"Just as good the fifteenth time as it is the first"

Rating: Null/10 (23 June 2001)

Irony high and irony low.
Low irony: the soporific songs and singing, combined with a schmaltzy storyline, guaranteed failure for every theater release and re-release. "Just as good the fifteenth time as it is the first." Of course, the film has had outstanding success on television. Television success: Bravo!
High irony: the didactic Message that "there's no place like home" takes more time to deliver on the bonus material of the DVD edition than the movie itself. Of course this Message, like all "Messages to wayward children", is beyond any child's care or understanding. This is not a film for children but, rather, a film for the "child inside every one of us." One might as well subject that inside-child to numerous viewings ("Just as good the fifteenth time as it is the first") in a vain attempt to convey the Message. No actual child would willingly submit to such torture.