Unfortunate box office flop

Basically it was a movie which Scorcese made for kids which wouldn't have interested the average one. I enjoyed it but would have been bored out of my skull if I'd watched something like this at 10 (I watched it at 29) apart from Baron Cohen's comic scenes. Scorcese said somewhere that he wanted to respect children's intelligence but I don't think that's a wise box office move while most adults wouldn't be so keen either- because it's too wholesome or they would feel Scorcese was the wrong person to be directing something like this. I'm sure Scorcese would have loved a movie like this as a kid but being box-office savvy would have required dumbing things down. He lost a lot on this film. Then again he's made plenty of moneymakers so that gives him some license to do a financially risky passion project. I'm personally glad he made it, always good to see directors branching out but it was a big budget film with a limited audience.