Martian Child on DVD (2007)

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.

  7 out of 7 people found this review helpful

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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.

  6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Mexborough , 09/05/2008

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

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Leicester , 29/05/2008

This is a very nice under the radar kind of film, which I quite enjoyed. I watched it with my partner and he really liked it as well, although he found Joan Cusack a little annoying at points as she seems to act a part that she has played so many times before. If you like John Cusack this will definitely help as he is the real centre of the film. Basically, it is about a guy who is still troubled by the death of his wife and doesn't really feel a part of society or anything around him. He then adopts a kid who believes he is from Mars and clearly has similar contact issues with reality. The film is then about them getting to grips with eachother. It is nice, there is nothing particularly unpredictable or indeed overly sentimental about it, but as a sunday afternoon film - worth a watch.

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Wales , 14/06/2008

Cusack, J - is a dysfunctional adult writer of sci-fi novels, and seeking solace, fosters an even more dysfunctional child. That child lives most of the day in a box (but is coaxed out by Cusack), believing himself to be from Mars - Cusack and child have a common thread to their relationship - or that is what was meant to have been portrayed. What follows is shallow, too slow and does not reflect the issues that both adult and child would really face, even if the adult would have been allowed to foster in the first place. No real emotion, although it goes through the motions, but without any real conviction. Produced with minimal care, and even less thought. Slightly mocking in places, and transparent in its storyline, which is both threadbare and lifeless. Some may enjoy, but really worth only one star.

  3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

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Bambi62 from Bournemouth , 21/07/2008

This is a great family funny but though provoking film. It has a good story and the actors especially the boy, are very good. It makes you think about how children view the world around them when they feel no one wants them. Would watch this again

  1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

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