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Summary: The best movie in the universe!
Review: This movie is the best movie that I have ever seen, featuring Max Kane, a 14-year old teased for his enormous size and his best friend, Kevin, a 14-year old genious who teaches him the real meaning of life. I would recommend this movie to anybody. After reading the book (Freak the Mighty), I just HAD to see the movie. It's just as good as the book. Anybody can enjoy this fantastic story.
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Summary: Full of heart and soul, difficult to categorize
Review: The Mighty may not be destined to become a classic, but it scores a lot of points for dealing insightfully with the offbeat theme of two kids who use imagination to overcome the bad hands life has dealt them. It has a lot of heart [I know that sounds corny!] and even more soul.Maxwell Kane [Elden Hensen] appears to be the dumbest kid in Cincinnati. He is easily the biggest student in seventh grade because he has failed it twice. Despite his size, he is quiet and passive. He lives with his grandparents, whom he calls Gram and Grim. This is not a happy house. Its inhabitants are haunted by the past. Into the neighborhood come Kevin Dillon [Kieran Culkin] and his Mom [Sharon Stone]. Kevin is suffering from a rare disease which has caused him to become a virtual cripple and has given him a hunchback. He is extremely intelligent, has a sharp sense of humor as well and lives in a dream world. The boys' first two encounters do not go well at all. When Maxwell is sent to remedial reading class, he finds to his embarrassment that Kevin, who is two years younger, is his tutor. But Kevin turns out to have a great deal of patience and decides that Maxwell must read King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable. He says that words are part of a picture, sentences are pictures, and imagination puts the pieces of the picture together. It is through imagination that the bond is formed. One night at a fireworks display, where little Kevin can see nothing, Maxwell impulsively hoists him onto his shoulders. From that moment on, this becomes the way the two travel together. Kevin is the brains, Maxwell is the strength, and in their own strange way, they become one. Together they can get through almost anything. They have many experiences and adventures. These are all very real. Some are dangerous and scary, but in their heads, they have become a knight called Freak the Mighty. In the end, both must confront their separate demons, but because of their friendship, they are able to handle them. The adults in the cast play second fiddle to these remarkable young actors. One or both of them are on screen in nearly all the movie. These are difficult roles. Kieran Culkin seems to be on track to become the actor his brother, Macauly Culkin, once seemed destined to be. Elden Hensen is equally serious about his career. It is difficult to categorize The Mighty. Its themes are too mature for most children, and many adults do not like movies about children. The subject matter might at times be considered grim, yet there is a surprising amount of humor. I suspect that it is one of those films which will become cult favorites after a decade or so.
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Summary: Who Here Loves A Good Movie?
Review: This movie is the best I've seen in a long, long time. It is sweet and funny and heart-wrenching. (...)I know a good movie when I see one. This is a good one. It also follows the book very well, and the book and the movie (for me) are exactly the same on the "I Love This Story/Movie!"
Meet Max Kane. Max is a mentally slow boy,but huge in size. The son of a murderer who killed Max's mother, Max is the only witness to the murder. Max's father is put in jail. Max then lives with his grandparents for years.Max then meets Freak, who's his age but very small. He had a birth defect, and was born very small. But Freak's very bright. More of a genius, really. The two slowly become best friends, fighting villans and saving damsels (sorta).
The only problem I gad with this movie was how everyone said how Sharon Stone was the star of this movie and blah blah blah, when she only actually had about three scenes in the entire movie, with about ten lines total. To me, Kieren Culkin and Elden Henson were the real stars of this movie. Great job, guys!
Buy this movie and hold it near and dear to your heart-never forget what this movie teaches:love, hope, and faith in that there will always be someone there tomorrow.
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Summary: Don't waste your time !!!!
