. Anyways, back to the plot.Apparently there's something bad about the Tucks' secret being found out. If it's ever discovered that they're immortal, some crazy maniac bent on world domination could find out, and try to kill them so...oh, wait? Seriously, why is this a big secret? Their lives are in no danger! THEY ARE IMMORTAL! So, why are they treating this like it's some big secret? For that matter, why don't they just tell everyone? I'm sure a lot of people would love to be immortal, and all they have to do is drink water from a random stream. Anyways, the Tucks leave forever and Winnie gets over herself and lives to be 100. Apparently, the Tucks could never come back to visit in all of those years. I guess their lives must have been in danger or...oh, wait?Anyways, that about sums it up. The one saving grace is that the movie is relatively short. But those 96 minutes were some of the most excruciating minutes of my life. Minutes that made me want to gouge my eyes out, kill a puppy, and listen to the pleasurable sound of nails on a chalkboard. This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, if not THE worst.

yuwei-lin This is (again) a remake of an "old" film in 1981. The film quite successfully delivers the peace and tranquility that only exist in eternity. The tune from the musical box plays a vital role of linking the whole film. Beautiful cinematography, simple but solid storyline with philosophical narratives about life and death (e.g. Angus Tuck: "Don't be afraid of death, Winnie. Be afraid of the unlived life").However, some shoots are inconsistent. One apparent goof is when the Tuck brothers went to the police station to save their parents. Firstly Jesse Tuck was shown standing on the left hand side of Miles Tuck, but when the police came out of the station and shot them, the revived Jesse Tuck was found on the right hand side of Miles Tuck.