[Kirkwood]

Didn't see the film, but the trailers make me wonder why any kid would want to see this movie. I know it is based on a popular book, but that doesn't mean the movie will be a hit. It looks dark, drab, and boring. There have been many movies like that for kids - made by adults with no idea of what kids want.

[Melinda]

I asked some children today if they were going to see it. After ambivalent shrugs, I was told that they weren't that crazy about the book in the first place. Maybe the story caught the eyes of more Hollywood adults than children.

[vikingchick]

Can anybody give me a Reader's Digest version of the plot of this movie? Thanks.

[GWfan]

I took my neices and nephew to see it. They were pretty bored. I didn't like it at all.

[buwaya]

Au contraire !

My 4-year-old boy, a train fanatic like so many of them, loved it. It has a train, beautifully detailed and the action centers on all parts of it, inside and out. As is all the "terrain" around it. Superbly done.

The action is interesting and often exciting. The story, etc., is soppy as hell, the musical/dance bits are both weird and blah, but for little kids this stuff is of no account. It is not a movie for teenagers. This is a little kids movie really.