This has got to be one of the worst movies I've ever watched. I could barely sit through it, but out of fairness, since I new I had to mention how bad it was on here, I did. Lots of bad acting, with worse acting from the lesser qualified "actors" involved, this movie is pretty damn bad. Any of the people in this movie's comments that days its even approaching 'okay' is lying out their rear. It was pathetic, it hurt me to even watch. I feel embarrassed for the couple normally decent actors involved. I realize I'm an adult, but I haven't forgotten the kid/teen movies I watched when I was younger. I mean we had lots of cheesy flicks, sure, but this wasn't even cheese, it was crap, like post-digestion cheese after its sat around in ones stomach for 48 hours and is ready to be expelled. You're better off missing this, with its horrific (even for 2001) blue screen special effects. Cliché for Disney plot, and sub par acting.Want me to describe this flick in one line? Move along, there's nothing to see here... (envision a cop trying to hide the dead body under the sheet...thats this film). Intentionally subjecting yourself to this film is an absurd self-flagellation that everyone should avoid if at all possible. If it is for your kid, go rent them Zapped or The Explorers. If you require something of Irish for your sustenance go for Darby O'Gill and the Little People, you'll thank yourself for missing this.

I love this movie...try to watch it whenever it's on the Disney Channel. Being Irish I enjoy the little nuances they bring to the film, and the cast does an excellant job. It's a great family film, and it serves perfectly as an annual holiday (St. Patrick's Day)special treat. Oh, and the backgrounds in the outdoor scenes are breathtaking!

I don't know what to think of this movie. Well, other than the fact that it's God-awful. It's amazing, in fact, that it finds a way to suck on so many levels. It's a triumph in sucktitude, if you will. But I'm still not sure if it can be called a "movie," seeing as it seems more like a pro-patriotism propaganda film, stolen verbatim from WW2 era movies of the same type and modernized, with horribly funny effects.You think I'm kidding? Watch this movie, you can see in your head the MST3K crew cracking jokes at scene after unintentionally hilarious scene; mainly because the jokes are so easy to write. Every scene, in fact, ends up being one characters lecture on what being an American really means. They do a God-awful job at being subtle and the lead characters role, I think, is to play the dumbest man in the universe, just so the other characters can explain to him how great America is. I can save you some time and write you a sample scene, seeing as they're all the same, I'll only have to write one:Irish kid: Boy, life is hard!Black girl: You never learn! When the Irish came to America they had to get jobs nobody else would take, for little to no-pay, and they had to live in very poor housing, and it would snow on them wherever they went, and evil Americans would release raccoons into their pants while they slept!Irish kid: Duhhhmmmm...really!?!?!?! I never knew the Irish had it so amazingly hard! Old Irish Grandfather: Aye, I'm stereotypical Irish guy. I have an accent not even a man of Irish decent would have. Let's follow this rainbow to the gold!Black boy: Rainbows don't really exist! They're just light refracting off the water in the air.Old Irish Grandfather: Ah lad, you some sort of scientist or something?Black boy: No, but I hope to be one someday, in this America, land of the free, home of the brave, where opportunity is abundant and racism doesn't exist, look at me everybody I'm black and I can be a scientist. I am making a stern statement in this movie!(END SCENE)I'm not exaggerating. And the end is what comical dreams are made of. The main character is on a stage in front of his school, dancing an Irish jig, and singing "America the Beautiful." The other characters come to join him - I was crying tears of joy.The filming is standard, looks like everything else on the Disney channel. But the script is inept in so many ways in makes one think, how many monkeys on type writers would it take to make THIS script? It's like they wrote down "AMERICA IS THE BESTEST LAND EVER", and then ran it through some Disney magic and called it a day. I can only imagine the producers, with their curly beards and cigars, looking like the producers in Barton Fink, as they pound their fists on desks, make snide remarks and roll this movie into production as they scream, "Brilliant, the kid's will eat it right up." Oh yes - Disney is that evil

Honestly this movie was not that good. I had looked foward to watching it, but was highly disapointed. It's kind of stupid, his friends act so casual when he shrinks, and grows leprechaun ears! I mean come on, the mom is 5 inches tall and friend just acts like. "Is that you?" I would only give this movie about 3/10 stars.