A little help full movie online

A little help full movie online

A woman gets entangled in a series of bizarre lies in order to take care of herself and her 12 year old son.A woman gets entangled in a series of bizarre lies in order to take care of herself and her 12 year old son.The main failing of A LITTLE HELP is, in some part, Jenna Fischer herself. Or, rather, it's the role she is given. She plays the part well enough, but the character is written in such an inconsistent manner that there are times when she, through no fault of her own, seems to be playing it in a far too likeable manner. The opening shot is from the point of view of one of her patients as a dental hygienist. She's pleasant and cheerful; when she starts to cry at the end, you feel for her. But after she leaves the job, argues with her kid, et cetera, she starts to be one drinking problem short of a pathetic character. Then when she gets home she starts drinking.

It's a problem throughout the film, and it strikes me as odd considering none of the other ch aracters have the same problem. Granted, it's because most of them are fairly shallow to begin with, but her brother-in-law Paul (Rob Benedict of the show "Threshold") has a decent amount of depth and consistency to him. Fischer's character, Laura, is the only one with this problem. Once the film gets going it wouldn't be as noticeable except for one of the story arcs involving her son. She allows, and even helps perpetuate, a lie he tells at school. In the context of when the movie was made it isn't AS bad, but in the context of when it takes place it's appalling, and kept me from really sympathizing with her for much of the film.
The scenes between Laura and Paul are the film's highlights. They have really good chemistry together, and the way their story played out resonated a great deal with me. If the film were built around their relationship rather than Laura's life as a whole, I think the film would have been much better. As it stands, it is still well made, and well acted, but with a central character that is too inconsistent to get behind.

After seeing "Mars Need Moms," children may need a therapist.

The movie takes place on Mars where females dominate, ruled by a ruthless despot, while males have been relegated to a subterranean trash heap. Martian babies, meanwhile, emerge out of the ground like sea turtles and get mothered by nanny-bots. To supply the machines with maternal skills such as discipline, the Martians abduct mothers from Earth, extract these skills and then vaporize the women. Happy times.

No, this isn't a horror film. Well, at least not inte ntionally. This is an animated Disney film. At least the studio continues its decades-long practice of traumatizing children by eradicating mothers. Care to watch "Bambi," son?

Fear not, though, the film actually comes with a pro-mom message. As such, if your charges don't mind watching a mother get obliterated, they may come away from the movie with a better appreciation of mater familias.

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