Fantastic!

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

During the rodeo the thing that bugs me the most is the barrel racing. It's like the movie is trying to make fun of the sport. If they're going to film a barrel race, they need to have someone who knows what they're doing, on a horse that knows what it's doing. In the movie they have a horse that has no idea what its doing with an inexperienced rider. Also, the chute dogging sucked. I know plenty of kids who are only in junior rodeo who can do so much better than what was shown in this movie.Now granted, the rest of the movie was a great recreation, but I still like the original better. They changed the movie here and there, all around it was great. I just wish that they had spent a little bit of money just to get people to come in for the rodeo who have experience in that area. I mean come on, the focus of the movie is about horses. The least they could do is not disrespect people who rodeo for a living.

I completely fell in love with this movie! I think the cast of characters were real and believable. Tim McGraw was fantastic of playing the Dad who's caught between protecting his children and setting them free to live their dreams. The whole cast was wonderful and even more so was the story of Flicka itself. Being raised in the city, but a country girl at heart, this film resonated with me. If you're just looking to escape from the harsh, cruel, destructive ways of the city, and lose yourself amongst the way the world was meant to have been, then go see Flicka! An absolute wonderful movie about dreams, family, and a friendship that saves us all.

The Comments I've read regarding Flicka range from love to pure hate, like to dislike, pure joy to pure disgust....but almost EVERYONE raves about the scenery, the cinematography, and the art direction.Well, SURPRISE! 99% of the movie was filmed in the "LA 30 mile" film zone. Three days were spent in Wyoming and you see it sparingly in the bus driving from school to home, the stylized wild horse herd flashes, and the final shot of the movie.For the life of me, I don't know why this wasn't publicized...it adds a completely new depth to the quality of the look of the film when you understand that it was shot 30 minutes from downtown Los Angeles, and NOT in the middle of Big Sky Country.Being the Location Manager on this film, it is a compliment that most people think it was shot in Wyoming....but that would have been EASY! Thoroughly enjoying my experience with this movie, I hope others enjoy it, paying particular attention to the amazing vistas that we found RIGHT HERE in Los Angeles, California.

Mary O'Hara must be doing spins in her grave! It was bad enough what Hollywood did originally to her books (all three of them in the series) without this version hitting the screen. This was not a "kid's book" (I've seen the reference...obviously from someone who never read the books); it was a series of books about the complex relationships of a family living in 1940's Wyoming: A loving mother, father, TWO sons, and an infant daughter. The father/son conflict between the younger son and the father, and the relationship between the brothers, Ken and Howard, were well crafted; as was the very deep (and at times) troubled love relationship between Rob and Nell. What could have been a sweeping family saga was turned into a sappy boy loves horse opus for Roddy McDowell (great actor!), shortly after his successes in the Lassie boy loves dog films.Just once, I'd like to see Hollywood get it right. If the book ain't broke, don't fix it!!