Ponderous man, Ponderous

Rating: 2/10 (24 March 2014)

If you want to be bored out of your minds, if you want to watch a bunch of kid actors with all the skill and aplomb of a fifth grade rendition of Macbeth i suggest you find that fifth grade rendition of Macbeth rather then watch this colossal waste of time.
Its suppose to be a homage to Steven Spielberg but it succeeds only in making us appreciate Steven all the more. It has none of Stevens movie sense and seems to have been directed by a bunch of high school film geeks.
You continue watching it only to see just how bad it can get, its like watching somebody in a hole just keep digging, when you think it can't get anymore ridiculous it does.
There is a reason why the list of movies centered around a pack of twelve years old is slim, its because 12 years olds can't act, and if they can they certainly have no emotional gravitas, so its almost impossible for them to hold a movie together, after a while like all kids they get very annoying-and the thought of 12 year olds being so brave is nonsense . After a while the audience begins to secretly hope that the Creature eats the kids. But we never get that satisfaction -the creature only seems to eat a bunch of old fat white guys.
After not too long you lose all interest in everything happening -its so silly and uninteresting, it makes you hate it in a special way-its the kind of movie you wouldn't watch again if somebody paid you.
I suggest you slap "close encounters of the third kind," in the DVD player, if you want to see some real entertainment.
But this movie may have a good use as an insomnia aide-if you need such a thing.