Every Kid in America Should See "HOOT"!

[MarianJack]

We rented a few movies for this long holiday weekend. Tonight we watched "HOOT".

It is definitely geared toward kids, but it's a good & fun story. It's about 3 friends who are trying to protect a construction site where burrowing owls make their habitat against a Pancake House conglomerate.

It's about middle school age kids who challenge authority because they have principals and the courage to stand up for them when it's not necessarily the popular thing to do. It's about taking a stand for what's right and not following blindly because it's safe. It's about loyalty to friends and the belief that one person, or a few people can make a difference when the cause is just.

In short, it's DIRECTLY contradictory to every piece of rove, bush, cheney, rumsfeld, rice & MSM horseshit that has been crammed down the throat of America in general and kids in SPECIFIC since the idiot in chief read about a goat for 7 minutes while 3000 people burned to death.

ChicaAzul and I enjoyed it very much. Even more important, our 6 year old son enjoyed and UNDERSTOOD it!

We agreed that if our son ever took a stand for what's right like the kids in the movie, we'd be standing right there with him. Kids need to learn lessons like this. Especially today!

Watch it with you kids. You won't be sorry.

PEACE!

[WildClarySage]

1. And it has Jimmy Buffett in it, too.

The book's really good, too. It was a fun read-aloud together story.

[MarianJack]

2. I Hadn't read the book,...

...but probably wiii now.

Jimmy Buffett is always a nice addition!

[BrotherBuzz]

3. In my perfect world every kid in America should READ 'HOOT'

I'm a huge Carl Hiaasen fan and I was just tickeled when my ten-year-old son checked the book out of the library on his own volition. He thought it was great.

[MarianJack]

7. READ Absolutely!

Seeing te movie would be good, too.

Before checking the DVD I hadn't known it was a book. Now i'll read it.

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. Then my kid must have the perfect reading teacher

'Hoot' is the first book she assigned this year. How cool is that?

[BrotherBuzz]

14. WAY COOL!

:thumbsup:

[leftchick]

17. My son read it too

and Flush! He loved them both! I have read every one of Carl's books. I love him!

[astonamous]

4. I read the book not knowing it was really a kids book...

I love Carl Hiaasen.

Trudy
www.pryorsplanet.com

[MarianJack]

8. As a Former Teacher,...

...I know that there are a lot of great kid's books that could have adult appeal, too.

2 of my favorites are "The Giver" by Lois Lowry & "A Ring of Endless Light" by Madline L'Engle.

ChicaAzul mentioned "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" & "Warriors Don't Cry". I haven't read the first but HEARTILY endorse the second.

I think that young people's literature could be a gold mine of great & meaningful stories.

PEACE!

[stillrockin]

5. Hey, we watched it this weekend too!

Great movie, lots of fun, with an important message. :popcorn:

:applause:

[MarianJack]

9. (Mini-Spoiler) I Also Loved...

...how the 2 baddies get what's coming to them!

I love seeing a bully get bitch-slapped by a GIRL!

[otherlander]

6. I read the book last year.

It was a pretty great story. K&R.

[MarianJack]

10. On My Next Trip to Barnes & Noble,...

...a very blue chain, I'll check it out, too!

[MarianJack]

11. A Post Holiday Kick...

...for the parents out there.

PEACE!

[Earth_First]

13. Thank you for the suggestion! We'll certainly be reading the book. n/t

[MarianJack]

15. I'm Going to get the boo, too.

But I'll also get the movie. The whole family enjoyed it, ChicaAzul could show it in school and Movie Gallery & Hollywood Video sell used DVDs cheap.

[ComerPerro]

16. yeah, it was a pretty good movie

[MarianJack]

18. Very True,...

...Thanks.

[SoCalDem]

19. My grown up son (and I) like the book..

I think it won a prize for Hiassen..I have seen him talk about this book, and a lot of it is autobiographical.. There was a time when Florida was a child's paradise.. not all asphalty and stucco-y..

[MarianJack]

20. There was also a time...

...when kids were taught to stand up for what they believed was right, not to grovel in fear.

I was taught that. ChicaAzul & I are teaching that to our son.

If, when he is a jr. high student, he and his friends are standing in front of a bulldozer, he'll find his mother & I standing at his side.

[Hamlette]

21. and adults should read anything by Carl Hiaasen

the author of Hoot. Especially Double Whammy or Tourist Season. He's laugh out loud funny.

[RandiRhodesArchives]

22. Oh god yes!

Carl is by far an American treasure!
Am I the only person who liked the movie version of Strip Tease?!
First time I saw it, I HATED it! But next few times I saw it, it grew on me, and as Carl said best when I saw him speak live in Miami "hey, at least they kept the weird shit in it!" (or words to that affect!) ie. the bouncer trying to put a dead bug in his yogurt to sue the manufacturer, Burt Reynolds character smearing vaseline on his chest.

[Hamlette]

26. I'd read the book before the movie, so I started laughing before

the movie really started....and was one of the few in the theater unable to stop laughing.

His books are hysterically funny. I can quote at length. . ."Unspeakable crude, even for a couple of guys who have spent their lives in red neck bars and minimum security prisons."

You gotta. . .

(he was well loved before he did kids stuff. I've not read Hoot, maybe I should pick it up.)

[MarianJack]

24. I Will Check Out Some Of His Work.

As I said in another response, kids literature can be a GOLDMINE of great stories.

[ThatsMyBarack]

23. I saw HOOT just the other day!

I "read" the book, too (on audio CD). Both the movie and book tell this wonderful story really well. However, it was embarrassing that the bully was my namesake (Dana). I guess he was mad to have a girl's name! ;)

[MarianJack]

25. Sorry about that.

I love how the girl scares him so much and she treats him with such disdain.