Bardlerx Strictly average movie

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Irishchatter I only wanted to get watching this movie in 2015 because it looked different and of course seeing Sigourney Weaver in this. She was really sexy in this like even if she was probably in her late or less 30's. I was kinda disappointed that this comedy was boring and annoying, it was such a light hearted comedy that really seemed like it was chucked in the bin and forgotten about. I suppose really, you don't hear people talking about this ever since so it's not a popular nor the best movie to gab out anyway! Aaron Stanford did look the part at playing smart preppy boy. Although I thought when seeing his scene's, he didn't look like he wants to be in the movie. It sometimes gives you a cringe as he didn't seem to be himself.

intelearts ONe of the better slices of irony seen in a while that bears more than a passing resemblance to Woody Allen (If it were a girl gunning for her stepfather then you really would say it was obvious).Oscar is 15, trying to be cool and an intellectual, a fogey, and a lot of the humor comes from his pseudo-deep insights on life and Voltaire. Voltaire is no coincidence: Candide is Oscar in parts. Oscar wants the ideal - just in this case the ideal is Eva - his stepmother.A lot of this works because of the characterization and chemistry - Oscar fins himself caught in others' webs, but is somehow a good mix of mature and innocent that works well.All in all a nice effort, it never really bites and thus given the material and nature of the film fails to really skewer the comedy and ends up almost a nostalgic look at how 15 year old boys wish love could have been.Funny in parts and wistful this is a nice film about adult relationships.

gary-teal-1 I would give this movie a lower rating if I weren't open to cerebral, NYC upper-class intellectual tales. I think the lower ratings may be given by some reviewers who are more attracted to a farcical coming-of-age movie like Risky Business or similar. Okay, that was insulting, but I want to say that this was a very nuanced film with a superb script, delivered by excellent actors who didn't miss a note.It is especially noteworthy that Ritter and Weaver and Neuwirth are known for comedic performances and I was never reminded of that during the film. If you have enjoyed any of Bill Murray's latest "smart" movies, you should watch this movie to see an entire cast pull off the same trick, with some of the credit undoubtedly due to the director.That's not to say this is a tragedy or a movie that takes itself too seriously - no symbolism, no dramatic cinematography. There are no surprise plot twists -- it's a genre movie, and there's plenty of room to smile when you sympathize with several of the actors at various points. We're caught up in the kind of performance that makes you hurt along with the characters even though the plot is one of the oldest there is.

Claudio Carvalho Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford) is a fifteen years old French student, who lives in USA, and spends the Thanksgiving with his father Stanley Grubman (John Ritter) and his stepmother Eve (Sigourney Weaver) in their apartment in New York. His mother is French and lives in France. Oscar is very precocious, cultured, polyglot and loves poetry, and he finds the girls of his age very silly, feeling a great attraction for older women. Oscar has a crush on his stepmother. However, her forty and something years best friend Diane Lodder (Bebe Neuwirth) has an affair with Oscar, and he becomes quite confused with this new situation. "Tadpole" is a reasonable comedy only, having some funny situations, but never reaching a target, having a terrible conclusion. When the viewer finishes watching the film, he will certainly ask: -What is the point? Further, in accordance with the information in IMDb, Aaron Stanford was born in 1977. Therefore, he was completely miscast, being twenty-five years old and pretending he is fifteen. Further, he is not charismatic as his character would require. John Ritter is a reasonable actor, but looks very snob in the role of a history professor of Columbia. Sigourney Weaver is lost, in a character who is neither "Mrs. Robinson" nor an example of a faithful wife. The best parts of the story belong to Bebe Neuwirth, who is amazingly funny and makes the film worth, together with its soundtrack. In summary, "Tadpole" is a forgettable entertainment, recommended for killing time. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Um Jovem Sedutor" ("A Young Seducer")