mr magorium's wonder emporium

since writer/director Zach Helm wrote Stranger than Fiction, I though this script would be witty and intellectual, but it turned out to be just a cute kid's movie. nothing wrong with that, especially if you're a kid, but both Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman were mildly annoying with their wide-eyed belief in magic and Jason Bateman plays it straight, so nothing interesting there. Zach Mills, the little kid with big ears, was pretty good though.