.The Story: After failing to save a scientist - not his fault, just to be clear - Navy SeAL Shane Wolf is assigned to watch over the man's children while their mother helps the government retrieve a program that he was working on. The Good: Hey, it's funny! Which, yah, it had a share of jokes that fell flat and stuff that just didn't really work, but the good, honest laughs in it far outweighed the bad.The children are all great, too. And the connection that's forged between all of them feels quite genuine and touching.The harness that Shane wears throughout the movie is awesome. Military meets soccer mom . . . I like it.The Bad: Not original in the least. Seems like hardly anything is nowadays. There are a number of jokes that are recycled directly from other movies of this type, even. Maybe not done as well as in this one, but still. And the story moves along pretty much as one would expect. They were obviously trying to be predictable and comfortable as possible . . . this is a family flick, after all.The beginning of the movie (the first fifteen to twenty minutes, I'd say) moves EXTREMELY FAST, jumping from one bit to the other at almost breakneck speed. The movie is pretty long as it is (I didn't keep exact track or anything, but surely it can't possibly be 91 minutes!), so I'm guessing that this is because a lot of cuts were made, and most of them were concentrated up front. The main problem with this is that there's a real difficulty feeling anything concerning the family's loss until much later in the movie. Up to that later point, there's just sort of a sense of "Eh, so what?"----Isaiah M. Burroughs
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Updated: Thursday, 29 July 2010 3:51 PM EDT
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