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childish delight to pouting to hysterical fits and does a very convincing job of it.

I hear this film is based on a book, but I've never read that book so I have no idea how the movie adds up. Since the book is almost always better than the movie, I'm very interested in reading it after watching this film. That said, throughout this film I caught myself flashing back to the first months after I met my best friend after I moved in middle school and the many sunny days we spent in the wooded pasture behind her house whittling away on aspen branches and making up stories about fantastical creatures and events. It seems that in this age of video games, movies, and computers kids aren't being encouraged to use their imaginations very often and it's pretty interesting to run into a film that focuses on just that...hey, they're kids, they shouldn't have their feet on the ground! Also at the end I think the movie did an excellent job of melding imagination with reality and how the imaginary part of the world can help people cope with the horrible realities.

Overall I found this film a little bit on the corny side, but I attribute most of that to the younger actors that dominated the screen time...and yes, a somewhat sub-par script as well. This is definitely a film I want to add to my son's movie collection when the time comes (he's only three right now) because I think the stress on imagination is an important one in a kid's (and an adult's) life.

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