Where the Red Fern Grows
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Movie Reviews of Where the Red Fern Grows
Movie Review: Movie Review
Summary: 3 Stars
Based on the book ,Where the Red Fern Grows, comes a classic about a young boy's life with his two dogs. The young boy, Billy Coleman, has a desperate desire to have two coon hounds and he couldn't afford them. Then when Billy's hope started to fall, a newspaper that said that two coon hounds were for sale raised his spirt. He worked a very gruesome time to make the money he needed. Then with the help of his grandfather Bill orders his dogs. A short time later Billy receives some bad news, his dogs were in Tahlequah. His grandfather offered another man's help but Billy wanted his dogs right now. So Billy ran from home to Tahlequah to get his dogs. There he meets some boys that pick on him for what he's wearing, but Billy ignores them and goes to get his dogs. Then when he comes back with his dogs the same boys pick a fight with him. Billy tried to fight the whole gang until the sheriff of the town broke them up. After that he helped Billy get home to his family, but Billy had other plans. He went into a shop and bought things for his family. Candy, clothes, fabric, and even shoes for himself. While he was going home he saw a tree with carvings that said, "Dan+Ann" so he named his dogs Little Ann and Big Dan. When he got home he was greeted by his family who were worried so much, but were overjoyed to see him. He gave his family the gifts and they were extremely happy. He trained the dogs to be able to hunt coons and to tree them. One night his grandfather invited his family to dinner. After dinner he told them about a coon hunting competition. After a long time Billy finally said yes. He went to the Ozarks for the competition. During the competition he treed four coons, but his grandfather got injured so he let the coons go. At the awards ceremony he got what he hadn't suspected, he won the competition! He was overjoyed. When he got home he celebrated with his mother, but then was stopped when Billy told her about his grandfather. A few weeks later while they were coonhunting they met up with a mountain lion. The dogs fought it but Old Dan died. Adding up to Old Dan's death Little Ann stopped eating. Then one day Little Ann died by his grave. After getting ready to move Billy visited his dogs grave one last time. He saw what he wasn't expecting. The red ferns were there.Movie Review: Where the Red Fern Grows was annoying
Summary: 3 Stars
Where the Red Fern Grows Review By Amelia Solano, period 6
Movies that are based on books usually have to leave out or change scenes or characters. For the readers of the book leaving out the smallest character, or changing the way somebody dresses could make them leave the theatre very annoyed. Where the Red fern Grows, being a novel based movie, had many scenes and characters left out. The movie itself was good, but it was not true to the book.
Where the Red Fern Grows did have take out and change many characters for the movie to be a reasonable length. Sammy the cat was not included but that is understandable, for he did not have a very important role in the book. The one thing that annoyed me and many other readers most was the change in the dogs. Old Dan and Little Ann, Billy's dogs, were to have shared a special bond with Billy and have distinctive personalities. Old Dan being aggressive and Little Ann being clever were some traits that I did not see in his movie. The two dogs wouldn't hunt with any other person but Billy, and there was a very strong connection between him and his dogs. I do not feel that the dogs in this movie really cared for Billy and they were just ordinary dogs that knew how to kill raccoons.
In every book there are a few scenes that are added to give a certain effect, or exaggerate a characters feeling. Naturally, directors leave these scenes out to make that movie enjoyable rather that boring. Directors might change scenes too to help with the story line. But the change in his movie did not really help the story line at all. At the end of the big coon-hunting tournament Billy is supposed to win first prize. In this movie somebody else wins, but gives Billy the trophy and the prize money. Billy was supposed to have won but the directors probably left it out because it would be too obvious. To me that is not a strong enough reason.
I know that movies have to change the story a little but this movie changed it a little too much for my liking. If you are considering watching this movie please rent it, for you shouldn't waste your money on a movie you will see once and then forget about.
Movie Review: Only a mediocre adaptation of a fantastic book
Summary: 3 Stars
I am probably rating this movie higher than I should be simply because I enjoyed the book. Much of the timeless appeal of the story is missing from this updated adaptation, just as it was missing from the original 1974 movie. It seems this movie spent more time attempting to do a recreation of the original movie than addressing its flaws.
