DISNEY TUCKS TEENS!

Tuck Everlasting is a new Disney film targeted toward Fred Durst and other teenage girls, as made obvious by the soft-lit poster featuring Jonathan Jackson (the Teen Beat hunk) and Alexis Bledel. The story itself is not bad. A typical girl (Bledel) raised in a wealthy family rebels against what her parents want her to become-- a proper rich girl. She is chastised by her mother for wanting to do such “savage” acts as playing baseball and lying in a field! She runs away to explore the forest by her house, where she comes across Jessie Tuck (Jackson) drinking from a spring. She is taken prisoner by the Tuck family to hide their apparent immortality (via the spring water). This is a fact that I would normally be hesitant to reveal in a review, but the title Tuck Everlasting gives the game away. Solid performances from Ben Kingsley (as the man hunting for the Tucks), and Sissy Spacek and William Hurt (as Jessie’s mother and father) help make the film enjoyable. Bledel does a fine job holding the film together, but Jackson seems to have been cast just for the little girls to swoon at. Scott Bairstow portrays Miles Tuck, Jesse's older brother, and chews the scenery up going on and on about the terrible tragedy he's endured, having outlived his wife and kids. Yeah, I'm sure it's no fun, but he’s such a little bitch about it. In all, Tuck Everlasting is the kind of movie to watch on a lazy Sunday afternoon if there is nothing better on. There’s no real reason to spend movie-going money on it unless you're a teenage girl.