Alabama Moon Reviews

I don't know how I missed it, I should have watched it earlier when it came. This is the movie, kinda my style, I love to watch without time barriers in any given time. As a children and emotional movie fan, I love it when both of them come together. Yes, I enjoyed this movie a lot than my friends who saw with me.

A cute story with the bunch of cute kids who gave their soul to fill the fictional characters they played. This movie was based on the book of the same name and crafted by the director of one of my favourite children movie 'Secondhand Lions'.

The movie had some flaws, I mean some serious flaws. In the opening where the Moon's father was trapped in a fallen tree that was leaning across the river was looked clearly a fake. Like that there were many others in the movie that resists us not to believe in what we see. Despite those defects rest were very pleasing to watch especially those location of Alabama.

This movie was good as the recent 'Standing Up' unfortunately both of them were not recognised largely. All I say is don't miss if you get a chance to see it, especially with your niece and nephew. If you are a children movie fan probably you would love it. I heard there was a book called 'Dirty Road Home', a sequel to this movie (book) was written by the same writer. The movie based on it is in production now, I could not wait so long for it.

I really didn't know what to expect from this flick since I have a weak spot for John Goodman, I thought I should give it a try anyway. Eventually, I thought it was an interesting feature about the survival wild child genre. I also liked the fact that almost all the characters were some really nice and decent people even the director of the juvenile 'prison' was not really bad. Movies can be pretty cynical and it was rather refreshing to see a flick without evil at every corner and that's too bad they felt compelled to add the 'evil' police guy who's chasing Moon throughout the whole thing. Of course, I understand that they added him to add some tension, drama and even humor but I think it would have been interesting to see a movie populated with only some nice people. The other issue I had was that the movie didn't really know what it wanted to be. I think it was supposed to be a family feature (I'm not even sure...) since the whole escape was treated like a game and when the kids were all alone in the woods, they made it seems way too neat and too easy. On the other hand, you had some really dark and realistic scenes which didn't really fit the genre (for example, in the opening scene, you had Moon carrying his dead father and burrying him...). So, it kept switching tone between family-friendly and dramatic-realistic and it felt ratheruneven. Still, in spite of its flaws, it was a nice take on the survival movie and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.