Drivel

Rating: 2/10 (19 October 2008)

I felt a strong urge to review this film having been intrigued by the trailer, and severely let down by the actual event.
The story itself is kind of cute - a young boy grows up in an orphanage, but knows his parents are still alive, and heads out "following the music" to find them. He decides that if he can just write a piece of music and get it played out, his parents will know how to find him.
Its the following of the music that really lets the film down. For many films you need to suspend your belief, but this one really takes the biscuit. That a young child who's been told all through his life to forget music can see a guitar for the first time and play it is difficult enough to swallow, but even worse are the constantly corny lines.
Its almost as if the scriptwriters have filled a hat with corny phrases, pulled them out in random order, and made a script from it. Even repeating some of their favourites.