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I Confess To Seeing This Movie In Theaters As a Child . . . Twice

Off-beat fantasy on the road of American satire

Peter Falk and Fred Savage in The Princess Bride (1987)

Bruce Willis, Roseanne Barr, Megan Milner, and Lorne Sussman in Look Who's Talking Too (1990)

J. Evan Bonifant, Sean Fox, Max Elliott Slade, and Victor Wong in 3 Ninjas Kick Back (1994)

Thora Birch and Finster in Monkey Trouble (1994)

Jamie Lee Curtis, Jennifer Tilly, Caroline Aaron, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Pollak, Wallace Shawn, Mooky Arizona, Herbert Russell, Kyle Howard, Sheila McCarthy, Amy Sakasitz, Alex Seltz-Wald, Harry Winer, and Josh Wolford in House Arrest (1996)

A bird in the hand is always greener than the grass under the other guy's bushes. It's a metaphor used by gardeners and landscaping people in general.

Dan Aykroyd, Elijah Wood, and Reba McEntire in North (1994)

Dan Aykroyd, Bruce Willis, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Ritter, Elijah Wood, Jon Lovitz, Jason Alexander, Faith Ford, and Reba McEntire in North (1994)

Bruce Willis and Elijah Wood in North (1994)

Elijah Wood and Alan Zweibel in North (1994)

Elijah Wood, Joran Corneal, and Joshua Kaplan in North (1994)

Elijah Wood

Bruce Willis

Jason Alexander

Alan Zweibel

Andrew Scheinman

Sick of being neglected by his parents, a young boy leaves home and travels the world in search of new parents.

Rob Reiner

North

I actually didn&apos;t find it so bad.

When &quot;North&quot; came out, it got a scathing review in Portland&apos;s newspaper The Oregonian (I found this out several years later, as I didn&apos;t know about the movie&apos;s release at the time), and Siskel &amp; Ebert named it the worst movie of 1994 (I knew about this at the time). Even the previous reviewer on IMDb.com called it the worst movie ever.

When I saw it a few months after Siskel &amp; Ebert named it the worst flick of 1994, I couldn&apos;t understand why people blasted it so. Granted, it wasn&apos;t a masterpiece by any stretch - we expect really good movies from a director like Rob Reiner - but it was interesting if absolutely nothing else. Featuring the title character (Elijah Wood) getting a divorce from his parents and traveling the world looking for new ones, I guess that it was little more than a way to pass time. Perhaps &quot;North&quot; had little more to show for itself than a giant cast: Bruce Willis, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dan Aykroyd, Graham Greene, Kathy Bates, Alan Arkin, and even a very young Scarlett Johansson. But when you get right down to it, a giant cast isn&apos;t any kind of crime. Like I said, I found the movie interesting if nothing else.

And to the reviewer who called this the worst movie ever, I say this: you don&apos;t know the worst movie ever until you&apos;ve seen the dreadfully boring &quot;Baryshnya-Krestyanka&quot;, which I saw while in St. Petersburg, Russia, last semester. If in fact it&apos;s based on an Alexander Pushkin novel, then Pushkin must spin in his grave every time someone watches that movie. The only way that I kept sane while watching it was by throwing out comments like on &quot;Mystery Science Theater 3000&quot; (and then when I wrote a review to turn in, I dedicated the review to Bob Denver, who had died a few weeks earlier). My point is, even that last reviewer would have to agree that &quot;North&quot; looks like &quot;Citizen Kane&quot; compared to &quot;Baryshnya-Krestyanka&quot;.

So that&apos;s my take on everything.

Home Video Trailer from Columbia Pictures

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When "North" came out, it got a scathing review in Portland's newspaper The Oregonian (I found this out several years later, as I didn't know about the movie's release at the time), and Siskel & Ebert named it the worst movie of 1994 (I knew about this at the time). Even the previous reviewer on IMDb.com called it the worst movie ever.

When I saw it a few months after Siskel & Ebert named it the worst flick of 1994, I couldn't understand why people blasted it so. Granted, it wasn't a masterpiece by any stretch - we expect really good movies from a director like Rob Reiner - but it was interesting if absolutely nothing else. Featuring the title character (Elijah Wood) getting a divorce from his parents and traveling the world looking for new ones, I guess that it was little more than a way to pass time. Perhaps "North" had little more to show for itself than a giant cast: Bruce Willis, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dan Aykroyd, Graham Greene, Kathy Bates, Alan Arkin, and even a very young Scarlett Johansson. But when you get right down to it, a giant cast isn't any kind of crime. Like I said, I found the movie interesting if nothing else.

And to the reviewer who called this the worst movie ever, I say this: you don't know the worst movie ever until you've seen the dreadfully boring "Baryshnya-Krestyanka", which I saw while in St. Petersburg, Russia, last semester. If in fact it's based on an Alexander Pushkin novel, then Pushkin must spin in his grave every time someone watches that movie. The only way that I kept sane while watching it was by throwing out comments like on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" (and then when I wrote a review to turn in, I dedicated the review to Bob Denver, who had died a few weeks earlier). My point is, even that last reviewer would have to agree that "North" looks like "Citizen Kane" compared to "Baryshnya-Krestyanka".

So that's my take on everything.

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