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Love_Spoon [ 7.0 ]
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The Kid was better than I expected it to be. I thought the boy was going to completely irritate me (like in Problem Child or something...) but he turned out to be pretty human and pretty likeable. Now I understand that this movie isn't supposed to be a documentary on reality, but I thought Russ (Bruce Willis) changed a bit to quickly and drastically to be believable. I also understand that almost everyone falls into this trap, but I thought that the movie went from comedy to tearjerker to uplifting message a bit too sharply. I think the performances were very good, especially that of Spencer Breslin as Rusty (except when he was supposed to be crying-- then he wasn't believable at all, etc.). I also think that Disney wasn't quite sure who their audience would be for this one, because it's a bit too cutesy for adults and not quite exciting enough for kids. We were in the theater with several parents, who each brought several [bored] kids. It wasn't until about 30 minutes into it, when Little Rusty made his appearance, that the kids started getting interested. Funny entertainment and wholesome to a fault (only 1 or 2 swears), but generally, it just suffers from a lack of direction.
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DeadCanadian [ 8.0 ]
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"Disney's The Kid" is a surprisingly good movie. I went to it expecting a dumb, too-cute kid's movie, but, fortunately for me, it stayed mostly away from that. For the majority of the film, it's a great comedy. At the end, it inexplicably turns into a tear jerker, but I'm willing to forget about that and give the rest of it credit. Bruce Willis, in case you haven't realized it, is actually quite good at comedy, and not only action movies. Lily Tomlin is funny as his sarcastic secretary. Emily Mortimer plays Willis' assistant and psuedo-romantic interest (I wasn't quite certain on that point) and is very attractive, despite the fact that nobody has ever heard of her and she's been in no movies worth speaking of (and only small roles in those not-worth-speaking-of movies). Spencer Breslin, as the mysterious Young-Bruce-Willis is relatively good for a child actor (although he bears almost no resemblance to Willis, besides hair color). As I've said already, a suprisingly good movie.
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chapter11 [ 4.0 ]
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John Turteltaub's cutesy, sub-Capra "The Kid" takes an intriguing package-- Bruce Willis plays a miser who meets his fourth-grade self-- and goes nowhere with it. Here, Willis ably demonstrates his comic chops, but part of the problem is that it seems like just that-- another opportunity for Willis to step out of his action-hero box and forge a reputation as a versatile actor. He's already done this, with "The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable" and "Nobody's Fool" and the like; "The Kid" just seems like another shot to make Willis accessible to youngsters while cashing in simultaneously. Spencer Breslin's just another kid in line to help broaden Willis' appeal. He gets lumped in with Haley Joel Osment from "Sixth Sense" and Miko Hughes from "Mercury Rising"; in this category, only Spencer Treat Clark in "Unbreakable" turned in an above-average performance, but that's neither here nor there. "The Kid" is cute, and has its chuckles here and there, but turns into a wishy-washy melodrama. Willis, while funny, is unbelievable, and his transformation from Scrooge to Mother Teresa in the course of, oh, a half-hour tops, just doesn't feel genuine. Bland.
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| Weighted Rating | : 6.2 |
| No. Ratings | : 7 | |
| No. Reviews | : 5 | |
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