Great acting swimming against the current of a fairy story

Rating: 3/10 (28 September 1998)

Robin Williams should have been the centre of this movie as he struggled to swim upstream against the tide of an emotionally and morally immature story.
I am really not sure how this movie can be so popular: it is a fairy story about growing up which isn't grown up at all: at every opportunity for deep and revealing conflict at the emotional and intellectual level, the script ducks. Thank God Williams and the others strain to keep their heads above the water.
Maybe as a modern fairy story this succeeds for the very same reason other fairy stories are successful. They offer not a view of life, love and growth but an escape from the same struggles we all face.
Yep, this movie ends with the hero driving into the sunset.
Wouldn't y'know.