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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I hadn’t watched this in a long while, and it was a fun watch with the kids, 11 and 13. They enjoyed it.
But (SPOILER) in the parallel universe at the end, Colter Stevens is in the body of a teacher named Sean Fentress. Does this mean that in order to keep up appearances, he has to go to school and pretend to be a teacher? Or does he not even try? Won’t Michelle Monaghan’s character think he’s crazy when…
Call me crazy, but I didn’t think it was as bad as everyone else did. The first half held up better than the second half. Yes, the effects were half-baked, but I gave it a pass for some reason I can’t explain. It just felt like that kind of half-baked movie. It had some genuine laughs for me, and it definitely earned points just for nostalgia. I certainly enjoyed it more than the Justice League movies. Too bad the main actor seems to be an a-class asshole.
I really wanted to like this. The first 20 minutes introduced such innovative use of stop motion, and the conceit with the voices was clever. But I just didn't buy that the female lead was a real character. She felt written. And that disconnect prevented me from engaging or caring, which prevented the whole thing from really coming together for me.