Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

SnoopyStyle It's 1939. Captain Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson) is an American test pilot. His lifelong girlfriend Helen gets run over and is stuck in a coma. His friend Harry Finley (George Wendt) is working on a secret cryogenics experiment. Daniel asks him to freeze him for a year or until Helen gets better. It's then present day. Nat Cooper (Elijah Wood) and his friend Felix are playing in an Army warehouse. They accidentally release the cryogenic pod. Nat's mother Claire (Jamie Lee Curtis) doesn't believe them. Nobody at the base believes Daniel either. Daniel tracks down the boys who help him to track down Finley.I want it to have more tension. It just doesn't have a great intensity. It tries to be romantic which is awkward because he was just parted from the love of his life. The aborted romance is indicative of a movie with a lot of possibilities but not as successful as it should be. I really like the first half but the movie has a bunch of little problems. I was OK with the movie until of course, Daniel has to fly the plane. It's like J. J. Abrams was a little too clever with the script. It's the same thing with the aging and the romantic ending. I just think the movie could be a lot better.

Jackson Booth-Millard I knew the leading actor and actress, and later the young supporting star, and I had heard about some bits and pieces about the concept, so I was keen to watch it, from director Steve Miner (Friday the 13th Part 2, Friday the 13th Part III, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Lake Placid). Basically, in 1939, reckless test pilot Capt. Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson) loves his girlfriend Helen (Isabel Glasser) very much and is keen to propose marriage to her, but he cannot pluck up the courage, and then to his shock she is hit by a car. She is put into hospital suffering a coma that doctors say she will not wake up from, so with the success of his friend's experiment, Daniel asks Harry Finley (George Wendt) to cryogenically freeze him in a capsule for one year so he does not have to watch her die. Fifty five years pass, young boys Nat Cooper (young Elijah Wood) and his friend Felix (Robert Hy Gorman) are playing in an abandoned military storage warehouse, and they stumble on the cryogenic chamber, they (and others) assume it is a water heater, but fiddling with it they activate the reversal process. Daniel finds out he has woken up in the year 1992, and after taking some clothes he approaches the military to tell his story, but they assume he is crazy, so he walks away and decides to find out what is going on himself. He stole Nat's jacket, so he tracks the boys down in their tree house, they settle after initial terror, and they help him understand more about the future world he is now in, and he meanwhile plans to find out what has happened to Harry and Helen. The bond between Daniel and Nat is made even stronger when he introduces himself to Nat's single mother Claire (Jamie Lee Curtis) who offers him the couch to sleep on and stay in the house, after saving her an abusive ex-boyfriend. As he continues his search for Harry it is obvious that Daniel is suffering the effects of the status of years he has been living in suspended animation, so he body is starting to age. Claire finds out the situation he is in after he has an "attack" and is taken to hospital, and she receives a phone call from a woman claiming to know Harry Finley, it is his daughter Susan (Millie Slavin), but her father is dead. She gives Daniel information about the freezing process, and unfortunately the ageing process is irreversible, but she shocks with the revelation that Helen is alive, after recovering from the coma. The government, and particularly Cameron (Terminator 2: Judgement Day's Joe Morton) are after the man from the past, but Claire gives them the documentation about the freezing experiment, Project B, so no-one is arrested. Daniel with his time running out in the dramatic ageing races to the house that Helen is meant to be living, and Nat is a stowaway as he helps him, in the end his ageing does stop, and Daniel is overjoyed to see Helen and finally ask him to marry her, she accepts. Also starring Nicolas Surovy as John and David Marshall Grant as Lt. Col. Wilcox USAF. Gibson is charming as the man from the past who will do anything to be with his love, Curtis is nice as the single mother who he likes and she admires, and young Wood proves himself a great early talent. It is a really sweet story, you really root for Gibson as he tries to find the information he wants and ultimately reunite with his true love, the past meets present (future) concept makes for some fun moments of humour and interest, I think this is a very worthwhile romantic fantasy. Good!

