No surprise here

Rating: 5/10 (2 August 2015)

This movie is over-rated: its too family-love-ish for people like me from messed-up families, and gets all yukky-soppy at too many points. Probably a great movie for middle-class kids on the verge of adolescence who have just moved somewhere new, otherwise I can't see how this would appeal to many other types of people (unless they are parents watching with their kids). But what spoilt it most of all for me is that there was no surprise - literally. The six basic emotions in psychology include surprise as well as the five represented here (happiness/joy, sadness, anger, fear and disgust). Without surprise, the poor girl in the movie can never be amazed, and will probably find it hard to 'get' most jokes if she can't feel surprised. Major plot-hole.