For kids

Rating: Null/10 (19 June 1999)

Forget everything you've read about this being compelling to all ages. This is first and foremost a movie for kids. To me the movie was quite a disappointment, considering the rating it has been given by the users of IMDb. I found it childish but I can't truthfully say that I was ever really bored. I had expected more laughs, from the man who made the outstanding "This is Spinal Tap" (1984) but had to settle for perhaps about three or four funny moments. (The inconceivable bit actually being very funny.) What bugs me the most is that the movie was aimed (perhaps unintendedly) at children because of the scenes involving the little sick punk Fred Savage and his grandpa Peter Falk (the actual storyteller). The scenes are so awfully disgusting in the "cute" kind of way to anyone above ten.
Keep that in mind.