Predictable and safe film. I feel like a lot of positive reviews liked it for its simple message and feel good story. Easy to have on in the background or watch on a rainy day.

Having said that, I liked how the movie showed each family member's day. The issue was it was clear things got difficult to cover everyone. I think I was over 2/3rds of the way through the movie before they introduced the last child who I had pretty much forgot about. I feel bad for the actor, it felt very much like his parts were cut or were kept to minimum. Almost as if a fifth member was needed to hit a specific runtime by padding the story a little more.


The looming "threat" was never clear and felt super vague. Again, great for a child's movie but an eye roll for adults. If they use the power too much it will break, but then near the end of the movie they cut to a [spoiler]montage of wasted days[/spoiler] like they were giving up or didn't take the immediate concern seriously. If they didn't, why should we as the audience?

Lastly, realistically, it didn't feel like the issues they kept experiencing were ever really resolved. If it wasn't that day, then the next day or even the next week [spoiler]the dad would find out about the hot guy in the mom's class being flirtly and/or the mom would find out about the dad looking at "bachelor pads". It didn't happen that day in the final take, but the film showed us multiple times when either parent eventually found out everything fell apart. Seems like that is/was the reality, their marriage was doomed. Instead they slapped a happy ending (just don't think about it) on to the movie.[/spoiler]