Not particularly watchable , another one of those films I purchased for $1 out of curiosity thinking it looked like an amazingly good sci fi tale for the price it was being sold for-how wrong was I? Maybe I should have gotten Bonanza volume 5 or something .. The adventures of Superted even, but no, I got this terrible mistake of a movie, OK, so the kids were pretty cute I must admit, but the storyline was not that great and the quality of the filming made it look like 1981, or maybe I'm mistaken in that it was set in that era anyways. But if you want to, watch it, I dare you.. Mwahaha,no honestly its not that great but watch it for a laugh anyways, go on. Mel x
3 Reviews
Never deserved a first chance.
BrettErikJohnson8 May 2004
It's not surprising that the video of this film was distributed by Rodeo Video, a company in tiny Snowflake, AZ. They currently distribute, appropriately enough, rodeo videos. I think they've been thrown off a few too many bulls if they thought this film ever deserved to be distributed.
This is a no-budget kiddie flick that anyone of any age will find tremendously boring. Three `scientists', although I use that term as loosely as humanly possible, somehow come up with a formula which is supposed to make you younger. They ingest their creation and hope to be about 25, but things go terribly wrong and they end up as six-year-olds. The catch is that they will stay that way forever and never grow up if they don't get the antidote. (`Second Chance' isn't intelligent enough to discuss whether they would then have the possibility of living for hundreds of years. It IS supposedly a kid's movie after all.) Problem is, some bad guys have the antidote and they want to do a swap. They'll turn it over in exchange for the composition of the youth formula.
Some proof of this movie's lameness: 1. There was a scene with some Little Leaguers playing a baseball game. The batter simply wore his cap backwards instead of wearing a helmet. 2. There are multiple scenes where we are supposed to believe that six-year-olds have virtually no difficulty driving a Chevy Blazer. 3. The bad guys in this movie find out that the scientists are now little kids. When a little kid shows up at the lab acting strangely, none of the thugs get suspicious. 4. The scientists/animal researchers give their guinea pigs cutesy names and treat them like family pets. 5. There is a wasteful scene where the kids go to a department store and think they can buy clothes with a credit card. 6. The video box has the gall to compare itself to the movie `Big'.
Arte Johnson is touted as the `marquee' talent of this film but it is only Julie Hughes who comes out of this thing unscathed. It's too bad she wasn't able to find much work after this role. The kids are your typical straight to video kids. In other words: they can't act. It really doesn't matter though because the generic story and amateur direction killed this film from the start. Since Richard Lyman was both the director and main writer, he doesn't have anyone to blame but himself. 1/10
This is a no-budget kiddie flick that anyone of any age will find tremendously boring. Three `scientists', although I use that term as loosely as humanly possible, somehow come up with a formula which is supposed to make you younger. They ingest their creation and hope to be about 25, but things go terribly wrong and they end up as six-year-olds. The catch is that they will stay that way forever and never grow up if they don't get the antidote. (`Second Chance' isn't intelligent enough to discuss whether they would then have the possibility of living for hundreds of years. It IS supposedly a kid's movie after all.) Problem is, some bad guys have the antidote and they want to do a swap. They'll turn it over in exchange for the composition of the youth formula.
Some proof of this movie's lameness: 1. There was a scene with some Little Leaguers playing a baseball game. The batter simply wore his cap backwards instead of wearing a helmet. 2. There are multiple scenes where we are supposed to believe that six-year-olds have virtually no difficulty driving a Chevy Blazer. 3. The bad guys in this movie find out that the scientists are now little kids. When a little kid shows up at the lab acting strangely, none of the thugs get suspicious. 4. The scientists/animal researchers give their guinea pigs cutesy names and treat them like family pets. 5. There is a wasteful scene where the kids go to a department store and think they can buy clothes with a credit card. 6. The video box has the gall to compare itself to the movie `Big'.
Arte Johnson is touted as the `marquee' talent of this film but it is only Julie Hughes who comes out of this thing unscathed. It's too bad she wasn't able to find much work after this role. The kids are your typical straight to video kids. In other words: they can't act. It really doesn't matter though because the generic story and amateur direction killed this film from the start. Since Richard Lyman was both the director and main writer, he doesn't have anyone to blame but himself. 1/10
A Real Good Creative Movie
movieman10200211 July 2006
Warning: Spoilers
I purchased the Movie (Second Chance) at Wal-Mart for only $1.00 from Digiview Entertainment. I have to say that I really enjoyed this movie. Three grown men drinks this formula hoping to turn 21 years of age so they can date younger women, and they go too far and it turns them into 6 year old kids. Crooks are trying to get that formula and the little kids must fight off the crooks and save the main doctor and get themselves the right formula that will turn them back into grown men. What I thought was creative was the grown man Mith is a married man and ready to go through divorce with his wife, and she is dating one of the crooks and when his wife see's Mitch as a six year old kid and learns that is her husband, she helps him out by getting the formula, and young Mitch proves his love for her and she gives Mitch a Second Chance as a husband. This movie a wonderful happy ending. I really loved it.
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