Spielberg has gone from having his finger on the pulse, to making movies for himself...... and now to making movies about himself. Its sad to see his decline.

Yet another flop from Spielberg, this is what happens when you only make movies for yourself and not the audience. At least his last flop, 'West Side Story', was less dull, even if it was the most needless film ever made. Why repaint the Mona Lisa?

This movie is just one annoying scene after an another, where you end up shouting at the screen. For example the 'chasing the tornado' scene , the 'boys in the theatre' scene, the 'mother dancing in front of the car' scene, and the scene with John Ford were you're screaming, 'the horizon is on the top'.

It's overlong with pointless scenes of Spielberg, I mean Fabelman, editing, sometimes over the never ending piano playing of his mother. I found out later the music was by John Williams, wow, even he's losing his touch.

In this movie we dont have one annoying uncle, we have two. Annoying Uncle one, played by Seth Rogan, who is basically playing himself. The movie has Rogan as the most hilarious uncle in the world, well supposedly, although he doesnt do or say anthing actually funny, but everyone is in stiches at his every word.

Annoying Uncle Two is played by Judd Hirsch, who the moment you see getting out of a car, you know exactly what he's going to do, and he does it, think annoying dad from 'Independence Day' , but with an accent. He must be a shoo-in for the Golden Rasperry.

More scenes of the young Spielberg, I mean Fabelman, making kids movies, and believe it or not, this is a lot duller that it sounds.

The overacting in this film is taken to a new level. Gabriel LaBelle seems to think he's playing the Young Woody Allen, not the young Steven Spielberg. Michelle Williams, who is usually amazing, acts like she's been told to turn the overacting up to 11. And so many scenes are just clumsy and badly conceived.

It seems like the days of Spielberg making entertaing movies that an audience might enjoy are well and truly over. What next 'The Fabelmans 2 : the teenage years'?