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Anton H I think about this movie a lot. What in the world was Rob Reiner thinking? It actually *may* have worked, provided it was a different kind of movie. If the offensive material actually went much further, with emphasis on the fact that a child’s imagination can lead to troublesome assumptions of other cultures, this could have been a clever dark comedy, aimed at adults. As a kid’s movie, though… ugh. Terrible stuff that gives kids a lot of bad ideas. Shameful movie. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 11/19/24 Full Review Christopher J this movie isnt funny at all what a waste of time Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/04/24 Full Review Red B Kids deserve better....The acting, editing, cinematography is all horrifcally bad. The jokes are terribly unfunny. There worse than Dad Jokes. It's clear this is mean for families/kids but holy cow I mean so is The Lion King & Home Alone....how in the world this got the green light even with the director behind it is beyond me. When North goes on his journey I am not kidding when I say it truly feels like stuff just happens and there really isn't any meaningful story. He just visits families for gags. It also makes no sense why he finds the perfect family and "Something isn't right" it's such lazy writing. The villian is so stupid and unfunny as well. Bruce Willis feels like he is just here for the paycheck and isn't trying and at the same time is miscast. His narration feels completely unneeded. The African Joke is so cringe as well. This just leads constantly to random stupid stuff scene to scene with no set up or flow. It's all just random humor with a light hearted kid touch to it. The music is the best thing and even that is just average. Stay away from this at all cost. You can't just make unfunny terribly written garbage and hide it under the guise of a "It's for Kids". This is the Poster Child for that. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/03/23 Full Review Ola G Skilled in academics, sports, and drama, and praised for his good work and obedience, North (Elijah Wood) feels unvalued by his own parents. One day, while finding solace in a living room display at a mall, he complains to the Easter Bunny—a man in a pink bunny suit—who recommends that North simply explain his feelings to them, but North says their neglect makes them undeserving. Aided and encouraged by his best friend Winchell, who works on the school paper, North plots to "divorce" his parents, hiring ambulance-chasing lawyer Arthur Belt to file the papers. The announcement greatly shocks his parents, leaving them unresponsive when Judge Buckle grants his petition, giving him one summer to find new parents or go to an orphanage... North has been called one of the worst films ever made. Rotten Tomatoes consensus reads, "Laden with schmaltz and largely bereft of evident narrative purpose, North represents an early major disappointment from previously sure-handed director Rob Reiner." Kenneth Turan stated in his review "The problem overall is not so much that the humor, especially in the parent-tryout situations, is forced, but that it simply is not there at all. So little is going on in this mildest of fantasies that it is hard to even guess what kinds of emotional effects were aimed at in the first place." Turan also asked "How could director Rob Reiner, whose touch for what pleases a mass audience is usually unfailing, have strayed this far?" Leonard Klady of Variety described the film as a "noble misfire" and "that unique breed of misconceived entertainment that only a filmmaker of talent is capable of making." Joe Brown of The Washington Post called the film "a gentle, harmless and rather pedestrian fantasy." Janet Maslin of The New York Times was somewhat more positive, writing that the film "doesn't always work, but much of it is clever in amusingly unpredictable ways." Roger Ebert's review of North was this: "I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it." (Via Wikipedia) "North" is based on the 1984 novel "North: The Tale of a 9-Year-Old Boy Who Becomes a Free Agent and Travels the World in Search of the Perfect Parents" by Alan Zweibel, who wrote the screenplay and has a minor role in the film. Along the lines of Roger Ebert, I say that "North" is awful, awful, awful and just awful. What a piece of jibberish that makes you queasy within. The plot itself is just beoynd silly with an Elijah Wood looking like a dear in headlights while the stupidity just continues througout the running time. Awful, awful, awful... Trivia: North was heavily panned by critics, and has been referred to as one of the worst films of all time. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/10/23 Full Review Mekhi W An interesting concept on paper. However, it is butchered with not a single funny joke to be found, shockingly bad stereotypes, terrible writing, and an ending cliche that acts as a straw on the camel's back. Avoid this one at all costs. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/25/24 Full Review TWMax65 This is basically a cheap remake of the Wizard of Oz (a young character wishing for a better life somewhere else, dream sequence reveal cliche of it all not being real, and even repeating the line "There's no place like home" toward the end). This was meant for kids I guess? However they would've had a hard time understanding a lot of the material. If this was meant for adults, they would've cringed so many times! Now, only a few times I laughed, a few of the casting choices were good, the overall message may have been a moral one, and Elijah Wood has always had a natural talent for acting. Other than that this movie has nothing that really worked or made it less ridiculous! The only reason I checked this out was to see why Roger Ebert "HATED HATED HATED this movie!!" so much! Now I kind of see why. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/27/22 Full Review Read all reviews

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