1996 Directed by Bob Hoskins
Four kids and a dog embark on the adventure of a lifetime -- the search for the end of the Rainbow. With the aid of computers and an irrepressible belief, they achieve the impossible, finding and riding the multicolored arc.
I might go back and raise this a half star higher just for weirdness but it's a fairly inert, slowly paced film about this magic loving kid who one day sees a rainbow falling to Earth and ends up becoming obsessed with trying to catch one. He and his older brother and his two friends end up riding one (!!!) and then the brother steals a piece of the rainbow that the kid caught (the one that fell to Earth) and apparently this has the net effect of blotting out the sunlight and draining the Earth of all its colors. (It's not black and white, just everything''s shot to look a lot more muted)
It's different enough to be interesting,…
Is this a movie about being gay or is it a movie about being from jersey, making a rainbow, and ending up in Kansas. TRULY THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO INTERPRET THE MOVIE RAINBOW! No matter your take, the dog will follow you. RIP BOB HOSKINS!
edit: this is a disaster movie for kids. you heard me. Disaster movie FOR KIDS.
The film that essentially killed Bob Hoskins directing career dead in its tracks. God only knows what motivated him to sign on to this family fantasy in the first place. Piles and piles of money, I hope. Just try to imagine this: Take Unicorn Store, detract ANY level of craft whatsoever, and then add kids to the mix. You’re still a fair ways off just how embarrassingly bad Rainbow is.
Feels ridiculously dated, even by 1996 standards, and an unequivocal lack of quality in every department doesn’t help matters. This is a film completely out of touch... with the audience, its own world and with film-making in general. It pains me to speak ill of the dead, but after sitting through this, one could completely understand why they didn’t let Hoskins near a megaphone again.
Existential children’s cinema that makes some of the most deranged choices I’ve ever seen please watch this
Depressing kids film. I assume the boy dies at the end as there’s no way he’s getting out of that rainforest on his own. Some of the visuals are ok but the gang of kids are tiresome.
Bob steps up to the director’s chair and makes… something! look— I had no idea what to expect of this going in— in our ever-rotating white guy of the month movie club— each one of ‘em has at least one cult classic that’s not really great but it’s just so much fun— and for what it’s worth I’d call this better than Mike Myers’s PETE’S METEOR and about 90% of Hugh Grant’s entire filmography— don’t get me wrong… it’s not great— it falls into the classic low budget sin of just wasting so much time— but it also lives up to low budget cult status ‘cause its moments that are good are just so fuckin’ good— from its super weird…
Bob Hoskins Movie Club
Someone joked that this is Bob’s Pete’s Meteor—not wrong. Kind of lost me when the color drained from the world and got dystopian but the front half is silly as all get out. The kids are genuinely WEIRD kids, and have a weird goals of… being scientific about rainbows. They all say SHIT a lot, which is funny. Bob, who directed this, plays an American magician/hippie. Freaky, trippy, sometimes in poor taste. It has an ending that is so unbelievably weird (kid sacrifices self, then is deposited in… rainforest). 2 stars for a good night with my friends and for the rainbow sequences.
Using this to log the Kacy Musgraves
concert I saw tonight in LA
A really lovely and peaceful night. More intimate than the venue would suggest. Kacey makes the perfect music to gently sway back and forth.
this feels like a kid's adventure program that I would have watched at school like earth warp or geordie racer with kids having to convince adults of a problem before it ruins things
very low budget
not great, but passable acting at times
hoskins rocking a greengrass from heartbeat vibe