Review: This movie is horrible. The emphasis here is on horrible. You'll catch yourself rolling your eyes as the ... imagines he is in Camelot. Can someone please tell this kid to get a life? Real children do not act this way. This movie lacks drama and creativity in place of blunt realism. Its not a movie that picks you up and makes you dream. Rather this movie makes you think the world ... You'll question why someone would make such a film. Pretty much all of the characters are seedy and trashy. Watch this movie if you would like to know what takes place in the lives of trashy people. For inspriration and beauty into the better things of life look at my favorite movies Shakespeare in Love and Gone With the Wind. And if you really want some blunt realism at least watch a quality film like Good Will Hunting. Moral of the story, DONT WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!. Thanks.
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Summary: Ready For a Really Good Cry?? a Box of Kleenex, Please!!!
Review: Then this is THE movie for you... Keiran Culkin (MacCulley's younger brother) plays Kevin, a young man with a serious disease which his internal organs grow faster than he does, which leaves him physically disabled for a lot of things... Elden Henson plays Max, a big kid for anybody's standard, but huge for an 8th grader, who thinks he is quite stupid, and lets everybody else believe that also. There is a group of really mean boys while Max and they are in Gym class playing basketball, the mean boys play "bowling for cripples", and aim for Kevin, and just like bowling ball pins: down he goes, and Max gets blamed for it. Max gets detention, and he is assigned to a tutor to help him read. As it turns out, his tutor is Kevin, which is noticed by both of them. The book that Kevin has Max read is "King Arthur and his Knights"... Max stumbles around reading, so Kevin tells Max this: "Every word is a picture. Every sentence is a picture. All you do is let your imagination connect them together." {I actually had to get my DVD into action just to get that quote directly from Kieran!} Max begins to realise that reading is more than just words... Kevin and Max, are at a Festival where there are fireworks, and Kevin cannot see the fireworks as he is so short. Max, realising that Kevin cannot see them, picks him up and places him on his shoulders to watch the spectacle... Once the show is done, the bullies see Max and Kevin, and Kevin accuses the lead bully of being a cretin, and the bullies react, and to give chase and to attack them. Kevin, with foresight, kicks Max into moving and together they become Knight and Steed (Kevin the Knight with Max as the Steed) and manage to avoid the bullies, and get them picked up by the cops... From this, a friendship forms, with Kevin getting Max to become more and more like one of Arthur's Knights... Kevin teaches Max to strive for everything. This movie is great. My mother cried at the end, I cry at the end, my FATHER even had tears at the end... I cannot give this movie enough stars... 10, 15, 20: Still not enough...! I have lent several people this movie, and they all tell me that even THEY had tears/and or cried at the end of the movie... I honestly do not think I can say enough good things about this movie, other than the fact that I have purchased the Book (both paperback & hardbound), the Sequel (paperback & eventually hardbound), the Video, the DVD, and the Soundtrack... If I could find a copy of the Movie Script, I most likely would purchase that also... Kieran Culkin is so cute in this movie! I think that when I first saw this movie, there is something so absolutely engaging about Kieran, I was immediately charmed by him! Sorry, Mac! You are good, but your little brother has something really SPECIAL!!! THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE! RENT IT OR PURCHASE IT! IT IS WORTH EVERY PENNY OF IT! RUSH TO PURCHASE IT!!!
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Summary: Must See
Review: This is a heartwarming story about two teenage boys who are the best of friends. This is a must see for children of all ages and adults. This is Sharon Stone's best work.
