mklinsao
This was actually the worst movie I've ever seen in my life. I watched it when I was, like, 11, so it's not like I was expecting sophisticated, polished comedy. It was just absolute sh**, and the more I thought about it, the more I hated it. I don't know exactly why, but it made me sick to the stomach, and it had nothing to do with the excessive flatulence. I'm typically a huge fan of really bad comedy (e.g., the Scary Movie franchise) and movies that are so bad, they're good, but this was just sh**. I don't know why the hell an actor like Rupert Grint would decide to do this as a side project between Harry Potter installments, but it kind of pisses me off that he did because his presence was the main reason I wanted to see the movie in the first place. Anyone who gave this film above a three-star rating is dead to me.
mrjlkelly
I am shocked and very disappointed that most of the the world has no sense of humour whatsoever. It's a most pitiful indictment on humanity that a fun, silly little kids movie like this could be scorned by so many and scored so lowly on IMDb. This movie doesn't really deserve a score of 10 but I feel that I need to somehow redress the balance on this film which I have enjoyed many times over.I recall when this film was released that there were a number of good reviews published in various newspapers and it was mainly shown in the more "Arthouse/Independent" cinemas around Sydney. I never got around to seeing it until a few years later when I rented it on video. I loved it, and it was one of those films that I tried to get as many of my friends to check it out as well.This is a film that I would suppose would be most suited to young boys who love a good fart joke, but some of us never grow out of that. The film has an excellent cast, (you'll recognise many of the adults), and the set designs are an absolute blast.One of my favourite kids movies.
WakenPayne
I will be the first to admit that when I was about (damn, I forget the year) 7 or 8 years old I absolutely loved this movie. Now however this movie is terrible.So what is the plot of this movie. Simple, a kid happens to break wind repeatedly for the entire running time. Aside from that everything else from this ability getting him to score the highest note in an opera, leading to him traveling all over the world doing this (I swear I'm not making this up) and him accidentally killing another opera singer, to him being able to fuel a rocket and fulfill his dream of becoming an astronaut (as well as a hovercraft earlier on). I CANNOT BELIEVE I LIKED THIS CRAP.With a premise like that nothing could save this movie. I like family movies (for a fact I'm just starting to) just as long as they're entertaining to an adult mind. This however is only entertaining to little kids that like fart jokes. If you hate fart jokes then you'll find no entertainment value in this whatsoever, if you don't like fart jokes being the only jokes then you'll hate this movie.Now if you'll excuse me, thinking about this movie (and my liking of it) has made me cringe. Now I gotta stay away from all the websites I'm registered on for the entirety of today in shame.
junk-monkey
I cannot understand the bile heaped on this movie. Sure it's not the greatest film ever made - I don't suppose the people who made it would claim it was that - but there is no way that it deserves the bashing it gets here. I'm in my late 40s. My wife and I just watched it with my kids (aged six and four) and a couple of Swiss visitors and we all laughed ourselves silly. It's a funny movie.It's a film for kids - about farting, for God's sake! Everyone farts. I fart. You fart. He, she, or it farts. Kigs, Queens, and Presidents fart. Everyone farts. Farting is THE universal common denominator, it's probably the one thing everyone in the world has in common: we all fart. And we all have dreams. And that's what this film is really about: finding your dream and realising it. From the "We've got a flier!" during the birth sequence at the start of the film, to the shot when Patrick opens the wardrobe in the plane and finds all the stripy T-shirts, to the wonderfully touching moment when Paul Giamatti's CIA man tells the pilot that Patrick is crying, the movie is chock full of wonderful little touches and lines.Maybe that's the problem that people can't get round. Maybe it's too subtle for them; if all they can see is the farting then I can understand why they don't think much of it. Fart jokes, even wonderfully timed ones (and some of the timing in this movie is superb) can't sustain a whole movie. They don't. They're just the hook on which so much more is hung.I'm giving this a big fat ten.
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