(rated PG 104mins)
Like last year’s “Sixth Sense” Willis has again found movie chemistry with a child – Spencer Breslin (this year’s Haley Joel Osment), and manages to revive Willis’s “Moonlighting” charm. The premise is of a boy (adult Willis’s inner child) who realizes at almost forty he’s chick-less, dog-less and not flying jets like he was supposed to grow up to do. The movie shoots straight at the adult. Way over a kid’s head, forcing us to take a look at ourselves and whether we did grow up to be what we once imagined. Jean Smart is a believable Texan newscaster, Lily Tomlin in a short and sweet role as Willis’s assistant (deadpan funny), and Emily Mortimer as his smitten colleague (quite lovely on screen). While the story takes a while to launch the kid into the plot, making your own kid squirm in his seat, this is without a doubt the movie you should view as a family because for once, only you will get it, and realize it’s never too late to follow your dreams.
