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Summary: best preteen movie of the year
Review: It is a great movie for pre-adults because not to many of those come along.Adults would love the movie too and it is full of action and suspence.Shia LaBeouf does an outstanding performance of the character Stanley Yelnats.This movie is definatly an award-winner just like the book.I give this book 5 stars.
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Summary: holes
Review: holes was the best movie ive ever seen.they picked the best actors and actresses for the parts.I read the book a year before the movie came out and absolutly fell in love with it.i realy dont like to read,but holes made you wanna read!And the d-tent boys were realy hot!i know i dont stand alone when i say that!i wanted lois sachar to make the book a movie-and he did!
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Summary: Reviews By FreaK (and I'm a girl, yes)
Review: Wow. I read the book in fourth grade, and I absolutely loved it. When I heard there was going to be a movie, I literally jumped with joy. Yup, I was jumping up and down during class. I really thought that Holes was a lot like the book, and I wasn't disappointed one bit. Even the dialogue was basically the same, with a few slight changes. It looked just how I imagined it while reading..except for the characters. That didn't really matter to me, though. Holes has a great storyline, but I really can't give too much of it away. It is about a boy who got sent to Camp Greenlake and he has to dig one hole every day ... to supposedly 'make him a good boy'. Then he gets the idea that they must be searching for something. Well, all in all, Holes was a great movie. I highly reccommend it to anyone! I also think you should read the book, which, in my opinion, was much better than the movie....
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Summary: Character-building in the Texas desert
Review: This movie is an adaptation of a book which has been very popular with early teens, but it has appeal for all ages. It tells of a young man named Stanley (played by Shia LaBeouf) who is always in the wrong place at the wrong time and who is unjustly accused of stealing a pair of sneakers which are thrown from a building and which land on his head. He has a choice of going to jail or to a camp, and he chooses the latter, not knowing what kind of a place it is. It is populated by juvenile delinquents who are supervised by a shady trio of characters who direct the inmates in their daily work, i.e., digging holes. While ostensibly this is an exercise in character-building, it is actually something very different. Flashbacks into the early days in the area tell the story of a young woman whose beloved is killed and who becomes an outlaw as a result. The performances are good and the boys (especially LaBeouf and his pal Zero) are very appealing. This is a good movie for a wide range of ages.
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Summary: This film is faithful to the book!
Review: "Holes" is one of those rare films that is faithful to the original book. Of course it helps that Newbery Award winning author, Louis Sachar, also wrote the screenplay. I'm a former elementary school librarian who really enjoyed the book when it came out. I saw the film with my son, who has read the book several times, and my wife (a teacher) who had never read this book. My son and I went on an on about how Camp Greenlake is just like we pictured it in our heads, and my wife kept asking us if this or that was in the book, and we just kept saying, "Yes!" Actually, I think the film made me appreciate the subtle complexity of the book even more. We're talking about a book that deals with such sophisticated themes as fate, justice, compassion, racial tolerance, love, education, family identity, keeping promises, and friendship, to name a few. Don't let the PG rating fool you. This is not just a kid's movie. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't take younger children to see it, simply because they wouldn't get it. Who would've thought that a film (and a book) about a bunch of kids digging holes could be so interesting! Highly recommended. I'm sure we'll see it again.
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Summary: Holes: A deep movie
Review: If you have read the book Holes and are wondering if the movie will be as good as the book or even close to the book, then you have nothing to worry about. I too thought it could not be as wonderful as the book, but that was before i saw the movie. The director skillfully weaves the story back and forth from the past to Stanly's life in camp now. The actors in this film are all superb and some of them are quite famous. My advice about this movie: go
see it!
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Summary: This Movie Is Great!
Review: I thought this movie was great. It was educatonal and adventurous. I had read the book before I saw the movie and the movie characters match their discription in the book. Everything was what it was like in the book!
I LOVED THIS MOVIE!
I GIVE IT FIVE STARS!
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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE EVER
Review: HOLES HAD BEEN MY FAVORITE BOOK THREE YEARS BEFORE THE MOVIE EVEN CAME OUT. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN ME THE DAY I FOUND OUT HOLES WAS GOING TO BE A MOVIE, I WAS SO EXCITED. I REALLY LIKE HOW THEY STAYED TRUE TO THE BOOK. SHIA LABEOUF WAS GREAT IN THAT MOVIE. I AM SO OBSESSED WITH THE MOVIE, I HAVE SEEN IT EIGHT TIMES ALREADY, INCLUDING THE DAY IT CAN OUT. I PLAN TO SEE IT MORE-LOL. I THINK THAT IT WAS VERY WISE TO HAVE THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK, LOUIS SACHAR, WRITE THE SCREENPLAY. OTHERWISE I AM SURE THE MOVIE WOULD NOT BE AS GOOD AS IT IS. THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER ( I LOVE JAKE AND SHIA )I CANT WAIT UNTIL IT COMES OUT ON DVD.
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Summary: A Gem for many ages
Review: I see a lot of kids movies with my 6 year old boy and 8 year old girl. I actually like kids movies a lot (although I couldn't bring myself to take them to Piglet's Great Adventure), but I absolutely loved this movie...probably more than my kids (especially the 6 year old)because they're a bit young to catch many of the subtle and not so subtle connections in the movie. I have not read the book, but this movie was intriguing enough that I bought the book and plan on reading it soon. Usually I hate movie renditions of books (Harry Potter being an exception) when I have read the book first, so I prefer to see the movies first (Harry Potter being an exception.) In this case, I want to know more about the 3 plots the movie follows: Stanley's plight, the story of his ancestor, and the tragic love story of Kate and Sam. This love story has a brutal ending, and although very little is actually seen in the movie (no blood, guts, etc.) it is very clear what has happened and very disturbing. However, it's a part of our country's history (present?) that we cannot deny and that we need to be reminded of - a very real and ugly sort of disturbing (rather than the disturbing of slash and gash, blood and guts Hollywood.) In any case, the 3 plots are completely intertwined and become almost one by the satisfying, feel good ending. There's also an element of magic and the inexplicable which I loved. Many people have been put off by the yellow lizards, but I think they stand for more than just fictional reptiles and they add both a comic and menacing element. And surprise at the end where the yellow lizards are in the hole with Stanley and Zero - can't say any more for those who haven't seen the movie. The movie escapes being too dark by the comedic moments throughout. I'm not sure how I feel about Henry Winkler as Stanley's dad, but the other actors seemed to fit their parts quite well. I understand Stanley is actually fat in the book, so that will be hard to reconcile with the movie version. In all, I thoroughly enjoyed this quirky, comedic, off-the-wall, tragic, mesmerizing movie with its stories of retribution and redemption and I highly recommend it. I will say, I think my son (aged 6) may have been a bit frightened at parts. Although the violence is not graphic (much less graphic than many cartoons), it is very real. And I'm not sure he was able to put together all the complexities of the plot, although he frequently surprises me in this regard. This is a movie older children and teens, as well as adults, will be able to appreciate better.
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Summary: WARNING
Review: Holes is an excellent movie, but I want to warn other parents of very young children that it does have questionable content. There is a storyline in the movie that is a flashback of the old west. In this narrative, a black man is shot and killed by an angry mob of cowboy morons for kissing a white woman who loved him. The woman then becomes the kissing bandit, who travels around killing men and kissing them on the head. There are guns and shooting and killing and racial issues in this movie that many parents may find inappropriate for young viewers. My son, who just turned 6, was very upset by that storyline.
Other than that, the movie really is spectacular. I just wish someone would have warned me about those parts.
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