I wish my secret life was like this...

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2014)

This movie suffers from an unfortunate but inevitable side-effect of it's title. In these days of infarction-inducing, billion-dollar epics... if the title doesn't have some kind of hook to get viewers interested, most of us are just too busy watching other movies with what little time we do have to give this movie a second look. Only after all others have been seen (or by some happy and serendipitous accident) does this movie get the nod from most movie goers: "Let's rent this one, we've seen all these other ones." This is unfortunate because it is a visual, visceral, and inspirational movie experience. We absolutely loved it. I have 4 smaller children and even they "stayed tuned" throughout the entire flick. This movie is great for smaller-than-teen but bigger-than-baby age groups, by the way. It was inspiring for me and I'm almost too old to dream :) We actually discussed this film after watching it with them because they had so many questions: "Is there really a place in Iceland or Greenland or wherever that has only 8 people living there Dad?", and "I want a skateboard like that Dad. Its faster than the one I have." The only reason I gave it an 8 instead of the 10 it probably deserves is because the 10's must mean something and if you hand them out willy-nilly, they won't. This movie deserves an 8.5-9.5 for global visuals alone. Let's not forget the really funny parts we've come to expect from Scott and Stiller. There is no shortage of that in this film. Thanks for reading.