Four score years into your life, imagine staring at what you have grown up to become and exclaim loudly “I cannot believe that I have grown up into a forty year old chickless, friendless guy with a twitch in the eye and NO DOG !!”, and slowly you pipe down and whisper to yourself in a disdained resignation “I have grown up to become a looser”.
Bruce Willis plays the role of an image consultant who gets paid for being rude to people and telling them on their faces what pathetic losers they are. He gets to boss around people and size them down with outrageously rude remarks and gets paid for it. So when he is visited by his own self as he was at age eight he is disgustedly embarrassed staring at the chubby impudent image who’s perpetually hungry and eats both his words and everything edible that’s around. He reminisces to his kid image how he grows up being called the biggest wimp who black’s out at the very first punch from the school bullies. He tells him how he endures this wound through his schooling and slogs his but-tt off through college and graduates though one of the finest universities and somewhere along the line manages to get the twitch in the eye.
Bruce Willis thus gets his biggest assignment in his career staring at “Rusty”(as he was called as a kid). First he tries to avoid the fact and takes strong medication that his psychiatrist prescribes to him after a “five-minute hour” session, to make the hallucination evanescent.
The movie is filled with streaks of hilarious incidents, like when the kid decides to brave up and proposes to his rather cute accented colleague. Unlike the adult who always tries to avoid the fact that he has the hearts for her.
Do anything impudent as a kid and people call it ’’cute’’ do the same thing as an adult and people call you an immature jerk, and of course they also say everyone has a ten-year old in them. Now I am all confused.
Abundant with charming humor this movie is a great way to spend your Sunday evening with your family and have a few laughs while at it. Disney has lived up to its standards in making entertaining family movies with this one.