Our Friend, Martin

I can't even count how many years in a row we had to watch this movie at school. The story is kinda dumb. The characters are stupid and unlikable. Its boring. The animation is ok I guess. I don't know how accurate this movie is to history but based on the other reviews I don't think that it is. I wouldn't really recommend watching this movie.

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 think that this video should be used to show elementary school students. The reason why I say that is because it teaches about the life of Martin Luther King Jr. by making a cartoon out of it (that way it would seem less brutal for youngsters when telling about the horrors that African Americans faced). Our Friend, Martin does show some actual scenes taken but it is mainly a cartoon video. I think this video was successful at talking about Martin Luther King Jr. and why he has made a huge difference today. For example, when Miles and Mr. King travel through time to the year 1998, and since Martin has been taken out of the past and into the future, he wasn't there to fight in the past (it erased everything that Martin did in the past). When Miles and Martin arrive in 1998 African Americans were going through the same turmoil as they did before Martin Luther King Jr. could fight for them. This is when you know that Martin Luther King Jr. had a great affect on the relationships of blacks and whites today. I like the movie because like I said it teaches, in a less brutal way, about the horrors faced by African Americans before Martin Luther King Jr. could fight for them. I rate this video ten out of ten and recommend it to everyone.

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 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.