My Brother the Pig

OK-- so rented this because my son loves pigs and I love Eva Mendes, and I have to tell you I actually enjoyed it with my kids and laughed (out loud) twice and that's a lot for me.

This movie is a surprise and a lot better then many films that I've rented with my kids (and I've seen them all). Does anyone know if this was in the theaters--it looks feature budget and score is great.

Rent it and be surprised--not you usually stupid family fare. There are some lines that are very adult, but they went over my kids' heads and I laughed out loud. Scarlett Johannssen rocks too in this film and looks amazing!

I spent about a week of time downloading this film, knowing that such old films are mostly out of sources now. I saw the low rating of it on IMDb and I only thought that people might have underrated that film. I didn't expect it to be a great one like other movies with the little goddess in, such as "The horse whisperer" or "Manny & Lo", but I still paid that much efforts downloading it because my goddess was the #1 on the cast list, but only to disappoint myself a bit later. The film is basically worthless, and even my goddess's performance didn't contain any spectacle worth speaking of. The part I hated most while watching that film was when my goddess was looking for a "bathroom", walking gingerly with both hands gripping her pubic area... which was downright nasty and disgusting, IMHO. Yet she began dancing vivaciously right after a bath somehow.

It was only her brother "George" that was incarnated into a pig, but it seemed like each character in that film had got his/her brain transformed into a pig's, IMHO. The whole movie was pretty stupid, and rather childish even by a child's standard.

I was looking for Scarlett Johansson movies that I haven't watched and came across this one streaming on U-tube. It in general deserves its low rating, it isn't a particularly good movie, but it doesn't deserve the approximately 25% votes of "1" in the IMDb. I'd suggest "4" or "5" is more appropriate. It does have some redeeming qualities and seems mostly to be a kids' movie.

This came out right after her break-out role in "The Horse Whisperer", and of course now in 2023 we can look back at the large number of feature roles she has had. She has become a genuine movie star. So it was fun seeing her when she was about 14.

Her family lives in the L. A. area, she has a very annoying younger brother who often acts like a pig at home, his eating habits, his tendency to make messes. They also have a 25-yr-old nanny who is from a family in Mexico. When the parents leave for a trip bicycling across the French wine country, the kids run a bit wild.

The big event is when the brother goes into the nanny's room without permission, encounters some ancient voodoo artifacts, and is turned into a real pig, a juvenile one. So it turns out the only hope for a remedy is the take a road trip back to Mexico, to see if her old grandma can work her magic and turn him back before the parents return. And avoiding the local butcher as they go along.

Yes, much of the movie is very silly, and although they get into many binds most of them aren't that funny. The final scene isn't particularly funny or touching. But it was entertaining enough (on a rainy day inside) to see Johansson in a very early role.

I rented this from the "family" section of my local video store, and much to my dismay, there was a large amount of foul language coming from the mouth of Scarlett Johansen. Her (and the rest of the cast's) acting was far below her performance in The Horse Whisperer a year prior. The only similarity is that once again she plays a teen with a bad attitude that gets overcome in the end. The plot might have been written by my 2 year old. It became painful to watch after a while, but my kids insisted on watching it to the end (we had to keep saying, "oh that's a bad word!" as the language was inappropriate for the under 13 crowd. Absolutely a waste of a dollar to rent!

This isn't brain surgery, but it was really fun to watch with my family on Amazon. We thought the cast was really good and it seems everyone is in this movie. Stupid, silly, clever and laughing out loud a few times. Eva Mendez is great. Scarlett Johannson is really spot on too. The pig is cute and my girls loved the kid playing the smart kid. All and all a really fun movie for a Saturday night at home. A popcorn family movie. This is one we will watch again. The ending looks a little low budget but the rest looks good! What ever happened to Judge Reinhold?

My kids wanted to watch it right away, but that's what they like. There's a part in the movie where the main girl changes her approach and my kids really felt good about here from that moment on.