Alabama Moon - Abenteuer Leben

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.

Alabama Moon is a lovable movie, as long as you can remember what's being a child and dreaming about a grand forest adventure, living off nature, standing by yourself, dodge bullies, defy all odds and make some great friends in the process.

It is, as well, a film about dead, losing and moving on, in life. So fun? yes, simple? ditto, addressed to children? spot on, simplistic? no, I don't think so, the answers Alabama Moon gives to the great questions of life might be simple, perhaps too simple for an adult, but in a world who dodges anything related to death and loss a film that raised this question should not be easily forgotten.

Watch with your 11 years old heart on.

This movie starts heavy and dark. I like that; it gets you into this dark theme of 1980 middle of nowhere alabama with lord of the flies overtones.

Well, sadly, maybe sadly maybe not depending how you look at it, the movie pivots very fast into this semi the goonies like script where it becomes a children's movie.

Now I do have a question that I am confident whoever wrote this production cannot answer either. And that question is why on earth did you start your movie like you did. Why do we have a graphic close up of bones sticking out of somebody's body... What exactly is the relevance of all that when you just toss out the door 10 minutes later and fully ignore it..

This movie smells like LEAVE NO TRACE, except that leave no trace was consistent and well done. It followed through. This here is really two movies that should not occupy the same script. You are either doing wild kid survivalist theme or kiddie adventure for sunday morning family viewing. You cannot have both at the same time.

The cast.. nothing special but they do their parts well enough. The characters... well nothing special either, except i have to say they copied the sheriff straight out of rambo first blood. It is so obvious and it sends me back to the confusion of the writing of this whole production. It has no clear direction of what it wants to be. It gets inspiration from random things here and there and just mashes them together.

There are also issues with follow through in general. Events are wrapped up quickly off screen with a brief mention by a character that XYZ occurred off screen.

The best done parts are the ones with john goodman. I don't want to spoil them but when you get to them you will see what I mean. Still does not solve the issues mentioned above and that unfortunate. But near the end when we forget most of the sins committed here, it flows well.

5\10 A weird approach to a childrens adventure movie.

A movie perfect for family night entertainment. A nothing to worry about film as far as appropriate for children or adults. Which is to me a welcome breath of fresh air in movie watching. Good acting, an imaginative plot snd although it has twists and turns - ii would classify it ultimately as uplifting - I enjoyed the movie.

"Alabama Moon" is a lovely little film about a young boy who loses his only parent and then must figure out how to make it on his own. If you have ever read any of the teen survival literature like My Side of the Mountain, you have a fairly good idea of what the film is like. Will this film win any awards? Probably not, but it's refreshing to just relax and watch a film that is good for the heart. Another reviewer complained that this film was reminiscent of the Waltons. That's true, but let us not forget how long the Waltons ran and how extremely popular it was. A great film for a bowl of popcorn and the kiddos gathered around the TV!