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Summary: A beautiful movie
Review: I rented "The Mighty" on a whim. I have never been more pleased with a spontaneous video rental. The movie stars Elden Henson (aka Elden Ratliff, who you may have seen in The Mighty Ducks movies... he was the kid with the wicked shot) as Max, a slow 14 year old who is virtually a giant of a boy; and Kieran Culkin as Kevin, a child who has a dibilitating disease but an intellect advanced well beyond his years. Don't let the movie box fool you - this is NOT a Sharon Stone movie. In fact, Ms. Stone is in maybe 4 scenes, maximum. Sure, her performance is ok, but this movie really belongs to Henson and Culkin. Henson, to be frank, is excellent. The character of Max has a wide range of emotions throughout the movie - pain, bewilderment, fright, joy, sadness... He never "overdoes" a scene. He BECOMES Max. Absolutely amazing. Culkin isn't so shabby himself - and let's be honest here, he's the REAL actor in his family. He plays the role of a boy who knows that sooner or later, he's going to die - but lives life to the fullest. Ok, this IS a "feelgood" movie. But it's the best of its kind (forget "Simon Birch", please... besides, this movie was finished way before "Birch" was released. Miramax screwed up royally be releasing "The Mighty" late, and not promoting it enough). The imagery is awesome, and Henson and Culkin have great chemistry together. I can't wait to see more of these two (and it looks like we'll at least get to see more of Henson... he has 3 movies coming out this year). Do yourself a favor: rent "The Mighty". You'll be glad you did.
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Summary: The Mighty is might good...
Review: 'The Mighty' would truly have to be one of the most tragic films of the '98-'99 film year- but not because of it's subject matter (though it is a force to be reckoned with), but the simple fact that it just *had* to be made after 'Simon Birch'. Both films were made with the same subject matter, the old giant and small-man storyline. The film is mainly focused on two boys, Max- who is huge (could probably kick any bully's behind in thirty seconds flat), but- as he describes it- has no brain. Despite his large stature, a lot goes over Max's head. The second boy is Kevin (Kieren Culkin), a small boy inflicted with a serious and deadly disease. The boys begin what would be a strong alliance- you see, Kevin has a brain, and Max has legs. Yup. They soon become basically one with eachother, embarking on childhood adventures centered around King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table type fantasies. They run into thier nemesis, however, when they find a wallet stolen from a biker chick livin' with her biker bad boy boyfriend- Loretta Lee (Gillian Anderson). Anderson proves to us that she can move away from her 'X-Files', flashlight toting persona for this wacky, 'far out' role. She is bearly recognizable, but enjoyably so. Anyways, Loretta's biker dude boyfriend just happens to be a serious problem for the boys.... but I'm not going to say anything else- wouldn't want to spoil it. I've just now realized that I've forgotten to mention Sharon Stone (who doesn't really rock my world in the film). Her performance was good, as were Culkin's and Ratliff's. Overall the plot, story, film, yadda, yadda, yadda, was very good, and, in my opinion, worth it's weight in rental movies.
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Summary: The Mighty
Review: This movie is about two kids Culkin and Ratliff. One of them is a small crippled kid named Kevin. He has an illness which means he has a disease in which his internal organs grow but his body doesn't. The other kid is Max who is a very tall boy and an outcast who can't read or study well. They become friends and form the mighty which is that Max puts Kevin on his shoulders so that Kevin doesn't need his crutches. Max describes it as, "It was like at that moment he became my brian and I became his feet." They bring justice and help people out with struggles. People say about them, "That's what we call a couple of freaks." I like the movie and I suggest you go see it becouse it helps you learn what kids like Kevin and Max are going through and how opposite pepole can become good friends.
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Summary: The Mighty(1998)
Review: This movie is about two boys whobecome really good friends (Culkin & Ratliff) both have really wild imaginations. both boys are different from each other and everyone else, but much lie one another in many ways. This film is the only drama that didn't make me cry, because everything that happened was expected. Sharon Stone who plays Gwen Dillon (kevin's mother) did a fine job with her part. Gillian Anderson (scully from the X-FILES) fit her part very well as an ex-cauns girlfriend, who gives max a helping hand. My favorite quote from this movie was said by Stone "Congratulations, you must be proud. You've just given birth to a healthy seven pound dictionary." I think this movie is much like "Simon Birch". Both Simon & Kevin were born with birth defects, and both found one very special friend who was always there for them. I think this movie was very good and so was the book. You should read the book first before you see the movie.
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