Best watched with a box of chocolates.

Rating: 10/10 (19 June 2005)

Forrest Gump is my all time favourite movie (shared with Pulp Fiction!). And I'm not American. I don't know what the movie is trying to achieve, and I don't really care. All I know is that it touches every part of me. It's the perfect entertainment. If you ever feel depressed or life is getting the better of you, watch this movie. For all its pathos and sadness its the most emotionally uplifting, good-natured movie ever made. And it achieves all this without an ounce of schmaltz. It is a movie full of humour, profound wisdom and many magical and memorable scenes. I love it. And unlike many it only gets better the more times you watch it.
There are some people here trying to load political baggage onto this movie. I just can't agree. Every institution, belief and value system is treated with exactly the same irreverence. While the world revolves violently and tumultuously around Forrest Gump, he takes it all in his stride with the simple application of his steadfast sense of decency and love. If the movie tells us anything, it tells us that if we could all act a little more like Forrest Gump and a little less like we know it all, the world would be a far better place.