Hunt for the Wilderpeople - movie review

Hi Everyone,

The kids and I thought we should have a movie night last night, so off to the DVD shop we went.  We left the DVD store with "Hunt for the Wilderpeople".  This was my son's choice as he had already seen it at the movies and thought we all needed the experience.  We cooked some hokey pokey and coated it in healthy-ish homemade chocolate, then settled down to our movie night.

This movie is brillliant.  There is a bit of bad language and violence but nothing that offended me too much and I found it fine for my young teens (you make your own opinion for your own kids here).  As for funny, we laughed all the way through.  The actors were perfect for the movie.  I loved the troubled boy, who really was just a real boy.  I would have cried in a couple of scenes, but I kept it all under control. 

This movie has inspired my boy to read more of Barry Crump's books.  I have no idea what the contents of these books are like so I had better get reading myself and check them out.  But anything that gets my boy inspired to read more is always a good thing.

I know Barry Crump's books use to fly off the bookshelves when I worked in the retail.  If they are anything like this movie I can see why.  There was a bit of everything in this movie.  It's a movie we all enjoyed, which is often a hard thing to achieve when you have a family of teens.

Movie trailer available on Youtube

Family movie nights are a treasure and memory builting event, so how about making some treats and grabing a DVD to enjoy together.

Happy reading

Movie review

Hi everyone,

It's school holidays here so it was off to the movies today.  What to choose?  Ummm?  Of course it was a book I had read, Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children.  I was interested in seeing if it ruined the book, much like most of the movies I have watched after reading a good book. 

Not this time!  I really enjoyed the movie.  It had one lady in the theatre very jumpy, we all heard her.  But at the same time I had no issues with the content for my boy.  That is not to say I recommend young children go to this movie, use your initive with your own children... My boy is a young teen.

Anyway, did it add up to the book.  Yes!  Finally a movie that I enjoyed just as much as the book.  Doesn't happen very often but this time I enjoyed ever bit of the movie and every bit of the book. Of course there is more in the book to enjoy.  There is only so much time in a movie screening.  There was a couple of parts I can't remember being in the book and I am not going back to read the book, you will have to read it yourselve and figure it out. 

For my book review connect here:  Miss Peregrine's... book review

And, for your viewing here is the trailer which you can find on Youtube.

Youtube link

Well it's the weekend again so hope you all have something great planned.