The Game Plan - by Andy Fickman
Genre: Comedy
Rating: ***/5
It seems like there’s a trend towards films starring a strong man being bulldozered over by little people. Remember the Pacifier? Daddy Day Care? A whole host of other equally entertaining movies centered over the same theme… Nevertheless, these are good family entertainment and definitely something that qualifies as relaxation during my much needed break.
Madison Pettis plays the precocious sometimes too-smart-talking-for-her-own-good kiddo of 8, who goes in search of her Dad (Dwayne Johnson) and turns his life upside-down. Then there comes all the typical pranks and messes kids create and shows how the new Dad tries to integrate her into his life…
Later on it’s revealed that her Mum had actually passed away 6 months ago, and yea, though I know this is a movie where it’s all just acting, I can’t help wondering at how resilient young children can be when reacting to the death of their parent.
I was reading this book where a four-year-old loses both her parents, but then she apparently is able to gradually adjust to life with her new guardians. Hmm… Perhaps we’ve got to give this little munchkins more credit. Perhaps it’s us these meddlesome adults who think that all these little tiny people are unable to handle news such as the death of a parent. True, they’ve got to adjust, but somehow, I think that kids, with less well-developed emotional- um… (I don’t know how to put it), they might just prove to be more adept at handling such devastating information.
Hmm, something to chew over rite?
