Ah... The bane of my childhood. This is one movie that literally made Roger Ebert cringe, the one that he hates more than any other movie out there. The one he calls the worst movie he's ever seen, and the worst movie Roger Ebert and Roeper reviewed in their 20 years... North. The trailer is admittedly cool and flashy. It looks entertaining, then you sit down and watch it. Admittedly, they pull out all the stops with an all-star cast. Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Kathy Bates and two of the actors from Seinfeld amongst many, many, many others. But the writing is terrible and you have to give something to these actors for it to work. It's about a kid who decides his parents are crappy and divorces them. He then travels the world to find new ones. Great concept, isn't it? Here's the thing, the jokes don't make sense, like in Alaska the plane stops by bumping gently against the glass. The stereotypes are horrible, seriously, every single stereotype ever thought of is in this movie and then some. There's a scene where the Eskimos are sending their elders onto ice floes to die before they "embarrass themselves." And that's just one of the terrible stereotypes in the movie. It sounds like I'm bashing, but I'm not joking, this is honestly what happens in the movie. The acting is terrible, even if they have an all-star cast, they can't pull it off in this movie between the directing and the script. All the morals and lessons are screwed up, and the ending is just weird... Seriously, this is a movie to see to believe. To quote Roger Ebert in his review: "I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it." He was too kind.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/7838-north This pretty much sums it up.
If only Ebert was the same as he was back than, now he says stupid things like video games are not art, come on man. But anyway, I actually saw North one night on HBO and after 20 minutes of the movie, I changed the channel, it was that bad.
