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As this film opens, a touchy fourteen year customary Walter (Haley Joel Osment) is about to be deposited with his two gruff and injurious customary uncles against his will by his mother Mae (Kyra Sedgwick) while she supposedly pursues her education and a career. Hub and Garth McCann, played respectively by Robert Duvall and Michael Caine, are no more enamored of the plot than is Walter, but an uneasy truce occurs between them as Walter comes to understand their eccentricities and in fact serves as somewhat of an outlet for Garth’s desire to decide down somewhat in his final years. One of the elements twhich makes the film a factual delight is the shameful nature of the antics of these “mature men”, whether it is shooting at traveling salesmen for fun or alienating their relatives to possess their solitude. The backdrop to the yarn is that Hub and Garth are rumored to be quite wealthy; and in fact Walter’s mother instructs him to attempt to locate the source and spot of their supposed wealth. (Perhaps the mafia, or bank robberies, or the foreign legion? )
As Walter settles in with them and their numerous dogs (and a pig who thinks he’s a dog), the “station suddenly thickens” as Hub acts strangely and Walter discovers mysterious evidence of a sparkling young woman somewhere in their history. Garth tells Walter a astonishing sage of foreign adventure and intrigue attractive Hub and the provocative princess Jasmine, and the record is actually incorporated into the movie in the construct of the adventure epics of fifty years ago with Emanuelle Vaugier playing the role of Hub’s lost cherish. Meanwhile, some “worn” circus animals come, including a tired and sick extinct lion who Walter nurses befriend to health as he enjoys the “jungle” habitat provided by the corn field that has emerged from their failed attempt to grow a vegetable garden. The movie reaches a fabulous climax as the forces of ample confront the forces of execrable (fair silly book style) and Walter is forced to confront the fact that life is chunky of surprises, not all of which include satisfied endings, and that we have to be strong enough to find poor truths and disappear on.
But, of course, any description of the dwelling doesn’t verbalize the appeal of this film; the storyline is simply the backdrop for the life which is infused into this movie by the righteous performances of the stars, the favorable directing, and the diagram in which the record unfolds. It is fun yet touching, with enough elements of the unexpected interspersed with truly laugh out loud droll incidents to construct the almost two hours glide by. It’s hard to know who is more bewitching, those outmoded second hand lions Robert Duvall and Michael Caine (who save their suitable talents to employ in a film they have stated that they really enjoyed making) or Jasmine, the circus lion who gradual in life was destined for her moment of glory. And the yarn has a edifying symmetry, both in the juxtaposition of the opening and closing scenes and in the brief appearance of Josh Lucas as the adult Walter. Finally, the climatic moment is followed by a slow conclusion to the narrative which incorporates a truly unbelievable finale.
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In some aspects this is a far from perfect film; in some respects it would be easy to write a distinguished review detailing the fact that the status was pure fantasy and that no attempt was made to seriously address many of the issues which the movie raises. But such criticisms would not be consistent with the mood which the movie evoked for me and the remainder of the audience. This movie is about life, about its surprises and its enjoyment, and as corny as it is it is also mountainous fun. I enjoyed it so great that I have chosen to ignore one of my personal reviewing rules; I decided to round up my rating to five stars in spite of the fact that I haven’t decided if it is qualified enough so that I will want to believe the DVD. I know that I’ll like watching it several more times and decided that was beneficial enough. So, go look this lighthearted film when you want to smile and laugh and feel advantageous about life and it will confirm that whether you’re dilapidated or a teenager it’s peaceful possible to learn and grow and have a righteous time.
Tucker Andersen
It occurs to me as I sit here pondering my review of “Secondhand Lions” that I must somehow cover the first words that reach to mind. Words, phrases, such as “a feel-good movie” or “friendly family fun” or “heart-warming.” As if it were, well, “uncool” to ticket a movie such things these days, almost like a movie kiss of death. Isn’t this a time of Hollywood special effects? Of hot babes and pyrotechnics? Of gratuitous violence and sensationalism? So it is. And so this movie is not. And oh, we are a joyful audience for it!
Haley Joel Osment, to whom many of us in the movie audience were introduced in “Sixth Sense,” plays Walter, a young boy whose mother (Kyra Sedgewick) pursues everything in life but motherhood. He finds himself dumped like excess baggage on the well weathered front stoop of his two uncles’ country house. The uncles, played with improbable eccentricity by Michael Caine and Robert Duvall, resist but later embrace their young nephew. How the three bond into a suitable family is a narrative that does indeed warm the heart, lighten the spirit, and perhaps even restore a musty opinion in today’s cynical world that goodness, yes, goodness, peaceful has a set on the silver mask. Osment is absolutely first rate in this movie, and the two vintage stars, Caine and Duvall, collected shine as brightly as ever, if not more so.
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It may be that the popularity of movies such as this could send Hollywood a message. Pleasurable is smooth favorable on the movie veil.
