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My wife and I watched it and liked it. We had already watched other movies of this type: New Year's Eve, Love Actually, and He's Just Not That Into You. After reading all of the negative reviews, I was prepared for a poor script and a poorly done movie. We found a pleasant movie with some humorous moments and a nice script. It wasn't crude and it wasn't stupid. If it wasn't as deep and the characters weren't as developed as in similar movies, we did not think that detracted from a nice night at a pleasant movie.





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If growing up, you didn't care for the contemporary culture around you, and you preferred the company of adults or those older than you, and you focused on some of the more serious aspects of life--or if you didn't do any of those things, but now wish that you had been that sort of person--then this is the movie for you. If you can't relate to that, then you won't like this movie.

After watching two just-released movie with big-name stars, in which the adult characters couldn't express themselves without using four-letter words and weren't able to deal with their lives in a mature, competent manner, I was ready to swear-off contemporary movies and look for David Niven and Cary Grant. Thank goodness, I gave Tadpole a try.

Oscar, known as Tadpole when he was younger, is a fifteen-year-old with a forty-year-old approach to life. He is still a fifteen-year-old in many respects, and the movie does a great job of balancing that fact with his intellectual and mature mentality. Although some who have seen the movie consider Oscar's brief encounter with an older woman a form of child abuse, there was nothing in Oscar's character to make him a victim. Fifteen was just his chronological age. If you want a movie in which the main character can express himself without swearing, likes Voltaire, has deep feelings involving unattainable love, and deals successfully with it in the end, this may be a movie that you will enjoy.

The video store where I rented this film had it shelved in the comedy section, and the box cover called Sobieski and Brooks the "new odd couple." I found this to be very misleading. When I think of Felix and Oscar, the original odd couple, I think of a very humorous film. This film, while it may have had some humor in it, was a very serious film which ended up dealing very seriously about death.

This is a good movie about the power of love, and if you are looking for a drama, I can recommend this film. However, if you are looking for a comedy, this is not the film for you.