Even when children's movies contain no actors I like, or the story does not seem particularly compelling, I usually find them at least moderately entertaining. This was not the case with "The Borrowers." By the end of the first scene, I became pretty bored with the run-of-the-mill, slapsticky plot twists. Characters do things like run around, screech, burp, fall for no apparent reason, tie people up, and pretty much what they do in almost every other movie aimed at kids. The characters are also pretty dimwitted, racous, grating, and even The Borrower family failed to capture my sympathy. The lady was scary, the man was wooden, and the kids were brats. John Goodman has a very slapsticky role, and I have pretty much forgetten everybody else in the film.
Review of The Borrowers
