Rebekah Bennett

I found this movie really quite disturbing, considering the target audience is children. And Kransinski wrote this movie for his daughters!!! What was he thinking normalising a young girl going into a male toilet alone, to watch a man doing his business under the guise of following an imaginary friend??? I felt sick to my stomach watching this scene!!!! Kransinski really needs to speak to child sex abuse survivors and Child Protection Service workers to understand that his naivety in producing this movie has probably give sexual predators a new story to easily gain the trust of a child. Yes, create magical stories about IF's for children, keep the characters animated, but don't make a child think they can tra la la off with a strange man into a male toilet, or into a strange males apartment, alone!!! It's 2024, movies should not be normalising children blindly trusting and following strange men.

Ok, it was made nearly 40 years ago and we've come a long way with CGI, but the acting was C grade, at best. They kept repeating the same scenes with different 'dramatic music' which is either sheer laziness or a really tight budget. In most scenes they forgot to add/paint the blue eyes in during the editing. I found that a very distracting flaw, seeing certain people with blue eyes in one scene, but in the very next scene they have normal eyes. And don't get me started on the animal abuse when Sting walked in with the poor cat and rat tied up awkwardly in the cat. I could hear the cat's mews and see it shaking in fear. Jesus, didn't any decent human back then consider that animal abuse? Terrifying and/or killing animals for the sake of 'entertainment' never should have cut it. Thank God the human consciousness has expanded since then. But we've still got a long way to go. I think 2 stars is being very generous.