Our Friend, Martin
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Angela Bassett, Edward Asner, LeVar Burton, Lucas Black, Theodore Borders Director: Rob Smiley, Vincenzo Trippetti Brand: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Producer: Andy Boron Producer: Andy Heyward Writer: Chris Simmons Writer: Dawn Comer Writer: Deborah Pratt Writer: Sib Ventress DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Animated, Color, Digital Sound, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 60 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-01-13 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: 20th Century Fox Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Our Friend, Martin
Movie Review: Eh, Mediocre
Summary: 2 Stars
Although this movie had a couple deep and emotional moments, the hokey nature of the rest of it bled all over that. The characters were horrible: the kids came off as somewhat mentally handicapped, with the exception of maybe the Mexican girl, whom on a side-note looks as if she's 21, not a sixth grader. The obese kid and the blond skateboarder had no redeeming qualities to them whatsoever on the account of their ignorance and sheer stupidity. Because of this, the most disturbing points in the movie didn't deal with the mistreating of the African Americans, it was more as a result of the skateboarder's slow, sluggish manner of speaking and the obese kid's being topless at the March In Washington. And the running gag with the bad bus driver: first off it was inconsistent; second off: it's scary to show kids that a school district would allow a bus driver who can't stay on the road keep his job driving children to school. The celebrity voices only left me playing a game of 'yeah, that voice sounds familiar,' which I guess was a good distraction from the before-mentioned disturbing aspects of the film. In a closing synopsis: 'Our Friend Martin' does somewhat achieve it's goal of delivering the historic aspects of the story, but it falls short on the account of poor writing decisions and being dumbed down for children; and believe me, their minds need to be as sharpened as they could be nowadays.