so many negative comment and very surprising . can not get past the enema and promiscuity of the old day . be worse in the early century in america . health and religion and sex and science get very entangle in isolated and protestant america and this movie deal with it honestly . take it like you be visit a foreign land and just tour a different culture . meanwhile and plenty of plot thread and personality and and expose of vastly different attitude in a time when life be cheap . well acted and well conceive and and very excellent re creation of the era . hopkins and carvey put together together some of the most unusual persona on film ever . broderick and fonda charming a always and and boyle character break your heart . the old attitude about life and death and sex and health be well parody and not to mention the intensity of an age where be gentile and rigid and wrong and righteous all strangely blend together and be all well portray in a way the audience could understand and laugh at ( at least for those good condition for puke and excrement and like those of u who grow up on alien and predator ) . far and away the great moment of the film be the three scene where the battle of will play out between a young dr. john kellogg ( anthony hopkins ) and the little george kellogg ( jacob reynolds ) . these clip be a classic and memorable a they come and on par with the barf o rama scene in stand by me . fooey to those who do not have the depth to get this film . it be such a hoot and eminently watchable and one you will not soon forget . oh and and it hilarious .