Kaitlyn This is a wonderful movie! I would recommend this to family's and with friends to watch it.This was touching Magorium was so old but why did he have to die at that time at first I thought it could possibly be a joke but when it came to the stage of the funeral it was touchy.Firstly to point out my favourite character in this story is Eric its sad how he can't make friends because of his personality and love of his hat collection because mostly people don't really where hats every day unless it was a special accasion to wear it everyday.There's no problems with this movie it was just amazing watching it with my friends!I loved the part when they had a system that lets you go to any room and I loved the bouncy ball room.

TheBlueHairedLawyer This movie seems really cheesy and silly watching it as an adult, but it came out when I was a kid and tells the story of how everyone needs some imagination in their life. It's slightly strange and it's like the son of Opal Dream and Charlie & the Chocolate factory, in a sense.The plot follows an array of characters: A washed up child prodigy who now manages a toy store at the age of twenty three, a little boy who collects assorted hats but has trouble making friends, an accountant who has a rather dull outlook on life and Mr. Magorium, an eccentric, elderly man who set up the world's "most fabulous" toy store (but can it compete with Toys R' Us? >:) The toy store has an assortment of children coming in at different hours of the day, either to buy toys or just to play with them. The problem is, Magorium claims to be 200-some years old, and ready to be maggot-food. Molly (the former child prodigy) tries to do everything in her power to prevent this. Meanwhile, the hat-collecting boy, Eric, takes his mom's advice on making a new friend, and befriends the accountant.I don't know why, but Molly was a character I didn't really like very much. She seemed really self-absorbed. She's mad that she works at a toy store instead of a concert hall. Well, I wanted to be an actor or cop, but I publish books instead. And I'm grateful I have a job, a lot of people don't have any job at all. I realize that Molly was a character with a dream in life and all that stuff, but it's hard to sympathize when your province's economy is going down the tubes and jobs are hard to get in reality. She got more likable as the movie went on though. Magorium was like Willy Wonka mixed with Dumbledore, or "the man behind the curtain" in The Wizard of Oz. He's responsible for the magic in the toy store and he provides it with life... or so everyone thinks. Eric is the small, almost nerdy little boy often in this genre of film; had this been filmed in the 90's they probably would've hired Macaulay Culkin or Marc Marut to play his role instead. The accountant, he's overly boring in an obvious attempt to hide anything individual about the character until the later half of the movie.This is a very strange but likable movie, at least for kids. I'm sure many adults could find a lot about it to enjoy, whether it be the nostalgic commercial toys, a crazy old man dancing on bubble wrap like an idiot, a fat boy being squashed by a rubber ball or a toy store harassing people when it gets mad.

slightlymad22 I caught this movie on TV with my 8 year old son the other day.Molly Mahoney (Natalie Portman) is the manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, an awesome toy store owned by Mr. Edward Magorium. One of the regular costumers is the lonely boy called Eric, who has only Molly and Mr. Magorium for friends. Mr. Magorium hires the accountant, Henry Weston (Jason Bateman) to sort out the accounts of the Emporium. Furthermore, he asks Henry to transfer the Emporium to Molly's name upon his death. Hoffman seems to be having a lot of fun behind Mr. Magorium's hairdo, bushy eyebrows and lisping vocals. Natalie Portman (who learned to play the piano for her role) is lovely and has a permanent sparkle in her eye.Jason Bateman is Jason Bateman, much like Ben Stiller always plays the same type of Ben Stiller type characters, with the exception of Zoolander and Dodgeball. But Bateman doesn't have a Zoolander or Dodgeball character in his filmography, and the characters he plays all seem to blend in to one. I don't understand all the negative comments about this movie, as both me and my son enjoyed it. Portman and Hoffman are always worth watching, and I'm puzzled as to why it has taken me so long to watch it.

aboy_tom (I don't know if it was a spoiler and this is my first time review)I could see that there were negative reviews. Its makes me heartbroken about it because people say that its only for kids. That is untrue it is for any range of age.This movies explore the everyday means of magic aka believing.Also I could feel messages coming out of the movie. For example its alright if your old and play toys, nothing wrong with your childish side.This movie is brilliant and had been misjudged. The characters in the story fit with the plot.Even if it has a childish vibe to it, nothing wrong with it.One word I have to conclude to it ..... ..... Magical!