Tediously self-indulgent

Rating: 2/10 (15 March 2009)

Why on earth do they inflict these terribly long films on us? It is pure self-indulgence and, though this film was nothing like as bad as that awful 'Titainic' film, it suffered horribly from bloat. They could easily have cut two hours out of the film and have been left with a reasonably good one.
The first hour wasn't bad. Actually there were some interesting episodes. The novelty of the age thing was played fairly well - by the middle of the film, in his forties, it was sagging badly, no longer novel and not really working.
They should have had more actors. The makeup wasn't bad, it's true, but trying to make people in their forties look as if they are in their twenties simply doesn't work, even though it was clear that they'd tried very hard with their photoshop style special effects.
I was dragged to this by my wife - I'd recommend resisting it if yours tries this! It really is far, far too slight a plot with actors too insubstantial to carry all that time.
Voice overs are lazy - with a very short film you can understand that they are there to overcome the time limitation with this long tedious film there was no such excuse.