Reviews

What were they thinking? This movie is geared to the typical Seasame Street set of 2 to 8 year olds. Although the story line deals with lessons in sharing, we see Elmo lose his blanket to an evil fellow in Grouchland. If your kids have a favorite blanket this will hit too close to home. The producers added commentary by Bert and Ernie after the movie proved too frightening. The Bert and Ernie bits do lighten things up a bit but it is too scary. The movie has the usual great sets, puppets etc. but it is not for the 2 to 8 year old set. Go figure.

The original TV series (especially the early years) was dynamite. For the most part the plots centered around completely covert actions where the public didn't even realize anything was going down. This was an exciting action movie but my big objection was that about only one-third (at best) was true to the MI genre - and those parts were really terrific. I also have a big problem that there has been internal corruption in the MI force in both pictures.

This film was very mean - I'm the first to admit that mean humor can sometimes be hilarious. But this picture didn't work. There's not much more than a five minute sketch on SNL. My analysis is simple - it just wasn't funny.