Azlan Lewis This is supposed to be a Children's movie, well I wouldn't let a child watch this, bad script, very bad acting fills this movie. Jim Henson's creature shop was used for the creature Mee-Shee, which was a travesty to the work they have done previously.The adults are condescending to the children constantly and they do not act as adult would towards children in their care. Mac's father, the man in-charge of recovering the drill bit, just leaves his son in the care of a bad impression of Mrs. Doubtfire who tries extolling the same platitudes. Also the D.F.E.A agent ( Canadian Evironmental Officer) takes the two kids to where they saw Mee-Shee and then just leaves the boy to fend for himself while taking Pawnee with her.The script is very weak. The lines written for children are limited and not very deep. Also several actors can not pronounce the movie/creature's name and say Mishee or even mitchee, both children and adult actors seem to have this problem.There is a fight between Mac's father and one of the villains, I've seen two year old children fight better then this their punches are so choreographed it's as if they used string to show where they should land them.All around if I were anyone connected with this movie I would have asked my name be removed from it. The script is bad and many things happen that do not make sense, people allowed to use machinery they have no experience with, a million dollar sub guarded by a man as old as Moses, the villain's sub is worth more than the the "good guys" sub yet the villain's partner is bewildered by equipment on the sub.An interesting point in this movie is the boy has a baseball cap that must be glued on with super glue. He falls down cliff holes, lands in water (twice) yet the cap never falls off or is lost. I said it was an interesting point, it should be said it's the only point.I would not waste your time or your children's time in watching this bad move. The native girl is given the name Pawnee which is racially offensive. At the end of the movie it teaches the that it is good to lie about something.

Simon Peters Poor casting, intermittent periods where the film treads water with overlong pictures of the scenery, and a lack of anyone in the cast to empathise with, render this a dreary experience. Edited with no sense of timing and with unmemorable music laid on with a trowel, the performances are unable to engage or sustain one's attention. The biggest drawback is that there is nobody one likes - the hero is the American equivalent of a shop dummy in a Cecil Gee window, the son is blank faced except when he is petulant. Custer is inscrutable and a boring character. The villains are cardboard cutouts, and the mad woman of the hills is alarming and repellent.Custer's daughter is the only bright spark in the film, and acts everyone else off the screen, not that that was hard to do.The Henson Creature Shop shut up shop in London shortly after this film was made; maybe they had lost heart when they saw it.One to miss.

1negevoli I enjoyed Mee-Shee, except when the lame and talentless child actor called it Mishee. You'd think he'd be able to pronounce the name of the movie correctly but, honestly, he is so bad maybe that's not something he can do. Loved Bruce Greenwood, as always. And as usual, he it too good for the material and his poker-faced co-star.(The New Zealand scenery, filling in for Canada, makes me crazy to want to go there.)Whenever I see a child actor this bad I always wonder which of the producers he belongs to. The kid never changed expression, even when facing down a water "monster," as far as he knows.I really recommend everybody see this film just so they can catch probably the worst child actor ever. The little dude didn't even try.This could have been much better without the kid who played the kid.

dbborroughs Young boy who was suppose to go on vacation with his dad finds that his plans are changed when his dad's business send them to a remote Canadian lake where a helicopter crashed. Once there he's left to his own devices as his dad tries to recover the chopper and what it was carrying. In the process he discovers the tales of a monster living in the lake are true.Sweet family film with a creature by the Henson Creature Shop. I'm guessing that most adults are going to find this a quaint little film thats very much like the films they saw growing up. I'll also wager that most young kids are going to eat this up, which isn't surprising since this is actually a pretty good movie that, while probably not memorable, isn't something that you're going to go wandering off while its on. Yea, its a movie that both kids and parents are going to enjoy.I liked it and can honestly say that if you end up seeing it you'll probably like it too.