Reviewers have already mentioned the coon hunts being filmed in the daytime. In addition, you never actually see any of the animals being caught or killed. I realize this is a children's film, but at the same time these hats and pelts don't appear out of thin air. Quite the opposite, these varmints are filmed in such a way it makes them look too cute to kill. No screen time was devoted to the individual personalities of the two dogs and scenes where the dogs are in jeopardy look, well, fake.
There are a number of instances where the acting and directing come off bad. Dave Matthews does a fair job considering it's his first time in front of a camera. Renee Faia is a cutie too. Still, there are scenes where the acting didn't match the lines. You could never really tell for sure whether the two wanted Billy to have the dogs, whether they were regretful the money was spent on dogs versus a mule, whether they really wanted to move to the city, etc... One scene had Faia standing in the doorway, inviting two family friends for dinner, yet the look on her face made it seem this was the last thing she wanted. Joseph Ashton does a fair job as young Billy Coleman, considering his age, and there is a solid chemistry between him and his grandfather (Dabney Coleman). Unfortunately, at the heartwrenching moments of the movie, the points where the acting is pivotal, the emotion didn't carry through.
I'm not sure Disney had much involvement in this picture other than a stamp on the cover and, most likely, distribution rights. Perhaps someone will take another stab at this classic in less than thirty years -- and get it right.
Hope the review helped.
Movie Review: Review Kellyna Fox Period 4 Mr.Miller's class; Difference between the movie and book
Summary: 3 Stars
The "Where the Red Fern Grows" book and movie are very different from the book. They have many differences.
The movie was very different from the book. A lot of differences are that the Colemans didn't have the cat Samie, Billy didn't get steel traps, Billy didn't keep his money in a baking soda can but in a sock, the Pritchard bought a blue tick hound from Granpa's store, when Billy went to go get his dogs, he took a shortcut and almost got shot, when he went to buy things for his family he bought himself shoes, and Billy doesn't call his dogs Old Dan and Little Ann but Dan and Ann. When the dogs tree their first coon Grandpa and Billy didnt make a scarecrow, both of the Pritchard sons are skinny, and when the Pritchard sons betted Billy, they betted $5 not $2. At the coon hunting competition the movie didn't show the beauty contest(I'm not sure if there even was one but my friend said there was), and instead of it snowing at the hunting contest it was raining. Also Billy didn't catch any coons but still won the contest, he gave his trophy to his mom, when the mountain lion attaked Billy didn't kill it, and Billy buried his dogs down by the river not on the hill.
I have a lot of things to say about this movie. First of all is that in this movie, i didn't feel the connection inbetween Billy and his dogs. Second, was that the dogs didn't even have a strong relationship and there wasn't a difference between them. Third, i think the boy that played Billy was a very bad actor. Every time there was a sad moment he killed it by his bad acting skills. And fourth, I don't think this movie is worth buying or renting, it has very bad actors and doesn't go into much detail. I recomend the book instead, the book is way better.
Movie Review: Where the Red Fern Grows Review-Mr. Millers Class
Summary: 3 Stars
The book, Where the Red Fern Grows was very good book. But the movie was disappointing because it took away some of the most important and good things in the book.
In the book Old Dan and Little Ann had a very strong relationship with eachother and Billy, but in the movie it didn't seem like they had as strong of a relationship because you couldn't see how much they loved eachother. The movie didn't include several parts that were in the book. For example: when Little Ann falls in the very cold river, Little Ann wining the beauty contest ,when Billy had the coon traps with out the dogs, and there was no Sammy the cat. There were also some small details that were missing or were different. For example, Billy saves his money in a baking soda can in the book but a sock in the movie, in the book Billy went to Talequah at night but during the day in the movie, he went hunting during the day instead at night like in the book, and when Billy and the Pritchard boys made a bet in the book they bet on $2.00 and in the movie they bet on $5.00. When Billy, Grandpa and his Pa are at the Championship Coon Hunt, Billy wins the cup right away, but in the movie another man wins but then feels like Billy should win. In the book when Billy gets home from the Coon Hunt, he gives his sister the gold cup, in he didn't give his sister the cup.
Overall this movie was pretty good. I think I would have liked it better if I hadn't read the book. If you don't mind missing a few details from the book, this movie is great. But I think that reading the novel is better because you get the entire story from start to finish.
By: Megan Ebner