| The Kid (rated PG for language) is a video release from Disney worth noting: it's a mature, wholesome film that provides agreeable entertainment for parents and children alike. Bruce Willis plays a successful, driven L.A. image consultant. He's also single, has very few friends, and is barely on speaking terms with his father. As his life begins to unravel slightly, a pudgy, sweetly naïve kid shows up at his home. If he looks familiar to Willis, it's with good reason-The "kid" is Willis himself, out of place and time, but transported to meet his future self for a reason. The movie refrains from nonsensical attempts to explain how the kid is where he is. And most refreshingly, Spencer Breslin, as the kid, does not speak in the vague sexual innuendos and nasty sarcasms that Hollywood writers often puts in kids' mouths in the name of humor. But The Kid doesn't completely rise above its roots. This is Disney, and the movie's ambiguous message communicates little more than a simple truism about the emptiness of unchecked professional ambition. Christians, however, know that it takes more than a wife, a dog, and pickup truck to fill the void in a vacant heart. |
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