Wonderfully offbeat film!

Very well executed

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

I understand this movie is an intro to the holocaust for Jewish teens but it is honesty so watered down that it feels like your watching a bad summer camp movie. Everyone in here acts as though they are slightly inconvenienced by the Nazi's detaining and murdering them. There is no emotional impact in this movie as this makes the holocaust look tame. The most emotional scene is when poor little Kristen Dunst gets her hair cut boo ho. I loved how all the prisoners looked clean and like they had makeup on, they want to look good for the Nazi's. The hanging scene was so unemotional it felt fake. I would think if you watched your family get killed like that you would lose your freaking mind not mildly sob like your boyfriend broke up with you. There was no emotional agony from families being torn apart, it's like they accepted their fate without going through any of the coping stages. It would be like if they made a movie where a woman is diagnosed with terminal cancer and has a month to live and she brushes it off with no emotional response and went on with her daily life. If you wanted teens to come back from this movie changed you're deluding yourself. Teens see more graphic violence on TV and video games, I think they could handle the gruesome accounts from the holocaust. Hell, it would be better to expose then to the horrors of the holocaust before they become so numb to violence that it wouldn't effect them at all. Christian parents dragged their little brats to watch Passion of The Christ, the worst snuff film in history, I think Jewish kids could handle Schindler's List.The second thing I hated about this movie was it's blatant moral motive. This move is meant to guilt trip Jewish kids into accepting their religious heritage. I have never believed in the idea that scaring and forcing children into faith is an ethical or effective means to conserve religion. There are more effective and loving ways to teach faith. This movie feels like the Christian equivalent of telling a child they will burn in eternal pain if they don't believe and live by religious dogma. Children should be free to decide for themselves and a loving family would support them.The ending was so bland and unemotional. They stripped the women down, magically no nudity, forced them into a small room and dropped blue cat litter from the ceiling and then suddenly everyone died instantly with no suffering. The way the nude girls fell to the ground as the camera pulled away and faded out looked like a cheesy album cover, again they managed to magically show no nudity. Everything about this movie failed. It made me laugh and you should never laugh about something so horrible.

Now, I think everyone on the face of the Earth with an age over 4 and an IQ over 50 knows something or other about the Holocaust. We've seen movies, we've read books, and if you're like me, spent several hours rotting in front of a screen watching the history channel. It's a horrorsome and scary premise that with interest and disgust anyone.Now, just because a movie follows such a premise as this, does this make it good? The answer, in so many words, is no. Quite honestly, this movie wasn't even trying. The actors were laughable and the scenery and costumes looked fake. They put no effort into this movie. It's a horrible adaption to a rather interesting and well done book. This movie is simply trying for tears by choosing a topic that people cry at and hope it's enough to keep people interested.Don't say that I'm an anti-semite or don't care about the holocaust, because it's simply not true, I'm Jewish and easily moved emotionally. The fact is there are far superior movies about this. Life is Beautiful. Schindler's List. The Pianist. This movies Isn't even close to something so great. For crying out loud, the 'Springtime for Hitler' sequence from the Producers was a more accurate portrayal of what happened in this time period, and it never even mentioned The Holocaust!

I thought that the book was better than the movie. I felt like i was in the 1800's most of the movie. Some of the characters were not included in the movie. Though there was many negatives in this movie there was also some positives. These positives were. The movie had a good story line. A great climax, and rising action. It showed what the Jewish people had to go through. out of all the positives and negatives i give this movie an over all rating a 4 out of 10. I would like to thank some people as my closeing statement. I would like to thank my teacher Mr. Pagogna for introducing me to this title. I would like to thank the author for writing a great book. it grabed my attention right away.

While obviously this isn't a perfect education of the horrors of the Holocaust, it's not meant to be. This movie was based on a Young Adults' book, and it's transformed into a Young Adults' movie. It's not supposed to be a perfectly accurate portrayal, and it's not meant for historians or anything. But it is a touching film and excellent education for people to understand what it was like then. There are many powerful moments in the movie. A particularly impressive part, to me, was when Kirsten Dunst's character points to the number branded on her arm, and cries, "I wanted one of these!" referring to a tattoo. I think the highlight, however, was Brittany Murphy's incredible part. She was virtually unrecognizable, and her acting was superb. She literally threw herself into the part, and she shines. She truly is one of the greatest things about this movie.