Lady in the Water (2006)

not as good as all the hype

Best movie ever!

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

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I have read countless reviews of this movie and it makes me so happy that M has gotten the best of so many people with this movie. The simplicity is the genius behind it. The story and the characters are so much more complex than what you can gather from watching it. It requires one thing to watch a movie and understand what's happening and that's a willing suspension of disbelief. This movie requires two - WSD and Willingness to Understand something you can't actually see because you are distracted by the movie itself looking and seeming dull and uninvolved.THE COVE - is the place where damaged and strange outcasts all wind up (a cove by definition is a small SHELTERED bay) Mr. HEEP - (heap - a messy pile or great amount of stress put upon someone) Harry Farber - Cleveland's emptiness & loneliness unimpressed and uninvolved Story - Cleveland's fragile faith in god or love or life needing to be savedThese are just a FRACTION of the subtle genius in this film.Spend some time considering that this movie is probably one of the most well- developed and thoughtful ideas every put on screen. The only issue is that M's vision was so advanced not everyone can see it.

I have always loved this movie---and all M Night movies---because I like that they are suspenseful, but not gory and bloody. Our 2 ten year olds and thirteen year old watched this for family movie night---and they were on the edge of their seats loving it. It made them think and guess at what was happening, without being overly violent. They were really intrigued about the idea of it being a bedtime story and were very interested to find out if it was a real story or not.I feel like all of his movies have such a great message just below the sruface---and this one was about faith, healing, and love. It reminded me of Signs at the end--it has a hopeful feel to it.

No intentional spoilers.So underrated. I'm not quite sure why this gets panned so hard.The title of my review is how I sum up this movie. A bunch of misfits, each with their own special gifts, fight dark forces to save a creature out of fantasy who inexplicably lands in their midst.It's a fantasy set in an ordinary place with ordinary people, but at the end of it all, nothing is ordinary. And I don't mean there's a twist ending, there isn't. I just saw this place and these people differently at the end, and it was such a wonderful thing.Look at the cast! Amazing! James Newton Howard's score was impressive and moving, too. M. Night has made his mistakes, I agree, but this isn't one of them. This is a beautiful movie. Open your mind and your heart and check this one out.Edit: After I wrote my review, I read a few other peoples'. (I try not to read other reviews before writing my own.) This movie was severely polarized between people who really enjoyed this movie and those who really didn't! At least for most people who wrote reviews.The people who didn't like the movie tended to use words like "boring" and "contrived." People who enjoyed the movie seemed to really like the characters and the overall story.Draw your own conclusions from that. I just thought that was really interesting.

This fantasy film talks about the appearance of a sea nymph in the pool of an apartment complex where Cleveland is caretaker. The nymph, Story, will then change the lives of all residents, need to help them to fulfill her mission and return to her world. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan (who also is one of the leading roles), has Bryce Dallas Howard as the protagonist. M. Night Shyamalan has accustomed us to stories with a touch of fantasy and imagination. Its as if this remarkable filmmaker refused to grow and would like to make his films with the imagination of a child playing with a camera. And, in this movie, its pretty much what happens, having himself gone head to the front of them and "playing" with the story that he's creating (as he also wrote the script). But don't think that this movie is bad. It's a good movie has touching scenes and reaches the audience for our children's side, the child that we all have within us. We would like that the plot was real and could be a creature so kind and innocent as that nymph. We would like to see people collaborate as in the movie on several occasions. And that makes us enjoy the film.