The story of a girl who discovers that she can see everyone’s imaginary friends — and what she does with that superpower — as she embarks on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten IFs with their kids.
- Released: 2024-05-22
- Runtime: 104 minutes
- Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
- Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Cailey Fleming, John Krasinski, Fiona Shaw, Louis Gossett Jr., Bobby Moynihan, Alan Kim, Steve Carell, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Vince Vaughn, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph, Sebastian Maniscalco, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Meloni, Awkwafina, Jon Stewart, Liza Colón-Zayas
- Director: John Krasinski
Comments
- shelbythuylinh - 18 June 2024
Adorable Movie
Like John Krasinski has said in being the director over in the film it is like a live action Pixar movie. And that what if imaginary friends came up and co-existed in a sense and that their children later forgotten them and had to grow up and live in the real world.
Cailey Fleming stars as John's on screen daughter after they lost his wife and her mom to an illness and she is briefly living with her grandmother as John's character also has cancer and is getting treatment.
She sees a room that has imaginary friends and Ryan Reynolds is he one or just someone that knows about the friends as an adult as you have to see to believe it.
This was one of the now late great, Louis Gossett Jr's final film and it is dedicated to him in the end. Just think that really glad he got recognized and will be dearly missed but remembered. - Horrrormooovie - 12 June 2024
Vaguely threatening aura.
I think they were going for whimsy with this one, but I don't think it came across. And to me the whole thing felt vaguely threatening and at times a little creepy. The first encounter with the IFs is when the girl catches them spying on her. She follows them and can then hear them talking about her through the door. It feels sinister. Later she watched Ryan Reynolds's character, Calvin, sneak into a child's bedroom while they sleep. They essentially kidnap the main character and she wakes up in their lair. Calvin acts very cagey and secretive, to what purpose I don't know. I guess so that there can be some kind of a twist at the end of the movie, but it just feels wierd. The grandma character seems to have no concern that this 12 year old girl is traipsing around New York by herself. Except she's not by herself. For some reason this 12 year old is hanging out with a cagey disheveled 45 year old man in an abandoned theme park. It just feels creepy. Not whimsical. Almost all the IFs have very adult voices and often act strangely aggressively. They are also all very sad and dare I say desperate? Certainly not whimsical. At one point Calvin spies on grandma as she dances in the living room, at another point they stalk a man through the city and into a Bathroom. I did not like this movie.
