The Growing Pains Movie

The Seavers return Yes. I liked how Mike was doing Advertisements. I hated it when Jason was writing books. I am happy Mike married Kate. I liked the part when Ben was driving and got arrested. In the movie they should have had the theme song right after Jason said "Check Please. Give it to him." That is when they should have put the song. They didn't have it. This was the best movie ever. They need a sequel though. They should put it on Video and DVD.

When I saw the preview for this movie, I thought it would just be another reunion movie from an 80's television show. But when I saw this movie, I was greatly surprised. It was a great reunion of the Seaver Family. All of the original cast were great in their roles, and the plot in which Maggie runs for Congress was great. This was a great movie.

I love the Growing Pains Reunion Movie...I was also a big fan of the show growing up...it was great...I loved that Carol finally got her moment to shine...it was great to see her healthy and finally happy...Most of the people that did not like the movie didn't like the show...so why did you watch it???? I thought it was a great conclusion to the show...hey and maybe a sequel to it would not be a bad idea after all....

If you liked the series Growing Pains you will enjoy this movie. You will be surprised to see how Chrissy turned out, if you didn't like or didn't watch the series then don't bother watching this movie. If you did like this series then this movie will be worth 2 hours of your time.

Interesting movie. I sat down to watch it frankly because I enjoy the reunion shows, even though most of them are painful to watch. This one had the characters to be just that. Most of the stars have minimal work since the end of the series. That, of course, is not saying too much because this series went off the air in 1992, and just 8 years later, there is a reunion movie. I just thought "Already?" when I saw previews of this.

Anyway, this stank of being a "We're out of work and need the money" move on the part of the actors, but was really a little better than that.

Somewhere, somehow there was a plot change in this movie that completely threw the storyline into the crapper. From what I understand, originally Ben Seaver(Jeremy Miller) was to have become an alcoholic. Throw that in and some things start making a whole lot more sense. Mike was incredibly upset that he wanted to take his kids, and later had an accident because he had the music up too loud? Ben "finds" himself at the end of the movie helping people? Throw the alcoholism storyline in and the whole thing makes alot more sense. Unfortunately, I imagine that Disney was behind the removal of this plot point, and the movie suffers because of it.