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Movie Reviews of Jack
Movie Review: Jack! Jack! Jack! Jack!
Summary: 4 Stars
I find this to be one of the finest Robin Williams dramatic/comedic performance. I enjoyed it immensely. Robin Williams portrays Jack Powell, a boy who suffers from a disease that ages him 4 times faster than normal. Just image a 10 year old boy with the body of a 40year old & with the comedy of Robin Williams! School is really a hassle!Movie Review: Robin Williams as a child
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a solid movie. Robin Williams does a great job pretending to be a 10-year-old boy. The boy's condition is similar to Werner syndrome, a disorder that causes premature aging starting during puberty.Movie Review: Jack
Summary: 4 Stars
I absolutely love this movie. It's great for the family, has some comedy and is also a tear jerker. Great cast too, Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez and Fran Drescher, to name a few.Movie Review: Not A Classic But Standable
Summary: 3 Stars
Don't expect a classic when you see this, because if you expect that then you're not going to like it, the movie is okay. It's just a heartwarming story that is more for the family then anything else, good though, Robin Williams displays good acting here.Movie Review: Diane Lane & Jennifer Lopez can only do so much
Summary: 2 Stars
One gloomy night in August, Brain Powell and Karen Powell (Brain Kerwin and Diane Lane) decided they would like to be parents. Two months later at a Halloween party Karen realized that the baby was ready to get out after only two months. Had the baby ripped out Aliens-style, this movie would have no doubt been better; however, it wasn't meant to be. Nonetheless, the Halloween-spawn came forth as Karen delivered what essentially turned out to be the Wolfman.
It turns out that Karen delivered her baby, Jack (Robin Williams), seven months early because he's aging at four-times the rate of a normal human. What was left out of the explanation, however, was that along with the quadrupled growth rate, Jack had hair growth at roughly 25 times the normal rate. That's the only explanation for Jack ending up looking like a 40 year old wearing a fur coat or an extra for Planet of the Apes. Given Williams' resemblance to the guy one step from the right on the evolutionary chart, I suppose the premise is not all that unbelievable. Williams playing an innocent, character who diddles and fidgets like a child, on the other hand, is just awkward.
Anyway, by the time Jack is ready for school he looks like a middle-aged adult. He eventually ends up going to public school where he's horribly out of place, and it's much worse than you would expect for a movie in which Robin Williams plays a grade-schooler. In all the appropriate places, where a child interacts with parents, a heartwarming pause is felt by all. Except anyone with a pulse. Essentially he's the proverbial turd in a punchbowl. It's just Robin Williams hamming it up for the camera for 2 hours, basically the same thing he did in the "Don't Worry, Be Happy" video - a grown man willing to flush his dignity down the toilet in order to do ridiculous things that only he finds amusing.
Thank goodness for the combined efforts of the talented and gorgeous Diane Lane, and the sexy, nubile school teacher played by Jennifer Lopez. If not for those two, this atrocity of a movie may have caused riots. I only recommend this movie for severely deranged masochists.