Imagine "Big Fish" but for your 12 year old.

Rating: 7/10 (17 April 2019)

It's easy to fall in love with this meandering tale of enduring love and unintentional success at the expense of the differently-abled.
By all accounts a very sugary movie that is more than a little smug about itself with its often heavy handed approach to serious things in an attempt to prove it is a grown ups movie.
Most enjoyable when we just get to watch forest miraculously become someone. The romance is horrible because she is horrible. He loves her because he is psychologically disabled and the movie doesn't play this as the dark comedy it should but actually wants me to feel for them.
I can't dislike this for the most part, it's just too whimsical, but "Big Fish" is most certainly the same basic thing done better since it actually has the cynicism to pull this off without annoying me.