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Forever Young (Full Screen)

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Here is a movie with Mel Gibson and Jamie Lee Curtis in it. The storyline is well put together and we find that these two really play their roles well. If you also like a movie with a touch of romance in it, you may like this one too.

Excellent feel good movie.

Highly recommended. Gibson is a very
gifted actor!!!

Staring Mel Gibson, this is an entertaining family movie with just a smidgen of science fiction. But where's the theatrical widescreen edition? Sorry, but I only purchase DVDs displaying the film's ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO.

Forever Young is a very nice movie about a man who is cryogenicly frozen and forgotten about until around 50 years later and is found by a young boy and his mother.

The movie has a great cast including, Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood and George Wendt who played Norm on Cheers.

It's a nice movie but unfortunately the DVD is in the pan & scan format only and not widescreen so hopefully they will put out a widescreen version too.

Forever Young is a good family movie. It's gentle and fun. My only real negative comment about it concerns the plot line which is very unbelievable. I felt it never really tried to justify itself. Mel Gibson is his usual charming self and Jamie Lee Curtis is delightful. Kudos to the young Elijah Wood who shines. his singing scene probably won him over all of the female audience, including me. All in all it's an enjoyable movie, not ambitious but one that can easily become a favorite.

I thought that this movie was an asweme movie! The reason why I wanted to watch it was because I knew it had Elijah Wood in it as a young and fearless boy names Mat. He is about 8 or 9 maybe even 10 years old. It doesn't take but two minuents to really get into it and to think it is interisting. You won't want to have any introuptions while you watch it. You'll want to see it over and over again and again. It is very exiting and it even has some romance in it for theose of you who love romance.

I liked this film enough to buy it on a widescreen laserdisc (remember those?). Why-oh-why does Warner Brothers DVD division insist on continuing to crank out good movies like this in full-screen format? It actually takes MORE effort to transfer a film in pan-and-scan than it does to simply transfer it in it's orignal aspect ratio. I am waiting to buy this film on DVD if it ever comes out in widescreen, but until then I am boycotting all WB full-screen DVD's regardless of how good the movie is. That is the only way they will wake up and get the message: WE WANT WIDESCREEN OR BOTH VERSIONS ON ONE DVD; NOT FULL-SCREEN ONLY!

This is the very best sort of science-fiction. The type where the central concept is used to establish the situation, then forgotten about as the action concentrates on human relationships and character.

Mel Gibson plays a World War II test pilot who is accidentally frozen for over fifty years and rediscovered in 1992. His story is about the love he lost in the 1930s, his friendship with two boys and the mother of one of them, and finally how he regains the love he lost.

The sets for the cryogenic chamber are some of the best I have seen, with gleaming copper and brass making a believable 1930s hi-technology. The film does let itself down with the ageing make-up in its latter stages, despite the fact that two men receive an on-screen credit for 'special' make-up. The main characters are likeable, even the kid played by Elijah Wood in one of his early screen roles. Jamie Lee Curtis puts in a good performance, although it's amazing how she has time to look so good when she is a nurse and a mother and trying to find the man of her dreams!

All in all an enjoyable film with an unexpected but romantic ending.

'Forever Young' is an attractive well-produced film focussing on the story of Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson) a US Air Corps pilot in the 1940s. Grief-stricken by a personal tragedy he volunteers for a cryogenics experiment and is frozen in time until he wakes up alone and forgotten in 1992. This film is everything a conventional drama should be, well paced, moving with an engaging storyline. It is a charmingly positive piece of good old-fashioned filmmaking that will appeal to a huge range of audiences. 'Forever Young's' appeal really lies in its simplicity. There is nothing mentally taxing or thought provoking here, just a relaxing armchair film after a hard day at the office with an unashamedly sentimental ending. It is a refreshingly unpretentious film that does not try to be 'great' or in any way arty but merely seeks to be entertaining- and succeeds admirably in this regard.
Mel Gibson is utterly believable as McCormick with a polished, uncluttered performance that resonates with genuine feeling. What he dishes out is hardly complex, angst-ridden Oscar winning stuff, but then, do we want it to be? Though the film is in essence a vehicle for Gibson the other cast member's performances are just as good. Jamie Lee Curtis and George Wendt are especially excellent amongst the adult cast, with unforced smooth performances. Elijah Wood as Nat Cooper is completely charming and engaging with a screen presence that, in an eleven year old, is remarkable. Apart from Gibson he is the real stand out performance of this film and a joy to watch even at this young age. For fans of 'The Lord of the Rings' this film is worth watching even just to see Elijah 'Frodo' Wood up a tree singing 'You are my Sunshine' to a rather bemused looking little girl!
In summary, 'Forever Young' lacks any degree of ostentation and succeeds in being utterly unselfconscious and as enjoyable a piece of quality drama as you will ever see. Don't get me wrong, it is definitely not a truly 'great' film but it succeeds precisely because it does not try to be 'great' it just tries to be entertaining.

Forever Young kicks ... Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Elijah Wood star in the fun and emotional movie. I loved this movie, really, you will absolutly adore this movie. Gibson and Curtis give incredible preformances. Elijah Wood is amazingly adorable and an incredible actor for his young age. This movie, is seriously, so adorable. It leaves you crying and smiling at the same time, it's kinda weird, but soo cool. I can not express how much i like this movie.