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Movie Reviews of Imagine That
Movie Review: One Sky when dealing with Gifted Children
Summary: 4 Stars
Overview:
This is a 107 minute comedy-drama that is based in Denver, Colorado, because of its magnificent skyline and landmarks. The Rating is PG, mainly because of the complication in the relationship between Evan Danielson (Eddie Murphy) and his daughter, Olivia (Yara Shahidi).
Plot:
Evan is a financial executive that has been doing well, however, he is a work-aholic. He has been performing well for the last 8.5 years on his job, but there is a new guy on the block: Johnny Whitefeather (Thomas Haden Church), who seems to have become a very close rival over the last few months.
Quite by accident, Evan discovers that his daughter's imaginary friends always make the right calls when it comes to investment decisions. This 'gift' manages to keep him just ahead of Whitefeather, who uses weird Navaho themes when making presentations.
Crunch Point:
The crunch comes when the existing chairman is set to resign, and both Evan and Johnny are the contenders for the promotion. However, they must prove themselves to group boss, Dante D'Enzo (Martin Sheen). They have both been given a portfolio and have 24 hour to make their presentation to Dante, who will then decide who will get the post.
Comical scenes then ensue as Evan's daughter is at a party and then a sleep over, while Johnny's decides to suddenly use his son, filled with Red Bull, to make investment recommendations for him.
What this film teaches:
We must love our children for who they are, and not for any special talent or gifting that they may have. This is a nice family movie, that teaches parents that they must take quality time to spend with their children.
Movie Review: I thought this movie was very positive and uplifting
Summary: 4 Stars
I loved this movie, I thought it was very positive and uplifting and funny and cute. it's about an executive with a high-stress job who has a young daughter who he and his wife shares who inspires him in his work by giving him ideas from her very high imagination and they both act out fantasies from her stories, making them real in real life. They both bond, and form an interesting relationship. I guess the story is about how his career ultimaely rises from her ideas from his cute and sweet little girl. Both of them are changed forever and are changed probably for the better by his wise daughter's stories. The movie has a very happy and very positive ending, and he gets the job he wants and also is there for his daughter when she sings in front of her school play. The ending is funny because his boss tells the other guy, the Indian guy that his ideas are crap and drivel and lame and kicks him out and also says that because he walked out on him, that he got the job like the thousands of executives who have before who are now working high-level jobs of his and he also says that he had a daughter and hasn't seen her in years, so he knows what it's like. The ending is very cool, the movie features very good Beatles music. This movie is really cute and I enjoyed it very much, especially the little girl and I thought she did a great job. This is Eddie Murphy's best movie in years, he does a great job and it's a pretty good movie. Enough said.Movie Review: Good Family Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a different Eddie Murphy movie and one that should have done better in the ratings than it did. I bought it for family members who are very particular as to what they allow children to watch. It was funny, had a message regarding a father's need to
take time to be a real father. The little girl in movie was excellent in the part. I have bought this movie for future viewing.
Movie Review: it's better than NORBIT, but so is a fork in the eyeball
Summary: 3 Stars
Eddie Murphy is a long ways away now from his box office days, which goes to show just how hard it is to stay on top and to stay relevant. IMAGINE THAT follows his trend of starring in kid-friendly flicks, except that this one isn't as good as the SHREK films, as as good as DR. DOLITTLE or even DADDY DAY CARE. That IMAGINE THAT is watchable at all is due to some nice interplay between Murphy and the little girl who plays his daughter in the movie.
The story elements couldn't be more trite or unoriginal. Workaholic investment adviser Evan Danielson (Murphy) is intent on climbing that corporate ladder and barely finds time for his 7-year-old kid Olivia. When his separated wife sticks him with babysitting Olivia, Evan agrees - after all, he does love his daughter - but Olivia, cute but peculiar, is no match for his work portfolio. Olivia's favorite thing in the world is her googah, which is this blue security blanket and also her portal to an imaginary world and her invisible friends.
For Evan, it's hard to do work when your kid is incessantly talking silly nonsense to herself. But is it really nonsense? When Olivia's make-believe princess friends end up dispensing savvy investment tips, Evan decides that he ought to spend more time with his daughter. Er, because he loves her.
Kids may like this, probably, because Yara Shahidi is cute and earnest and simply very good as Olivia. But the story follows a predictable path. Its payoff is weak and involves Murphy's character having to get to his daughter's big school concert. Not that it matters, but we never do learn for sure if the fantasy element really is of a magical nature or rooted in a more earthbound explanation. There's an attempt near the end to suggest that maybe, just maybe Olivia's imaginary friends are real but, like I said, it's weak. Eddie Murphy does his usual enjoyable fast-talking thing, and actually he tones down his brand of silly even more in favor of constructing a more affecting emotional core to the story. It's a good move because the father/daughter moments are the best parts of the movie.
Thomas Haden Church will either make you laugh or exasperate you with his interpretation of a smarmy rival of Evan's who applies his part-Native American heritage and some weird New Agey philosophy to get the jump on our guy (Church's character is labeled a "Man Whisperer"). Stephen Root, Martin Sheen, and Ronny Cox are here, too, and so what?
The thing about cameos featuring current famous people is that, sometimes, they fall out of relevance or their situations change, and this has the effect of dating the movie. Allen Iverson is long gone from the Denver Nuggets and now back in Philly, something which jarringly took me out of the movie's story. If you're not a basketball fan, then this probably doesn't bug you.
IMAGINE THAT isn't too horrible a choice if you're looking for something to divert the kids. It's not exactly top shelf material, but there's nothing objectionable in it, other than its sin of sticking to the formula. It's certainly loads better than NORBIT, which is objectionable on so many levels.
Movie Review: Terrible and *not* family friendly movie
Summary: 1 Stars
As a Father watching this movie with my family and young kid, I felt insulted watching this movie because it reflects Dad's in poor light and promotes the concept of broken families where parents are separated.
I was raised by good parents and I see good Dad's all around me. To show Dads as incompetent and selfish as portrayed by Eddie Murphy should be insulting to all Dad's.
The movie deals with a trite adult concept of a 'busy father with no time for kids' in a way that is not appropriate for kids.
Further, the movie promotes the idea of broken families with Father and Mother living separately.
Hated the movie.