Secondhand Lions (New Line Platinum Series)
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Movie Reviews of Secondhand Lions (New Line Platinum Series)
Movie Review: This Movie Will Make You Want To Live Life To The Fullest
Summary: 4 Stars
"Secondhand Lions" is a great inspirational movie for the entire family. It is heartwarming and funny. It teaches us that the best is yet to come. Haley Joel Osment (the wonder boy actor from "The Sixth Sense" and "A.I.") is dumped on his two eccentric, great uncles who live in the past. They amaze the boy with stories of when they were forced into the French Foreign Legion and rescued a Princess from a Sheik. How much of it is real and how much is exaggeration?
Osment teaches his uncles that they still have a lot of living to do. First of all, they are faced with "fatherhood." They've been saddled with raising Osment. Osment is the child that the uncles never had. Duvall lost his wife and child during childbirth. In a way, the uncles are Osment's secondhand fathers and he is their secondhand son. Both men are aging lions who begin to experience life anew when Osment arrives.
An old lion from a zoo arrives through the mail. This is another secondhand lion that nobody wants. But Osment wants him, just as he wants and needs his uncles. Through the love of Osment, both the lion and the uncles become what they once were: roaring lions, yearning to live life to the fullest.
Osment eventually learns that the stories his uncles told him weren't as exaggerated as he had suspected and they really lived great lives. This movie reminded me a lot of the film "Big Fish": A grown man attempts to learn who is father really was while fearing
that all his life stories have been lies.
"Secondhand Lions" made me laugh and it made me cry. It is an emotional rollercoaster ride that the entire family will cherish. Watching it made me reflect on my own life. I need to live it to the fullest and maybe someone will say of me, "He died with his boots on."
Movie Review: Great Actors...Acting
Summary: 4 Stars
I really like this movie...I see as a "chick flick" for guys and I mean that in a very positive sense. These actors are playing two "cranky old guys" who have a mysterious past. A young boy (their nephew) who is being pushed onto them. Needless to say the boy and men do not get along at first, but without being sappy or too cute everyone learns to care for one another by the end of the movie. There are battles and heroic tales that are told, which is what makes this a good guy movie, but it also a coming of age movie for a young boy learning what it is to be a man.Movie Review: loved it
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is in a league with Doc Hollywood, Local Hero and Cannery Row. In other words I can watch it several times a year and never tire of it.Movie Review: Second Hand Lions
Summary: 5 Stars
It just goes to show you how two old guys who think that they are tough are just big babies.Movie Review: Family Movie for Everyone
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this movie when I first saw it on TV. I gave it to a friend for Christmas and then ended up buying a copy for myself, too. I think that this movie is wonderful. It has several layers of interesting stories in it and the characters are fantastically vivid yet very human. I don't want to give away any plot, but I will tell you that I have not met anyone who's seen it and not liked it. This is one of the best movies in my dvd collection.