Review of Forever Young (1992) by Amanda B — 18 Nov 2007

This romantic fantasy works as a comedic adventure and a gentle tearjerker thanks to Mel Gibson's appealing performance. He plays Daniel, a daring test pi...( read more )lot who is deeply distraught by the apparent death of his girlfriend, Helen, in 1939.

Feeling little reason to live, he volunteers for a pioneering cryogenics experiment and is thawed out 50 years later by two young boys. They bring the confused pilot home to Nat's single mom, Claire (Jamie Lee Curtis).

There's a hint of romance, but Daniel desperately needs to know if Helen really died in 1939, and he discovers that love has a way of surviving a half-century leap in time. certain plot details are conveniently ignored, but Gibson, Curtis, and Elijah Wood (as Nat) hold it together with irresistible charm and just the right balance of fantasy and drama.

I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed this movie. I love anything with mel in it but little Elijah is cute as and he absolutely brilliant in this. If you have n'y seen this, then you really should.

Word of warning...gentle tearjerker it's not! I cried my eyes out at the end and I knew what was coming!