Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium Reviews

Wonderful and magical movie!!

This movie is narrated by a young boy, he divides the movie into chapters and really only narrates the introduction to each chapter.

Mr. Magorium is played by Dustin Hoffman who does a fantastic job!! Mr. Magorium owns a magical toy store, Mahoney (played by Natalie Portman) is the store manager for him. She feels "stuck" in life and Mr. Magorium puts plans in motion to help her.

The effects in the toy store are amazing. Everything is completely believable, yet you know it's not possible!! lol They did a fantastic job.

I watched with my roommates 6 year old son and he...

I went into Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium thinking it was 100% aimed at children.  However, after just finishing the film, I really believe this movie has a message for adults and might even mean more to adults then to young ones.  

The movie is about a man who owns a strange, somewhat magical, toy store.  Mr. Magorium has been running the store for something like 113 years... and he says he is 243.  His story is full of unbelievable goodies and toys which can only be explained by one word - Magic. However, from the very start of the story we see that Mr. Magorium is getting ready for some...

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium is a wonderful family film. Dustin Hoffman was awesome in this role. He plays a 243 year old man that owns a fantastic magical store. When he finds that his health is failing he turns his store over to Molly Mahoney (played by Natalie Portman) his store manager. There is just one problem. Molly is depressed and since the store reflects the persons energy she has to get out of her depressed state so the store can funtion the right way. When Mr. Magorium dies so does the store until the day Molly walks back in and realizes she has the power to make it come alive...