An average movie

A movie starring Natalie Portman and Dustin Hoffman should be really worth a look, right ? Not in this case, I'm afraid... Indeed, it is a kid flick but a rather boring one. I mean, Dustin Hoffman portrays an excentric guy, some kind of Willy Wonka copycat, and this character is supposed to be fascinating and/or funny but I found him rather obnoxious. Natalie Portman has a 'straight' character and, as a result, was not really interesting and, honestly, rather boring. You have to credit them for trying something else and they both did their best but this flick was just not original enough and, above all, not entertaining enough. To conclude, the whole thing looks pretty good and there were, here and there, a few good ideas but I was just terribly bored from the beginning until the end and it was not really worth a look, expect maybe for very young kids who may end up enjoying it more than I did.

5/10