Michael Lown
Barto5x5 HOLES
June 1st 2009 02:42
Hot sun, sweaty work, deadly kisses, grouchy wardens, and bad boys learning their lessons. Doesn't exactly sound like a disney movie right? Wrong. All of these elements are combined in the Disney movie Holes, based on the young adult novel written by Louis Sachar. The story revolves around an adolenscent boy Stanley Yelnats (Stanley spelled backwards, get it?), and the curse that has plagued his family for years and years. Because of this curse Stanley ends up getting sent to a dried up lake turned junvenile detention work camp digging, you guessed it...holes. At the camp Stanley makes more enemies than friends and finds out that the yellow spottend lizards might not be the most dangerous think in the desert.
This wasn't the first time I had seen this film. I had watched it years ago in a theatre, not too far from my house that showed movies for just a couple of bucks. It was a sticky, run-down theatre but great none the less. I was surprised then as I am now at how closely and well Holes followed the book. Since it was one of my favorites growing up, that is definately a plus. The fact that Louis also wrote the screenplay might have something to do with that. It is Disney so it comes with all that implys..more family fun than edgy film. It does have some surprises in that the teenage boys do talk like a milder version of well... teenage boys. If you listen closely and pay attention you'll here a "damn" here and there, along with some size jokes...if you know what I mean.
Overall, its a good film for families and book lovers. I'm glad I got to revisit it.
This wasn't the first time I had seen this film. I had watched it years ago in a theatre, not too far from my house that showed movies for just a couple of bucks. It was a sticky, run-down theatre but great none the less. I was surprised then as I am now at how closely and well Holes followed the book. Since it was one of my favorites growing up, that is definately a plus. The fact that Louis also wrote the screenplay might have something to do with that. It is Disney so it comes with all that implys..more family fun than edgy film. It does have some surprises in that the teenage boys do talk like a milder version of well... teenage boys. If you listen closely and pay attention you'll here a "damn" here and there, along with some size jokes...if you know what I mean.
Overall, its a good film for families and book lovers. I'm glad I got to revisit it.
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