- Bile Fascination: The only talk you're likely to hear about this film is people pondering how auteur Francis Ford Coppola wound up making such a critically derided kids movie.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- Jack's angina attack was already really hard to watch, but Robin Williams would have heart problems later on, requiring heart surgery in 2009.
- The final scene. Listening to Jack talk about not worrying about how much time you have and enjoying every moment is absolutely heartbreaking when taking Robin Williams' suicide into account.
- Heartwarming Moments: Of the Tears of Joy variant, there is the "Who I Want To Be When I Grow Up" report.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Coppola suggested the reason Jack may have flopped critically is because it was a Creator's Oddball, claiming: "It was considered that I had made Apocalypse Now and I'm like a Marty Scorsese type of director, and here I am making this dumb Disney film with Robin Williams"... too bad that 15 years later Scorsese proved him wrong by releasing his own family-friendly Creator's Oddball with Hugo to a very positive critical reception.
- Nightmare Fuel: While the movie starts out poking fun at the idea of a 10-year-old in a 40-year-old body, the second half of the film drops the pretense and shows that, yes, Jack's body is actually that old and, yes, he is going to die from old age probably by the time he's 20.
- Padding: The whole subplot with the Fran Drescher character.
- Retroactive Recognition:
- This film was made just before Jennifer Lopez really broke into the mainstream — albeit not quite her first role in a major film, which was the previous year's Money Train — and a couple of years before she dominated pop culture.
- Co-writer James DeMonaco is these days better-known for being the writer-director of The Purge, and thus the franchise that it spawned.
- Spiritual Adaptation: Jack feels like a more kid-friendly The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
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