Marv (Mickey Rourke, Sin City, 2005)
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Marv (Mickey Rourke, Sin City, 2005) |
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Holes is a children’s film that is tells the tale of Stanley Yelnats. Stanley always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and this time it landed him in Camp Green Lake, a work camp for young offenders. While there he solves the mystery of the Camp, and breaks his family’s curse. This is a very imaginative and surprisingly complex story. Three different plot lines, Stanley’s dealings in Camp, his Great Great Grandfather’s dealing with the psychic that caused the curse to happen, and the western history of the camp, each crosses the other two, again and again. They weave a story that is quirky and quaint. This film has a little fun for the adults too. Best of all is the fact that the film, most of the time, does not treat children like kids: this film touches on racism, mob justice, revenge, fate, and other very adult issues. The only problem with this is the film does not do it constantly. The director felt the need to telegraph some key plot points to children that he didn’t need to. This is the case of having the Psychic repeat the curse while Stanley was carrying Zero up the mountain. The director should have trusted the audience to get the point that this will break the curse on the Yelnates.  The acting is great in this film. There was all around good performances from the younger stars in this film. Shia LaBeouf’s performance was about as good as Rory Culkin’s in Signs. The adult stars do a good job as well. The film main problem is it is a little too slow at times, the director spent too much time explaining plot points, even for a children’s Movie. I have not read the book, however as the author of the book wrote the screenplay, it is reasonably to assume it is fairly faithful to it, FYI. Technical Merit: B- (Cinematography, Visuals, Editing) The cinematography is wonderful in this film and warrants a higher grade. Nevertheless, Holes has two problems that prevent this from happening. The CGI of the lizards is sloppy at times. Also, there are other ways of switching between story lines then dissolves, nearly ever single switch among story lines was a dissolve, let’s have some variety. Summary: This is a unique and offbeat kids' movie, which has some fun for the adults as well. It doesn’t treat kid like children, some of the time. The acting is great all around. The films suffer a little in the technical department from over used editing technique and sloppy CGI. |
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