Martian Child on DVD (2007)

interesting

A customer from Plymouth , 22/05/2008

i liked this film slightly different from your normal child adoptions where the child believes hes an alien to avoid the painfull truth that nobody is going to love him and want to bring him up.

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Brilliant

A customer from Musselburgh , 27/05/2008

The Cusacks working together, a very good child actor , good script , tight performances and things to laugh, cheer and cry about....what more could you want.

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Entertaining

A customer from Mexborough , 09/05/2008

Can't rave about it but was entertaining enough for a single veiwing.

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martian child

scottie3112 from Mansfield [Highly rated reviewer] , 28/05/2008

if your looking for a feel good movie then this ones the one to rent .

great performance by the young child actor and cusack.and good storyline.

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Predictable and Corny

Leviathen from London , 03/07/2008

Please note that this review only pertains to the first 2/3 of the film as I couldn't be bothered to watch the rest. This is a sappy and predictable movie. One seems eminently aware of John Cusack's acting - especially in his opening monologue. He's doing his 'I'm not acting here' acting, over-conversationalising everything. Sister Joan Cusack (both onscreen and in real life - how original) plows through scenes with her trademark eccentric expressions and phrasing - how predictable. Only the little Martian boy (a nice, quirky performance by ten year old Bobby Coleman) is interesting as a character here - at first anyway. He quickly becomes boring too as his emotional journey seems stuck in perpetual orbit. Oliver Platt seems to be trying too hard to be subtle. Sophie Okinado rounds out the cast in a refreshingly simple supporting role.

The antics are filled with the predictable sexual tension between John Cusack's character and the sister of his deceased wife (Amanda Peet). Wow - who saw that coming?! Then there's the ridiculous food fight between the new nervous father and his adopted 'alien' that had me clamouring for the fast forward button. Not to mention the hard to buy scene at the baseball game; something that is clearly entirely against character and comes across as a blatant attempt to appeal to a wider audience.

The whole point of this film, incessantly laser-beamed at us with phasers set to stun, seems to be to remind us Earthlings that we should all endeavour to just... be... ourselves... How special.

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THIS FILM IS ADORABLE

scorpion [Highly rated reviewer] , 02/07/2008

THE STORY IS SIMPLE ;A LONELY WIDOWER; ALSO A SCI-FI BEST SELLING AUTHER ADOPT A CHILD WHO LIVES IN A WORLD OF HIS OWN; THE ACTING IS GREAT. THE REAL STAR IN THE FILM IS YOUNG BOBBY COLEMAN WHO PLAY;S DENNIS

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