A World Away

I saw the 7+ ratings and thought this would be a good movie to watch with my daughter, but I should have known better.

This is essentially an amateur family home movie ropeing in the neighbors and friends to do a weekend project, with a script written on the Saturday morning and effects finished on the Sunday night, and somehow it got released, and shouldn't have, ever.

While the film is not as bad as it could have been (the kids acting isn't great but it isn't horrible either, and the camera work is in focus and reasonably framed) it's like someone said to their neighbors "we could make a better film than half this stuff released today". then set out to prove that right, and wrong at the same time.

The story rips off The Princess Bride' kids being told a story' set up and shoehorns in some silly Sci Fi rubbish, with mostly bad american brat/nerd kid cliche characters and some of the worst special effects this side of a 90s home computer, although not all of them suck, so it makes you wonder exactly what was going on with this thing, for a second, before you regret having watched it and try to forget it.

This project should have stayed on the family hard drive for the friends to laugh at what a fun weekend they had playing film makers. Nothing wrong with that.

Maybe some of these people will go on to do low level kids TV, it's not a million miles away from the lower level stuff which should also have stayed off our screens. Good luck to them, there's nothing wrong with practicing making projects like this, but they should never be presented to a wider audience.

Unexpectedly great, warm heartfelt congratulations to the director, Mark Blanchard and his glorious cast. Thank you for the time changing trip to a world away!

Horrible special effects. The film was clearly very low budget. At one point you could hear the kids hitting their mics. There was a part with this glowing demon dog, but then it didn't show it again in the movie. It made you think there was going to be more to the story but it was poorly connected and the acting was probably better from the kids than from the adults. My kids and I agree that it was weird and a waste of time. Time for bed...

7.1??? This is so bad, everything, acting, story, script, special effects, etc, that it seems to me that they made it bad on purpose.

If you don't believe me, try and watch it. See if you can last more than 10 minutes.

No, not the movie. It is not that bad, but neither is it that good. What is "very bad, surprisingly bad" are the several glowing "10" reviews by people who only established their accounts recently to try to prop up this movie. Its IMDb rating is unrealistically high, for what it is.

This is a Mark Blanchard movie, written and directed by, and using his young children, two daughters and a son, as actors. In truth his kids are credible actors but the script is so juvenile most of the time that it comes across as a movie for very young kids. The "sci fi" aspect of it reminded me of 1950s "B" movies but with better color. The special effects are hokey.

It starts off with and ends with very silly scenes of aliens arguing with each other, and poking each other, looking like something out of Power Rangers. The middle is a flight to the Grand Canyon which goes off the radar as the small jet travels through a type of interdimensional effect where they end up in a different world that, incidentally, has two suns. Most of the kids are overly bratty and annoying, and if they are told to do something they do the exact opposite. There is an overarching message of "love being the only constant in life" but the message gets muddled by the overly silly script and silly action that pervades most of the movie.

In truth, I was somewhat entertained, some of the situations were interesting. But calling this "an award winning film" is very misleading, it is very juvenile in its approach and execution.

I watched it on Amazon streaming.