Het zakmes

Dutch film "Het Zakmes" is better known as "The Penknife".It is a brilliant family drama with light comedy.There are scenes in this film where both these genres overlap but all possible confusion is prevented due to mutual symbiosis of different protagonists.This is the perfect film for somebody who wants to have a good laugh with family.This film provides excellent commentary on the state of family and friendship as its director Ben Sombogaart created an ingenuous tale involving irresponsible adults and innocent kids.Adults are shown to misuse their status by not caring for young children.This is the reason why Het Zakmes shows that adults live in their own shell impeding on their children's creativity.The touchy issue of race relations in Holland has also been treated in this film.A beautiful lesson that can be learned is that most of the children have good memories and separation from their friend is unbearable,unpardonable act for them.This is precisely a core element of this dutch film.

10 years before Sombogaart made the best movie ever to have come from The Netherlands (IMO, that is), 'De Tweeling' (Twin Sisters), he made this cute little gem concerning a pocket knife which has to be returned to it's rightful owner.

Mees accidentally put the knife in his trousers instead of giving it back to his friend Tim, who is moving the next day. Through some mishaps Mees can't return the precious knife and goes out to find Tim in his new hometown.

Nice little movie with some good acting (in particular by De Groot who plays the father) and a fun story. I'm sure kids will love it as well.

7/10.

One of the best kid movies I've ever seen! Kids will learn a lot from this movie. Olivier Tuinier is so cute and nice. I will recommend this movie to my future kids.

There are many movies that can make you complain about the simple story, this movie however is different. You could tell the entire story with just three words, mostly this is a bad thing but this movie does many fun things with the idea it has. The main character is played by the most adorable kid you'll ever see, his father is also played by a great actor and has a charming personality. The kids friend is not seen too much in the movie but has just enough personality to feel like an actual person. This movie feels more like a complication of episodes with the same formula, this movie could have easily been a tv-show. There are many scenes that are not needed and are just there to fill up the gaps. But the movie is really cute and charming and there is a running Joke that's kind of funny so this movie is perfect to shut your kids up while they have fun but you probably won't remember it.

This is a great movie for children. It has no violence in it at all and they can actually learn something from it. I would also recommend it to parents, because this is really the kind of movie you can watch with your children together. It shows not only the situation, but also how certain situations can be a problem to a (young) child. Olivier Tuinier is Holland's pride and probably our only worldwide known childactor, but he can easily compete with the American ones. Highly recommended movie!