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Second Hand Lions is one of those films released every year at about this time that has for-your-consideration Oscar advertisements written all over it. After all, it stars Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, and a now fifteen-year-old Haley Joel Osment. But most critics are unimpressed. Lou Lumenick in the New York Post is particularly unimpressed with Osment, who, he says, "has entered the sort of awkward adolescence that afflicts so many male child stars -- and seems utterly intimidated by his esteemed co-stars." Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post calls the movie, "an exceptionally flimsy whimsy. It squanders a brilliant cast as it teaches somewhat dubious lessons in a thinly imagined, poorly thought-out plot." Jan Stuart in Newsday calls it a "wall-to-wall corn fest." And Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer describes it as "edgeless as a marshmallow and twice as syrupy." |
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