So I recently watched Wonder and I'm here to bring you my review. So without further ado..........
Based on the New York Times bestseller, Wonder tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman (played by Jacob Tremblay), a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
This is one of the more heartbreaking films you will see this year. Anytime you tackle a film that has a disease as the main problem for a character, you almost have to tread a certain way to were you're not just bringing a disease to people for them to see it and raise awareness, but you have to make a film as well and the filmmakers did a terrific job in doing both. One thing you need is strong performances that are able to grip you emotionally and Jacob Tremblay does in every sense of the word and while he got snubbed for a nomination for his performance in Room, he deserves one for this film. Also both Owen Wilson and Julia Roberts give great performances although their chemistry doesn't work when they are screen together. One of the big things are the emotional moments and some of them are just absolutely gut-wrenching when you see what this little boy goes through on a daily basis. However some of the emotional moments are just there to be there without any context given to them. A big credit goes out to the Makeup department for their work in this film and making Tremblay absolutely unrecognizable in this role and when you can do that to a star actor like that, your work needs to be commended. As mentioned earlier, in a film like this you often bring attention to a disease not many people are familiar with, but one thing the film fails to do is to show August (or Auggie in the film) interacting with other kids like him and really just that interaction and the bouncing the knowledge of each other on how to handle situations really would give a sense of more hope to Auggie. Overall the film emotional in a it's story and several different moments throughout the film that are built up even more by stellar performances, however some scenes are just emotional to be emotional, some characters have no chemistry and it misses out on a few opportunities to see how the disease effects other people and not just singling out one particular case. I give Wonder an 8.5 out of 10.
So ladies and gentlemen what did you think of Wonder, what would you rate it and what did you think of my review? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
Based on the New York Times bestseller, Wonder tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman (played by Jacob Tremblay), a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
This is one of the more heartbreaking films you will see this year. Anytime you tackle a film that has a disease as the main problem for a character, you almost have to tread a certain way to were you're not just bringing a disease to people for them to see it and raise awareness, but you have to make a film as well and the filmmakers did a terrific job in doing both. One thing you need is strong performances that are able to grip you emotionally and Jacob Tremblay does in every sense of the word and while he got snubbed for a nomination for his performance in Room, he deserves one for this film. Also both Owen Wilson and Julia Roberts give great performances although their chemistry doesn't work when they are screen together. One of the big things are the emotional moments and some of them are just absolutely gut-wrenching when you see what this little boy goes through on a daily basis. However some of the emotional moments are just there to be there without any context given to them. A big credit goes out to the Makeup department for their work in this film and making Tremblay absolutely unrecognizable in this role and when you can do that to a star actor like that, your work needs to be commended. As mentioned earlier, in a film like this you often bring attention to a disease not many people are familiar with, but one thing the film fails to do is to show August (or Auggie in the film) interacting with other kids like him and really just that interaction and the bouncing the knowledge of each other on how to handle situations really would give a sense of more hope to Auggie. Overall the film emotional in a it's story and several different moments throughout the film that are built up even more by stellar performances, however some scenes are just emotional to be emotional, some characters have no chemistry and it misses out on a few opportunities to see how the disease effects other people and not just singling out one particular case. I give Wonder an 8.5 out of 10.
So ladies and gentlemen what did you think of Wonder, what would you rate it and what did you think of my review? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
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