Throughout the first part, I thought, "Oh, that old Spielberg magic is back." He took the simple suburban family and threw in a complication. That's what he always does. But then, with all the rules about mechas and what they could and couldn't do, he'd boxed himself into a creative corner. What was the point of David's quest? To find that Blue Fairy? To reconnect w/him mom who threw him out? Huh!?!?!? Spielberg didn't know what to do after that, how to resolve the movie, so it went on and on and on and on and on and became pointless and nonsensical. Everyone in the theater where I was kept shifting, waiting to get up, but every time they thought it was gonna end, it didn't.
Hopefully he will do a much better job with "Memoirs of a Geisha."
