Review of All the Little Animals (1999) by Stephanie W — 03 Mar 2008

This move was unbelievably sweet, it had it's sad moments but you'll feel very refreshed and uplifted after you've seen it.

The story is lovely, not the most original but I like that as it's a comforting side to the film.

The acting was top notch, Christian Bale yet again blew me away; He acted the part of mentally slow Bobby Platt extreemly well, he didn't exgatterate the part at all as Bobby seems very normal (aside from the fact that he is 24 year old who acts like a young boy) but I've met people of a similar mental state to Bobby and I can say that it was a very very relistic portrayal. I could see parts of Bale's acting which looked adlibed, eg. the way he chewed boyishly on his hoodie strings (y'know the bits to tighten the hood) was very natural and something a child would do, hell I still do that lol. The way he walked and talked, occasionally messed up his sentences, looked at things, the way he lay on the grass to sleep was very innocent as usually city people would go "ew bugs!" and there are other aspects but I'd be here all day if I continued to describe, Bobby is ultra adorable and such a likeable character who brings a smile to my face whenever I think of the story. Spectacular acting. John Hurt's character Mr Sommers was also played well - he was likable and you could understand his shortcomings, and Daniel Benzali's character "The Fat" or mr Winters? Creepy! lol, he was brilliantly solom and mono-tone, he was dislikeable in a likeable way if that makes sense.

The fine details were brilliantly done, the glint in bobby's eyes when he was happy was very sweet, and stuff Ive already mentioned and wont bother mentioning - You must watch the film instead! xD.

I loved it, my only critique would be that I wish it were a tv show as I felt I needed to know what happned after the film ended as it's open to more plot, Thats not really critique as its great as a movie but I thought I'd add that lol.

5/5!

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