The Growing Pains Movie

Very happy with this thank you

It certainly took a strange approach. Instead of feeling like a traditional Sitcom reunion special, it felt like a made for TV movie. Now, this might sound weird. So, what I mean by this is that the plot and the cinematography are all off compared with the sitcom.Instead of feeling like watching a long episode of Growing Pains where everyone is back together again; it feels like watching 'this week's made for TV movie' that just so happened to have the Growing Pains cast and characters in it. The tone of the story is all wrong. It feels like a political drama that someone re-wrote to drop the Growing Pains characters in it. For long stretches at a time, it doesn't even feel like you're watching Growing Pains.Once in a while the characters will do something that feels authentic to their sitcom selves. It's like the writers remember all of a sudden, 'Oh right, we're writing a Growing Pains show.' But, these are scattered here and there. They feel more like tacked on late stage thoughts than being integrated into the script.So, instead of feeling like an episode of Growing Pains through and through. It feels like an entirely different project that once in a while remembers that it needs to pretend to feel like Growing Pains.All in all, it's not a bad movie per se. But, it certainly doesn't 'feel' like Growing Pains.

The Growing Pains Movie is just another movie for me. When I was in my teens I use to watch, like, and even lust after some of the younger people on the show. The movies are now out on DVD and most of the younger people of the show are now married. The lust for these younger people is no longer there. Also there are some of the people from the show that didn't make it into the Growing pains Movies. Such as "Boner" and "Eddie". It would have been nice to have included them in the making of the two movies. Oh, well.

THIS SEEM TO LACK A LOT IN THIS MOVIE NOT AS GOOD AS THE SERIES WAS

Loved the movie

Cant wait to watch it.

I remember watching this program when it was still being aired new. Miss this. Sadly I can not watch this on TV, all the good shows are gone and replaced with junk. This movie brings back the good times of the Seavers. Only let down is no [CC] Closed Captioning on it. Need it for anything I watch due to being deaf. But I use my headphone for that. I don't let that damper my enjoyment of this movie of a 'family' that most would love to know or have. Waited ages for this to come out on DVD since never saw it on TV when it was aired.

I remember when this was first aired and was very happy to see it released on dvd. It was great to see the original cast reprising their roles. It's just like the show never went off the air!!

Great shows.. If you order this you may also want to get the two movies as a well . That's what I did.

Having grown up watch Growing Pains it was a sitcom we loved!! The Movie brought back so many memories, however the 2nd movie they made was a wash out and wouldn't recommend.

Like everything

Loved it!!

残念ながら、テレビ用のＤＶＤでは見れなかったのですが、パソコンでは見れてホッとしました。Groing Painsは私がアメリカに住んでいる時に始まり、毎週火曜日欠かさず見てました。当時カセットテープに録音して、何百回聞いても飽きない程好きでした。シーバー家は私の理想の家庭だったんだなと改めて考えさせられました。また、ベンの出来が今一かということにマギーが心痛めるようなエピソードも昔と繋がっていて、本当にあの一家がその後が見れた、という感じです。大笑いあり、ストーリーもあり、最後には感動で泣いてしまいました。その点は、23分のsitcomでは描ききれない映画版ならではだったと思います。念のため、日本語はありません。（私には昔のままが蘇って嬉しかった）