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU A very touching film because of some extremely sentimental and poignant elements. The girl that holds your heart and to whom you cannot propose crosses a road and gets hit by a truck. Coma…, irreversible…, they say. Better get frozen for later than live through this death. Frozen by some doctor who dies and leaves you behind and you are abandoned in a hangar. A couple of naughty boys revive you and then the real nightmare starts. They all believe you are nuts of course, except the mother of one of the boys, a nurse by profession he saves from an ex-whatever who wants to rape her. Finding your identity after 53 years in ice, that's hard. But there is a slight problem with Dorian Gray's picture. You are the picture and your age shows fast. Will he find and marry his sweetheart and is she still alive? Will he escape the cops and the doctors? Who knows? What will the little boy who revived him do? Nothing to say here. Just keep in mind this film is a piece of romantic beauty and that's all. The visit of the air force base I remember I must have done it in the same period, around 1990, one or two years more or less. That was a funny experience and I would have loved meeting Mel Gibson in one of the jets. But well no luck boy. Mel Gibson is nothing but a celluloid baby who has no real existence and his life is a dream and in this case the dream could have turned into a nightmare. Mel Gibson is a very flexible actor and manages romantic situations or situations with kids just as well as he does mad situations with Max and his tribe, not to speak of the mythic religious rewriting of the passion or the whole cosmos. There is something like a certain Connors and Schwarzenegger in that Gibson, even if he is a difficult spouse to get a divorce from. Back to the future then.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID

James Hitchcock "Forever Young" opens in the year 1939. Daniel McCormick, a test pilot with the US Army Air Force, sees his girlfriend Helen seriously injured in a road accident which leaves her in a coma. Helen is not expected to recover, and the grief-stricken Daniel volunteers to take part in a secret cryonic freezing experiment being carried out by his close friend, Harry Finley. Daniel hopes that he can be put in suspended animation for a year, so that he doesn't have to watch Helen die. Unfortunately, Harry dies shortly afterwards, and in the chaos following the outbreak of World War II the experiment is forgotten. Daniel remains asleep in his chamber, abandoned in a military warehouse for the next fifty-three years.Finally, Daniel is awoken from his long sleep by two young boys who stumble on the chamber while playing inside the warehouse. Upon waking, he is horrified to discover that it is not, as he had thought, 1940, but 1992. Harry, and nearly everyone else he once knew, are long dead. The Army have never heard of him, and when he tries to convince them of the truth of his experiences, they dismiss him as a lunatic. Eventually he befriends Nat, one of the two boys who opened the chamber, and his divorced mother Claire.There are, of course, a number of plot holes in the film. It seems highly unlikely that only Finley would have known about so major a scientific experiment and that after his death everyone else would simply have forgotten about it. It seems equally unlikely that after being forgotten and abandoned the chamber would have continued to function so perfectly that Daniel could have survived inside for over fifty years. Yet these plot holes do not really matter precisely because the film is not intended to be scientifically plausible. Any film which attributes to the scientists of the 1930s the ability to perform technological feats which would still be beyond our capabilities today is obviously not aiming at realism.The film could have been made as a satire revolving around the differences between the world of the thirties and that of the nineties, with lots of comic misunderstandings based upon the cultural differences between the two eras. It could also have been made as a serious piece of science-fiction, but in fact it is more a fantasy. (There are some similarities with "Somewhere in Time", although in that film the hero travels back in time, not forward). There are certain parallels drawn between the world of the thirties and that of the nineties, generally to the detriment of the latter. Claire is attracted to Daniel because his old-fashioned values make him seem much more gentlemanly and chivalrous than the men of her own era. Mel Gibson is good at bringing out this side of Daniel's character.Just when the film seems to be developing into a romantic comedy which will end with Daniel and Claire falling for one another, and then changes direction with the sudden revelation that Helen did not die in 1939 but is still alive. This sudden shift of emphasis struck me as being the film's greatest weakness; the romantic ending is well done, but is seemed like something added on from a different film. I would not rate "Forever Young" as highly as "Somewhere in Time"; it lacks that film's visual beauty and, except at the very end, its dreamlike romantic atmosphere. Also, Jamie Lee Curtis is not as engaging a heroine as Jane Seymour. Gibson, however, makes a charismatic hero, and overall the film is a watchable romantic fantasy. 6/10