the less i like it . first off these parent do not act like parent . they show no real concern for what be happen to their child . when the boy teach spider to create the bridge and especially after a lifetime a a mediocre student and i would have him off to a psychiatrist and pronto . secondly the irritating science teacher . i despise the fuzzy and magical thinking him and his girlfriend espouse . any science teacher spout that crap need to be fire . third the irritate girlfriend of the science teacher . who honestly believe in palmistry in this day and age . fourth michael clark duncan really and what the heck . after everything that happen and everything he know and he just walk away . give me a break . in this day and age and any fbi or cia or nsa or men in black operative who walk away and would be fire and charge with dereliction of duty . fifth the detention facility the family be take too . only one camera in the whole place . nothing be secure . no guard . sixth a ten year old drive a big van . in seattle . two kid beside the road in the middle of nowhere for an extended time . nobody come by at all . seventh the science teacher and his dream . why the heck be he have dream about what the kid be do . he hasn not be expose to the toy . those be just some of the major problem with this mockery of the wonderful lewis padgett ( kuttner and moore ) story from the 1940s .