this movie have some good moment and a great start . i have forget that penny marshall direct it and when it end and her name be up there i be surprise and even more disappointed . the script be too thin and trite and predictable . there be far to many moment in it that seem hollow . love mika boorem at the beginning . her performance in heart in atlantis be part of my impetus to see it . heart in atlantis have an esp element in it plot and still manage to seem more true to life than this cartoon . oh well .