The film explores the story of a happy child who appears to be working as a depressed man selling equipment to help people commit suicide. This family realizes that the future of their permanent family business may be threatened by the Radiant Boy. Now, the family is trying to take desperate measures in their efforts to preserve misery and coexistence again.
This is a film of two halves, with the half involving sweetness and light muddled and limp in comparison to its tougher, more sinister flipside, while the ending is almost unforgivably trite.
Too grisly for kids, or at least their ticket-buying parents. At the same time, the bouncy musical numbers with their contorted rhymes are unlikely to be embraced by any self-respecting Goth teen.
