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Disney's The Kid (2000)

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Reviews Counted:95

Fresh:47

Rotten:48

Average Rating:5.2/10

Consensus: Critics find The Kid to be too sweet and the movie's message to be annoyingly simplistic.

Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Russ Duritz is a success--he has looks, he has money, and he has power. The only things he's missing are friends and a conscience. But when an eight-year-old boy mysteriously keeps popping up in... Russ Duritz is a success--he has looks, he has money, and he has power. The only things he's missing are friends and a conscience. But when an eight-year-old boy mysteriously keeps popping up in his high-security home, Russ finds things getting strange: The boy turns out to be himself at age eight--Rusty. Once Russ is able to even accept that the boy is who he says he is (with the hilarious help of Dana Ivey as a therapist under pressure and Lily Tomlin as Russ's assistant), he resists being associated with that image of himself yet again: a pudgy "loser" with a speech impediment. His halfhearted attempts to court his assistant, Amy, are accelerated when his younger self decides to take a hand. Russ thinks he's supposed to help his eight-year-old self become less of a geek, but Rusty might be there to teach Russ a thing or two about the things that really matter. Director Jon Turteltaub also produced this nostalgic, shamelessly emotional film, which features cameos by Larry King and Harold Greene. [More]

Starring: Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin

Starring: Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, Jean Smart, Chi McBride

Director: Jon Turteltaub

Director: Jon Turteltaub
Screenwriter: Audrey Wells
Producer: Jon Turteltaub, Christina Steinberg, Hunt Lowry
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith

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The movie is only mediocre.

Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment Comment
01/01/00
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

The Kid is a delightful, innocuous family film, one that kids will enjoy as well as adults.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Erik Childress
Erik Childress
eFilmCritic.com

A forced, frenetic farce which tries to be both comedic and touching, but fails on both counts.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
01/01/00
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion
N/R

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01/01/00
Gemma Files
Gemma Files
eye WEEKLY

This movie doesn't just want to win your heart. It wants to beat the mortal stuffing out of it until it begs for mercy. If people cry at the end, it'll probably be from the pain of all that pummeling.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
01/01/00
Gene Seymour
Gene Seymour
Newsday

Disney's The Kid has a very strong chance at being a 'surprise hit.'

Full Review Source: Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies | comment Comment
01/01/00
Greg Dean Schmitz
Greg Dean Schmitz
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Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Greg Muskewitz
Greg Muskewitz
eFilmCritic.com

Has reasonable appeal for adults who had to give up their own dreams.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
01/01/00
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Simple, paint-by-number feelings.

Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jack Garner
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

The characters don't act like real people.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

A lame, misconceived comedy with a shopworn, find-the-child-within-yourself message.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jay Boyar
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel

The Kid gets bogged down in its sentimental manipulations.

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01/01/00
Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe

Dollops out cheap sentimentality by the spoonful.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

The Kid has to be the sappiest, most overstated and unbearably manipulative piece of feel-good-through-guilt kind of filmmaking I’ve seen in ages.

Full Review Source: Jeff Huston's Believe Me | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jeffrey Huston
Jeffrey Huston
Jeff Huston's Believe Me
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Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jessica Winter
Jessica Winter
Village Voice

Walt Disney's The Kid is a family-friendly combination of Big and A Christmas Carol, without any of the attendant holiday themes.

Full Review Source: Norman Transcript | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jim Chastain
Jim Chastain
Norman Transcript

The film's plot is rather lackluster and never gets out of second gear.

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

It is more than likely that many adults will also see a bit of themselves in the Willis character.

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment Comment
01/01/00
JoBlo
JoBlo
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01/01/00
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

Everybody else might just roll their eyes at the films sentimentality.

Full Review Source: Planet Sick-Boy | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jon Popick
Jon Popick
Planet Sick-Boy
 
 
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January 01, 2000: Disney's The Kid has a very strong chance at being a 'surprise hit.' Opens in new window
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January 01, 2000: Too bad infamously awful director Jon Instinct Turteltaub is at the helm. Opens in new window
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January 01, 2000: After his great interplay with young Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, Willis has had lots of practice working this kids -- which should help him here. Opens in new window
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January 01, 2000: A summer release from Disney with Willis and a kid? I see dead presidents -- tens of millions of 'em -- everywhere. Opens in new window
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