It's a great movie! It has a solid narrative structure that develops correctly the topics within the plot, it has a great cast of very good actors and actresses, and they all do an excellent acting, everybody does a good job in this film, the special effects are perfect, there are many good scenes, some touching, some beautiful, some very competent (the shark attack and the help she gets, or the surfing scenes, the music in the church at the beach...), the story had a direct contribution from the real people that actually lived these facts and, finally, it was correctly balanced among its perspectives, I mean, family movie, religious matters (they are part of the story), inspirational possibilities, sports, teen's problems, surfing, living close to the ocean in Hawaii, so, it's perfect! And it is a great entertainment.
The directions took by almost all critics are inaccurate or simply mistaken. The points of the movie they quote as not good are very questionable and don't give a good idea of what watching this movie really is. If you compare this movie with others recently released, that these same critics might have liked, it's so clear that these other movies are not better than Soul Surfer. This is to be said, so that we don't loose such a nice movie. Obviously it's not unanimous. There are those who don't like surfing, beach, sports, teen movies, family movies, religious issues, even seem not to like a blonde family or blonde friends. But is it forbidden? What does it have to do with criticizing the film? Try to deny the importance of the trip Bethany made to help survivors of the tsunami in Thailand is another problem. It didn't happen? It was not important for her to overcome the trauma of loosing one arm? A beautiful teenage girl as Bethany? It is just too much of criticism. And it is a very good scene, a very touching one.
Besides, it's the first movie of AnnaSophia Robb as virtually a grown up, and she was wonderful, as always. Just this detail itself is already highly significant, bus you can add to that great supporting actors, all the central nucleus of the film: Lorraine Nicholson,Helen Hunt,Dennis Quaid, Kevin Sorbo and Carrie Underwood, and even the two boys, with smaller parts in the plot.
It is a very good movie about this topic and shall please anyone that likes the main perspectives of this story (the ones quoted in the beginning). And that is not all. It deserves any nominations it gets from the most prestigious awards.
About the good or important impacts the told story of Bethany Hamilton could have in someone's life, we could take Dennis Quaid as an example. He thinks about selling his ranch and moving to Hawaii, to live a life more like that he tried in this movie.
The directions took by almost all critics are inaccurate or simply mistaken. The points of the movie they quote as not good are very questionable and don't give a good idea of what watching this movie really is. If you compare this movie with others recently released, that these same critics might have liked, it's so clear that these other movies are not better than Soul Surfer. This is to be said, so that we don't loose such a nice movie. Obviously it's not unanimous. There are those who don't like surfing, beach, sports, teen movies, family movies, religious issues, even seem not to like a blonde family or blonde friends. But is it forbidden? What does it have to do with criticizing the film? Try to deny the importance of the trip Bethany made to help survivors of the tsunami in Thailand is another problem. It didn't happen? It was not important for her to overcome the trauma of loosing one arm? A beautiful teenage girl as Bethany? It is just too much of criticism. And it is a very good scene, a very touching one.
Besides, it's the first movie of AnnaSophia Robb as virtually a grown up, and she was wonderful, as always. Just this detail itself is already highly significant, bus you can add to that great supporting actors, all the central nucleus of the film: Lorraine Nicholson,Helen Hunt,Dennis Quaid, Kevin Sorbo and Carrie Underwood, and even the two boys, with smaller parts in the plot.
It is a very good movie about this topic and shall please anyone that likes the main perspectives of this story (the ones quoted in the beginning). And that is not all. It deserves any nominations it gets from the most prestigious awards.
About the good or important impacts the told story of Bethany Hamilton could have in someone's life, we could take Dennis Quaid as an example. He thinks about selling his ranch and moving to Hawaii, to live a life more like that he tried in this movie.