Our Friend, Martin

I just showed this movie to my 5th Grade classes as part of a series of Social Studies lessons on Martin Luther King, Jr. We had just finished reading a book in which many of MLK's accomplishments and honors were explained, so the movie really helped tie it all together for them. They were absolutely entranced by it! (I had to stop 45 minutes into it so we could go to gym class and they were so upset- they almost didn't want to go!) The combination of animation and real footage was very well done. The students also enjoyed the hip music and famous voices.

I adore the movie "Our Friend Martin". It talks about the life of Martin Luther King Jr. (which I think is done extremely well in this movie). It shows a video of when MLK gave his "I have a dream speech". It reviews other parts of Martins life, when he was killed, and when his house burned down etc. I enjoyed watching the cartoon version of this. All of the characters in the movie are cool- Martin Luther King Jr., Miles (who loves baseball), Randy (Miles best friend) Maria (smart kid) and Kyle (bully). Miles, Randy, Maria, and Kyle take an adventure through time to meet Martin Luther King Junior and learn about him and that's when the story is told about Martin Luther King Jr. Another thing that I liked about the movie is that Kyle turned from a bully to a nice kid (probably because he was around Martin Luther King a little bit). If you are racist DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE. Other than that I recommend this movie to everyone. It is a great story!!

Besides the message of the film,

The story is just so average I can't give it any better than what I gave it.

I Liked and Enjoy watching Our Friend Martin. Really talks about Martin Luther King's life and then his death too. The kid Miles and his best friend Randy along with Maria smart girl and the Bully Kyle all take the adventure to meet Martin himself during his lifetime. Soo great! Martin and Miles get to hang out that was really cool! But Martin realizes Miles's timeline was all off and wrong due to his time affected Miles' timeline. Miles didn't want Martin to leave but He does in the end. Miles gets his friends and real timeline back. And make the art of Martin at the end so emotional and good! Martin Luther King always remembered for life! Good movie.

I'm not gonna spoil this movie because I want this to be what you expect from the movie. The movie is kind of ehh. It would avoid the problem if the characters weren't stereotypical 90s kids. Every character is just a rehashed "cool" kid from every 90s show.