Kinda dissapointed

Don't get me wrong, it is a cute movie, but the trailer made it out to be something it wasn't.

I thought Nim was going set out on a perilous adventure to find her missing father in the face of storms and pirates. Instead, all we see is her throwing some lizards at a bunch of tourists and spending the rest of the time mopping around her house until her father COMES TO HER.

If you look back at children in survival/adventure movies, girls always have it so easy.

For example, look at the Original Black Stallion. Boy stranded on an island, by the time he is rescued all he had is a tattered pair of shorts. He had to hunt his own food and build his own shelter.

Now if you look at Island of the Blue Dolphin, a young girl is stranded on an island. However, she just happens to come across an abandoned village and finds all the supplies she needs to survive. By the end of the movie, she doesnt have a strand of her combed hair out of place, much less a tear in her clothes.

They took the novel Lord of the Flies and made it into a movie, then they remade that movie later. Do a google search and see how many novels there are about young girls in the same situation. I've come across THREE. One of which was a best seller. Of course the movie industry had not touched any of them.

What about the novel 'Baby Island' two little girls are not only shipwrecked with nothing but the clothes on their back, they have to care for a bunch of little babies as well. Sounds like a cute idea for a movie? Nope. The movie industry has ignored it. If it were about two boys rather then girls, it would have been on the big screen by now, and the boys would have every peril imaginable thrown in their path. I bet if they do someday make Baby Island into a movie, the girls will just 'happen' to find a washed up suitcase full of clothes (1 problem solved) and then come across an abandoned cabin (shelter problem solved).


Before you all think I sound like a nutcase, what I am really trying to say is that they need better young role models showing what girls can do in the face of danger rather then Happy go lucky, glitzy premadona Hannah Montana crap.

~Sarah

P.S The Girl who knew Tom Gordon was going to be made into a movie, starring Dekota Fanning. They were ready to start filming but Hollywood turned it down. Why? Probably because it dealt with a 12 year old girl surviving by herself in the woods, which they think is impossible for a girl of that age to do. Again, if it were The Boy who loved Tom Gordon' You'd have already seen it on T.V.