Mrs. Doubtfire ****4 stars

James: (age 6 1/2) ***** 5 stars I like it when the fire truck rolled on the mask.

Jupiter: (age 5) **** It was funny when Mrs. Doubtfire, when the kids were watching her across the street and when the mask fell out of the window and the truck rolled over it. There was a part when Mrs. Doubtfire had to go pee pee and the teenager boy went to the bathroom and looked at her as a boy.

Justice: (age 3 1/2) 13 stars.

Adam: It seemed like they developed this movie as a vehicle for Robin William's manic voices and personae--the talking dinosaurs and the opening sequence with the cartoon character, but actually once Pierce Brosnan came into the picture, Robin Williams began to act and you could see that there was a sad and bitter dad hiding under the surface of a doting congenial English matron, and that combination, which was acting, really worked. I think Robin Williams didn't trust himself, or the producers didn't trust him to carry a movie, but as long as he's not the lead, and he's acting, his career has gone well. He played the creepy film development guy in one movie and the killer in that Dinero movie, and did well with both of those. The result is that the first 45 minutes was a long Robin Williams set-up that didn't play well. The middle hour of the movie was Mrs. Doubtfire. She was great. Though the movie was done in '93 it looked like it was done in '83, with all the poufy hair, earth tones and bad sweaters. I have to add that Sally Field, as a real actress, carried the day. The moment she discovered the true identity of Mrs. Doubtfire was amazing. She must have said the same line five times--was it, "You're kidding me," and each time she said it, it was different. First shock, then disbelief, then it was anger, then it was violation when she realized she'd confided in him, and then the last one was hopeless resignation. I mean she carried it off. She really did it.

Grandma Pat:*** 3 1/2 stars. I like the way the dad was very caring. This is Robin Williams at his sweet best, playing a dad who loves his children. You don't see that often in the movies. Even Pierce Brosnan was a character you could care for. Everybody in this movie was sympathetic. There were no bad guys. You could have empathy for everybody.

Mama: **** 5 stars. I prepped the kids before the movie that the beginning might be sad, because a Mama and Popi "break up" (the term they know from all of the high school movies we watch) and get divorced, and did they think they could handle that to get to the Mrs. Doubtfire part? Yeah, sure, of course, James said. Well, it turns out I was the one who got all weepy, and Jupiter reached her hand up to block my eyes--just like I did for her when the leopard seal attacked Max in "Eight Below."