Amy's parents split up a decade ago and she followed her mother halfway around the world to New Zealand. Now her mother has died in a car accident and she's staying with a half-crazy inventor father she barely remembers in southern Ontario. She has no reason to get up in the morning until she finds and rescues a nest of goose eggs. Now that they've hatched, she's mother to 16 feathered, honking babies. But geese learn to migrate from their parents, and these geese have none. How can a fourteen-year-old girl fly 500 miles?
This is a flat-out fantastic movie. The characters are a blast, alternatively fun and profound. They interact believably with each other and with the overall plot. There's a little family-movie cheese in the recipe, but it blends well with the unique and bizarre parts to feel mature and smart all around. Besides, it's a young Rogue from X-Men playing Amy, and the teaching-geese-to-migrate plot is based on an actual scientific experiment. What isn't cool about that?
