What’s Aged the Best?
Moscow/Hanks resemblance; childlike behavior; apartment fantasy; carnivals; friendship
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- The facial resemblance between young Josh and Hanks is an aged-best casting achievement, followed by a tangent about Moscow's reported engagement to Washington.
- Hanks's quick childlike nodding and Susan's hardened careerist characterization have aged well; adults' alarm at Josh's behavior supplies comedy.
- Cashing the $187 check and showing Billy the office are aged-best moments.
- Cynthia's big hair, denim jacket and role as a twelve-year-old ideal preserve a specific 1988 look; Josh appearing on a missing-child milk carton is another memorable detail.
- The mother's demand for proof of her son's identity prompts Josh's delayed recognition and singing, with Lovitz looking on, nearly earning a separate scene nomination.
- Walkie-talkies are admired as a film device, with disagreement over real-life use and comparisons to Stranger Things, Nextel chirps and FaceTime.
- The toy-filled adult apartment remains an aged-best childhood wish-fulfillment fantasy, compared with Richie Rich and Blank Check.
- Carnivals are an aged-best setting for family, crushes, snacks and possibility, despite Josh's humiliating height rejection.
- Pepsi, Bubblicious and Pizza Hut placement is disputed between aged-best effectiveness and aged-worst conspicuousness; a Coke machine would improve the fantasy apartment for one speaker.
- Billy's tireless loyalty is aged-best: clothes, city help, Zoltar search, resume invention, locker-combination Social Security number and sharing a cherry exemplify childhood friendship, contrasted with adulthood's competing obligations.