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Mixed or average reviews- based on 17 Ratings

  • Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church
  • Summary: A successful financial executive has more time for his blackberry than his seven-year-old daughter, but when he has a crisis of confidence and his career starts going down the drain, however, he finds the solution to all his problems in his daughter’s imaginary world. (Paramount Pictures)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 23
  2. Negative: 3 out of 23
  1. Reviewed by: Perry Seibert
    88
    By no means a landmark, but it is a remarkably pleasant surprise -- so few movies aimed for the whole family show an understanding of why it's actually healthy to pretend.
  2. For the first time since "The Nutty Professor," Eddie Murphy successfully mixes his adult and kid-film personas -- imagine that.
  3. 25
    Cutesy? My pain was acutesy as the entire plot yawned before me.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 9
  2. Negative: 3 out of 9
  1. ss
    9
    Great to know their are enchanting movies out there that define success in a new light! Definitely would recommend this movie to all families!
  2. LesterE
    8
    Our family enjoyed the movie, funny and charming. I think more people should keep an open mind. I think Eddie Murphy is getting a bad rap since his last few movies bombed. Expand
  3. A fun family movie that will have you laughing until the end, while the story and the lesson being taught are predictable, it's the humor that sets it apart, while it may not do much new it's still an enjoyable movie for the family. Expand
  4. kgm
    4
    Thomas Haden Church is brilliant as Johnny Whitefeather

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