A young boy named Picaso and his family have moved from Chicago to the small community of Cedar Island. Why? Because Picaso's father (Richard Thomas of the Waltons fame) has a new job on the island designing lawn orniments. Speaking of lawn orniments, that happens to be the name of Cedar Island's youth basketball team.

Picaso decides he'll join the team and make a couple friends. Turns out that although the locals have a passion for basketball and the lawn orniment industry, they also have a passion for rejecting losers. Picaso doesn't stay a loser for long. He makes the kind of friend nobody could have ever dreamed possible. Not only that, but Picaso finds the solution to the teams dwindling record. He meets Ed. Who's Ed? He's an eight foot tall Bigfoot with the remakable talent of slam-dunking basketballs. Now the Lawn Orniments are a winning team.

Picaso soon finds out that there is more to life than being popular and winning basketball games. He learns that it is who he is that counts and not who you know.

This movie could be summarized as "Teen Wolf" meets "Harry and the Hendersons". There are countless bad jokes and zany zingers as well as a lacking theme of a boy finding himself and some friends. In short this movie is downright contagious..."Ah Choo!!!" With a storyline as redundant as this and Richard Thomas'acting ability, (Goodnight to your career John Boy) the only thing to look forward to are the ending credits.

One interesting aspect of this film is the concept of Bigfoot learning through imitation. The classic "monkey see monkey do" analogy, which may cause more dogmatic and zealous researchers to question whether this ideal undermines a Bigfoot's true intellect. Nonetheless, I thought it was an interesting twist to an otherwise corny Bigfoot movie.

Definitely a family film, but its inept plot may put the whole family to sleep.