Little Bigfoot (1997)

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

A suburban family vacationing in the Oregon wilderness befriends a vomitably adorable baby Bigfoot (who looks like a squat, wizened old Chinese man) and its benevolent ape-like mommy, whose natural environment is being destroyed by an evil, greedy logging company. Art Camacho's soft-hearted direction does nothing to improve on Richard A. Preston's ungodly script, which wallows in abhorrently glutinous mush, resorts to all-thumbs moronic slapstick humor at regular intervals, and even makes a few clumsy attempts at topicality (besides the painfully overstated anti-deforestation theme, we also got a single mom trying desperately to raise three unruly teenagers on her own). Worse yet, the screenplay grossly overplays its hand with a strident and unsubtle "protect the environment" treehugger propaganda agenda (the baby Bigfoot at one point actually cries when it comes across a bunch of tree stumps!). The characters in particular are laboriously drawn: the good guys are disgustingly sticky-sweet, pure of heart and well-meaning to the point of total obnoxiousness while the villains are hard-drinking, trigger happy, brutish'n'boorish macho louts (one even sports a piratical eyepatch!). The cast gets horribly misused as well: "Halloween" strangulation victim P.J. Soles appears haggard and worn-out as the harried, but caring single mother, Matt McCoy nerds it up something annoying as a nice guy sheriff, Kenneth Tiger does far too much one-note snarling and sneering as the callous, mean-spirited logging company owner, and a pale, raspy, way past his prime Don Stroud seems very ill at ease as a jerky logging foreman. Ken Blakely's dewy, honey-hued cinematography, Louis Febre's sub-John Williams orchestral sap score, and the hideously fake Sasquatchs further contribute to this bomb's overall shoddy quality.

Pretty good for a family movie-ya some cheesy parts, but what can you expect? I thought that the animatronics where pretty good considering it was made in 1998. The story line could have been better, but like I stated, it is just a mind-less family movie. The mom and daughter looked a lot alike and the best parts where with the family-also some good action parts. Either way it was a good movie for what I was expecting. I would see it again and since it is on HBO a lot where I live I will. See the movie and then decide for yourself-not everyone will like it, but it is good clean, mindless entertainment that does not require deep thinking, just a deep bag of popcorn. Not much else to say, but little big foot is pretty good.

Little Bigfoot is a small but warm tale of a family trip that turns into a quest to save a small creature from a certain fate. The characters are well thought-out and acted. The writing is clever and the director did a great job at telling the story with a stylish touch. This film proves that you don't need to have several million dollars to create a good film. This film really does have something everybody, not just kids. The film's antagonists aren't just some stick figure villains you see in so many movies. They are real people concerned with real problems and their motivations stem from this. The kids are real. They aren't precocious. They are just real kids. One of the highlights is pre-Baywatch Kelly Packard. She's a tremendously underrated actress. She's not only great to watch but her performance is wonderful.

Exactly as you'd expect. A youngster adopts a baby bigfoot, only to find himself in grave danger from a gang of bad old thugs determined to snatch his new friend. The same as many films before and since, which can't achieve its aspiration of matching Harry and the Hendersons - and that's saying something.