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  Average Rating for Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium [2007] - 4 out of 5

  
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• Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium [2007]

  Judy Smith 19 August 2008

  

  All the ingredients to prove a most pleasent tasting pudding. Although the story is quaint in a 'nutcracker' way it also pulls no punches on life itself. Without giving the game away too much, in the midst of a magical fantasy there is also sadness. It's a good lesson for children and adults alike, a genuine narrative on life.
  Dustin Hoffman is superb as the ever optimistic Mr Magorium, Natalie Portman has a quiet, gentle wit which even the 'mutant' falls for, and at last they've found a child actor that is not only pleasing on the eye, but has a novel demenour and an iota of intellegence. But, for me, the zebra is the star!

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STRANGER THAN FICTION screenwriter Zach Helm makes his directorial debut with this whimsical tale about a magic-filled toy store. Dustin Hoffman stars as Mr. Magorium, while Natalie Portman plays the employee he chooses to take over the business when he retires.

Comedy starring Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium is the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. It's a tantalising toy haven in which everything inside literally comes to life - including the store itself - and where marvels of every imaginable, possible kind, and beyond, never cease... until now. When Mr. Magorium, the store's extraordinary 243 year-old proprietor (Hoffman), announces that he will at long last hand over the reigns of his wonder-expanding Emporium to his unconfident young manager, Molly Mahoney (Portman), the store decides to throw an unusual tantrum. As a skeptical accountant named Henry (Jason Bateman) comes in to audit the Legos and Lincoln Logs, not to mention the Whodathoughts and Whatchamacallits, the once sparkling, colour-saturated Emporium is suddenly embattled by mysterious changes. The playful toys are all still there, but they've turned gray and quiet - and only Mahoney and Henry can revive them if, with the help of a superdexterous 9 year-old (Zach Mills), they can find the source of magic inside themselves.