every now and then i'll read a synopsis for a film
and just completely fall in love with it and feel like the film has been written
for me personally obviously that's not the case
considering this film was released the year i was born but as soon
as i heard about forever young the 1992 film
i just thought that is right up my street
and once i watched it i kind of thought right i really want to talk about this
because i need to share this film and also i just need to kind of purge my
system of the over-excitedness that i feel
about this film so if you haven't seen this film i will
do a brief spoiler-free overview of the plot
discuss the cast and the characters and how i found the narrative
so to give you a brief overview i will read the description on imdb
and then discuss whether or not i feel that that is an accurate portrayal
of what the film actually is so it says here that
during a cryogenics test a pilot frozen in 1939 awakens in 1992
but time is running out as his body starts to age rapidly
now we will say that his body doesn't start to age rapidly until about
two-thirds of the way but he is he's a pilot he's a tester
pilot and he is cryogenically frozen in 1939
just before the war starts and he is supposed to be woken up a year
or so later but one thing leads to another we find out eventually why
i won't spoil it no spoilers in this at all
he wakes up in 1992 much later than intended
and of course that that's a panic because originally he was cryogenically
frozen because something tragic happens at the
beginning and he just can't deal with it but now he's woken up and he desperately
wants to try and find his friend who cryogenically throws
him in the first place to work out what went wrong
why he was still asleep and how he gets back
because if you wake up 50 years later and you're still the same age you were
50 years ago it's going to be quite terrifying so a
lot of the film as he wakes up he enlists the help of this family i
will talk about those characters in a moment and he has to try and
find his old friend from 50 years ago and try and work out what's going on and
how to get back and that is amazing i love films
that are set let's say like back to the future where
characters get to go forward in time and see things from a different perspective
like we had with the almanac in back to the future
and it's not overly done uh there's not like a lot of interaction
with modern day objects there is a television and things and
it's done a little bit so daniel the the the man who's frozen isn't completely
clueless about the this world around him but he sees like a
mcdonald's and things and it's like you know what's going on
so it could have been done more that's one thing i will say i wish he had a bit
more interaction with the 90s and kind of things that had
changed over the over the decades but it's not a complete
absence um i've also forgot to mention who
direct this it's directed by steve miner and written by jj abrams who
is obviously a fantastic storyteller so the narrative i really like it's
right up my street it's everything i look for in a film
and i honestly couldn't have asked for more apart from maybe a bit more
interaction with the 90s emotionally it can hit you hard
it's a little bit funny mainly because of the two child the two young
characters and again i'll mention those in a minute
but the regression is great i will say the ending
no spoilers but the ending i felt was rushed i kind of understand why they
ended it when they did because it was a beautiful ending like it was powerful
but i was left feeling like i didn't know what had happened to certain other
characters and i really wanted to know so i guess i'm just left my own devices
to think about that on the note of the characters we have a
brilliant cast uh and some great characters so
captain daniel mccormick is played by mel gibson
and his performance is brilliant there's there's no fault in it
rarely is with gibson and he finds himself being assisted by
the cooper family and claire the mother is played by jamie lee curtis and
she's brilliant in it she's her interaction claire's interaction with
daniel is really good um it's not as predictable as i thought
it would be either so uh that was enjoyable to watch but
for me what made this absolutely just so
adorable is little elijah wood
who plays nat cooper who is claire's son and one of the original people who found
the cryogenic chamber and he's adorable in this he's
so cute he's really like relatable and likeable
and i like the way he interacts with daniel that's
particularly sweet and he has a friend called felix and just together they have
a great on-screen chemistry the friends work really well together
personally and the reason that i actually watched this is
george vince in this or went depending on how we're pronouncing his surname
and as a recent cheers tv show addict uh norm i yeah that's the reason why i
wanted to watch this i wanted to see him in more things and
he wasn't in it as much as i'd like to like to
as much as i'd have liked him to be in it
but when he was in it i was very happy so this film basically ticks all of the
boxes it great plot very good narrative
development um the characters are really likable
the cast fantastic great performances all around
as i said the contrast between 39 and 92 were not as strong as i would have liked
but it didn't detract from the quality of the narrative
as i said as well the ending the ending wasn't perfect
but it was still pretty good and once i finished watching this film i
thought i really really want to talk about this
so if you've seen it please do let me know what you think of it because
i thought it was truly fantastic let me know if you've seen it
and if you know of any other films that are like this as well
please do feel free to let me know because i would love to see them