It must be me but I thought it was good but a little too long. I was getting a little buggy. I also think I would sit further back. I sat in row H and found some of the close up action difficult to watch. The storyline did have an excellent lesson built-in but I found myself thinking the same through Titanic and Rataouille... WHEN IS THIS GOING TO END! My nephew is 8 and he seemed a bit bored too. I didn't hear a lot of reaction from any of the kids.
The movie started out great. It was scary stuff and then it went south quickly. The girl gets murdered no surprise there but the whole between earth and heaven didn't work for me. Also, the mother running off to go pick apples leaving her husband and other children was bizarre. Susan Sarandon was pretty funny. Skip this one...Maybe it aligned well with the book but not having read it, I can't say. Definitely could have been great but just never developed to fruition in any direction.
This movie was absolutely FANTASTIC. I took my 7 year old nephew and he laughed hysterically at all of the antics of these 3 little squeakers. We liked it better then the first movie.
I took my 7 year old nephew and he closed his eyes during the Ghost of Marley...VERY VERY CREEPY...and the beginning scene with Marley in the casket was morbid at best. The special effects were awesome especially flying over the city....gorgeous tummy roller. I thought it could have been a bit lighter to make it a general viewing family movie and still retained the underlying lesson of the story.