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3.0 out of 5 stars
Difficult Call, November 18, 2006
This review is from: Little Men (DVD)
It's hard to be critical of this movie. It was made in eleven days with a budget under $50k and it features an all child caste. On top of that, the entire movie was filmed in a single park in Florida. Considering these constraints it's a pretty good movie. The main strengths of this movie, as I see them, are the camera work and the editting. The shots are well-framed. The lighting is professional and the scenes flow together well. The weaknesses of this movie are primarily the plot and dialogue and secondarily the soundtrack. Taking into account that the entire movie was filmed in a park (except for a few house scenes), it seems reasonable that the plot might suffer and so a weak plot is excuseable here. However, the dialogue is a major problem from my point of view. Very little of what the child actors say sounds natural and I see this more as a weakness in the script than in their acting. The director seemed to have a good repoire with the child actors (I base this on his movie commentary and the little documentary included on the DVD), but he just doesn't seem to have a good ear for dialogue (again, IMHO). My other concern has to do with the soundtrack. It was basically flat and uninteresting. I get the impression that very little effort went into the soundtrack.
The main value of this movie is that it provides a good mark for amateur film-makers to aim for. If you aspire to become the next YouTube phenomenon or just make little movies to show friends, this movie provides a good standard that may be obtainable for most people.
This movie was supposed to deliver a socially uplifting message, but the message becomes lost due to the poor script writing. It would have been better to have created a comedy given the constraints placed on this project. Having said all this, I still give this movie three stars since it is somewhat unique in many ways and has value... but not necessarily a lot of entertainment value.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
confusing, August 2, 2009
This review is from: Little Men (DVD)
This movie makes very little sense even for a low budget movie. The timing is off because people missed their cues and it leaves you wondering what was the message. It doesn't really explain what's going on and you have to kind of figure it out on your own which is pretty hard.
I would not recommend this movie to anyone unless of course your trying to figure out how to make a confusing movie.
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