Mr. Magorium e la bottega delle meraviglie

Cherishing the Fantasy in 6-Year-Olds of All Ages

“Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium” is the only family film I can recall whose title character muses out loud about “King Lear” and the finality of death in language that wouldn’t be out of place in a college Shakespeare course.
What does King Lear have to do with Mr. Magorium (Dustin Hoffman), the 243-year-old proprietor of a magic toy store that opened its doors 114 years ago? You could describe them both as crazy sane. Mr. Magorium’s high-flown tangents suggest that the movie, a fantasy pitched mostly to 6-year-olds, also seeks to impress their 60-year-old grandparents with its zany erudition. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (3865 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 14 novembre 2007