For five-year-olds only . . . and gullible ones at that

Rating: 1/10 (22 March 2016)

An endlessly saccharine tear-jerker very cynically (in my opinion) designed to sell candy and pajamas and coloring books and what-have-you. Other one-star reviewers have pretty much summed up what this film represents. I agree with their comments. Seriously, I can tolerate and even luxuriate in sentimentality if it serves a legitimate artistic purpose. At least "Madama Butterfly" (as just one example) manages to marry the flowing tears with wonderful music. Or, if you want to stick with movies, how about "On Borrowed Time," the 1939 cinematic masterpiece that just happened to star the great uncle of "E.T."'s own cutesy version of a Barrymore.