Review: this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: cast in impossibly contrived situations 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel 
Sentiment: negative

Review: hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script ... that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire 
Sentiment: negative


Review: schumacher does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the hopkins/rock collision of acting styles and onscreen personas