TALL TALE has the potential to be an excellent film. The possibilities of a tall tale adventure with Pecos Bill, Calamity Jane, Paul Bunyan, and John Henry should be great. This isn't.
The two stars I gave it are for two performances that head and pretty good cast and the music by Randy Edelmen (the genius behind GETTYSBURG's score). Patrick Swayze is an excellent actor, and now I fully appreciate his ability to turn a complete dud of a role into gold. He takes the role of Pecos, a shallow character, and steals every moment onscreen. When he flies in and out of his tornado, you don't even glance at the larger-than-life twister because you're mesmorized by Swayze. He's excellent.
The other good acting is by Stephen Lang (also from GETTYSBURG) in a brief role as the hero's dad. The music is amazing.
The film starts off engaging enough, but slowly deteriorates down to cheesy plot and dialouge. Many of the scenes toward the end made me laugh out loud because of their predictable nature. Other negative things are often choppy visual effects and incomplete shots.
Nice try, but the film fails.

This is a great movie for both adults and children. The cast is perfect. We've all heard about these characters. It's fun to see them as actual people!

We watched with 2 of our grandsons and loved this movie!! They fell in love with Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and John Henry, which I remembered from childhood...I am buying them the movie and books about these 3 wonderful characters for Christmas..It's so good to watch a movie without all the profanity that has a good moral story...

First off I think that it should get more then 5 stars. I first saw this movie when it was first out. I went and saw it with me friend for me b-day. Let's just say it change our lives. It gave us something to think about, something to play(You know how when you're young you like to make up things that's what we did) This movie is great for anyone to watch. It's just great! If you haven't seen it, then you should. Believe me, you wont be sorry. Tall Tale is the best!

Great for all ages, more movies like this one need to be made. I enjoyed the old stories so well, I am buying it for my grandkids. Also getting them the books, these stories need to be kept alive.