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Slight but cute

posted 13 years ago by LostSok0523
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It would be easy but pointless to attack this movie for so over-simplifying the task of running a municipality (problems are usually not as simple as the former mayor and cronies being cartoon-villain thieves). However, this movie works best if one shrugs off the naive semi-sermonizing and accept it as the story of a family that truly loves and supports each other. It doesn't take itself as seriously as movies like Swing Vote, which is good considering the questionable nature of its apparent message, although it likewise lacks that movies deeper humor.

Lea Thompson is as likable as ever, and Judd Nelson quietly steals the movie with his quirky turn as her stoically never-complaining always-there husband, smiling ever so slightly from behind his 70s pornstache.

A long way from a classic, but a nice movie to pass the time if you keep the bar low.

[–] jmatrixrenegade 12 years ago

I mostly agree. This is a movie after all. Look at Dave.

Many small towns have mayors who probably don't know much more really than she does about the fiscal and other stuff. She after all has a guy (later vice mayor) who once run a bank to advise her. Judd Nelson has a nice pretty atypical role that does underline the quiet charms of the film.

The cartoon thieves are a bit much, but heck, look at It's A Wonderful Life. The former mayor is a pretty believable sort as is that clerk guy who is good enough but just watches the local graft go by. It's a pleasant little movie.

[–] jharmon64 12 years ago

Thank you and the OP for common sense posting.

I like the film and yes, it's just a movie.

[–] GaelicLass 12 years ago

I agree Lost sok, it is a fun movie and the message I got from it and one to share with your family is that doing good for others is so rewarding and public service is a good thing to do.

"Sometimes you have to know when to put a cork in it."
~Frasier