I knew it was about a talking parrot, but that's about it, and truly, that's all it is. So Paulie (Small Soldiers' Jay Mohr) is the intelligent parrot (a Blue-crowned Parakeet/Conure to exact) has learnt to talk extremely well, and actually have a personality. So in the film, he is given as a gift to little Marie Alweather (Hallie Kate Eisenberg), but then he is taken away by her father Warren (Matt Craven) when she believes he can talk more just a couple of words. So the rest of the film sees Paulie have some mini adventures with a pawn shop owner, an old widow, a Mexican-American guy and a thief. That's all I can say really. Starring The Notebook's Gena Rowlands as Ivy, Men in Black's Tony Shalhoub as Misha Vilyenkov, Richard 'Cheech' Marin as Ignacio, Bruce Davison as Dr. Reingold, Mohr as Benny, Trini Alvarado as Adult Marie, Buddy Hackett as Artie and Bill Cobbs as Virgil the Janitor. To be honest, this is only a good film to see a parrot talking, and obviously some quite naughty things, the kids will approve, but the older viewer might not care about all going on. It won the BAFTA Children's Award for Best Children's Feature Film. Okay!