Children stories that are brought to the screen are usually one way or the other, either their extremely successful or their flops. Here the problem isn't the filmmaking or the acting, it's the story itself, the injection of some very adult concepts just drive the story far over the edge of understanding for most children. What starts out as a fun children's story, with some very good looking CGI effects, fast becomes a science lesson that is even above some adults understanding.
Two young siblings find an odd box in the surf at their summer home and discover that the gifts that it offers have far reaching consequences. The storyline itself, about the relationship of the brother and sister, is fun and enjoyable to watch. But once the advanced science in entered into the story it becomes too cumbersome to follow and you soon lose interest in the outcome of the characters. The characters themselves seem a little stale, from the children to the parents to the teacher to the government officials they all seem like they have been used in other movies and just borrowed for this little tale. The CGI effects that are used here, and there aren't that many, are done well but they're repeated to often and are lost within the story that just seems to swallows them up.
If your in the right mind to explain how time travel is suppose to work and the mechanics of folding space and time in order to touch multiple timelines at the same time then you should enjoy this movie a lot. But considering the age group this story is targeted to, these concepts are a little above the normal everyday school science class. I didn't enjoy this film enough to say that its one of those hidden gems that people passed by while it was in the theaters, it just tried to give to much information for a kids film and not enough amusing things for those kids to have fun with.
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