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Format:DVD
If the Wonder years was made into a feature length movie, produced and distributed by an organisation trying to augment it's overtly masculine, testosterone driven and aesthetically pleasing image, but package it as a serious drama, this would be it. The narrator has the voice down to a T, even making me think I was back with the Arnolds at one point. I hate to be cynical, but over the last few years the WWE has tried its hardest to augment its image, and while they've always had an array of wrestlers from different backgrounds they've always had good looking, charismatic people as winners. This has led to WWE creating an image for itself that it is going further than before to shake off. While the stars themselves have always been in touch with their fans, on screen its always the same aesthetically pleasing, masculine, offensively misogynist drama.
This film, then, tries its best to correct this, and goes about it in the most saccharine way I've quite literally NEVER seen outside of a children's tv show. It's based upon one almighty premise - the world is not tolerant enough. And so the film-makers decide to get past many modern touchy issues (like casting the bullied person as a muslim, for example) and launch themselves into the 50's. And then to sidestep another major issue (the world of adult bullying which is much more complex) they go to school.
In the schoolyard we have Big G, a not very good looking ginger boy who they've laughably given prosthetic ears. Big G is bullied, but he is a tower of strength. You also have their teacher who, a rumour underlines, is a homosexual. So, here we have the crux of the film, both characters are not 'normal' by societies standards (at the time, see what they did?) but are... wait for it... good people!
The film is so saccharine that every 'sad' point is highlighted with sugar-coated music, and the whole drama is lost in the sweetness of this long-winded morality tale for anyone who has missed the Wonder Years..
The oddest part is throwing Randy Orton into the mix. He's an excellent actor/wrestler in WWE, but in this his whole style and look is so anachronistic that he stands out like an oompaloompa..
Needless to say, this film is almost worth watching, just for the sugar-coated sweetness of it all..
This film, then, tries its best to correct this, and goes about it in the most saccharine way I've quite literally NEVER seen outside of a children's tv show. It's based upon one almighty premise - the world is not tolerant enough. And so the film-makers decide to get past many modern touchy issues (like casting the bullied person as a muslim, for example) and launch themselves into the 50's. And then to sidestep another major issue (the world of adult bullying which is much more complex) they go to school.
In the schoolyard we have Big G, a not very good looking ginger boy who they've laughably given prosthetic ears. Big G is bullied, but he is a tower of strength. You also have their teacher who, a rumour underlines, is a homosexual. So, here we have the crux of the film, both characters are not 'normal' by societies standards (at the time, see what they did?) but are... wait for it... good people!
The film is so saccharine that every 'sad' point is highlighted with sugar-coated music, and the whole drama is lost in the sweetness of this long-winded morality tale for anyone who has missed the Wonder Years..
The oddest part is throwing Randy Orton into the mix. He's an excellent actor/wrestler in WWE, but in this his whole style and look is so anachronistic that he stands out like an oompaloompa..
Needless to say, this film is almost worth watching, just for the sugar-coated sweetness of it all..
Format:Blu-ray
Great little movie. Did not look good in the trailer but I really liked it.
Dont be put off coz its a wwe film. Get it today
Dont be put off coz its a wwe film. Get it today
Format:DVD
This really is a dreadful movie, twee sugar coated nonsense. The ears stuck on one of the characters are hilarious and so over exaggerated it was difficult to take serious. Its like watching a really bad version of the Wonder Years.
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Reminds me of the TV series The Wonder Years
That's What I Am is set in 1965 and is a good family movie. In many respects it reminds me of the TV series The Wonder Years with Fred Savage as the film has the same narrator who... Read more
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