{"id":2176,"date":"2020-06-05T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mighty-oak-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:05:00","slug":"mighty-oak-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mighty-oak-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mighty Oak Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3313c75561d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3313c75561d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mighty-oak-movie-review\/#Nick_Allen\" >Nick Allen<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mighty-oak-movie-review\/#Mighty_Oak_2020\" >Mighty Oak (2020)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Mighty Oak<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/mighty-oak-movie-review-2020\/mighty-oak-movie-review-2020.jpg\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>Kids might be into generic rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll, and playing guitar,\u00a0but do they dig\u00a0reincarnation? That&#8217;s what director Sean McNamara is hoping with his hollow &#8220;Mighty Oak,&#8221; which is making movie history by being Paramount Pictures&#8217; first theatrical release since quarantine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Ragen <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears in the movie as Oak, a 10-year-old guitar player and songwriter with a lot of promise. But Gina (Janel Parrish), sees something more in him: she thinks that Oak is the reincarnation of her dead brother Vaughn (Levi\u00a0Dylan), who was a lead singer for the band Army of Love before dying in a car\u00a0accident 10 years ago. When she sees Oak\u2019s similar mannerisms\u2014pointing with devil-horned fingers, or even drawing monkeys\u2014she becomes even more adamant about the connection, and acting once again\u00a0as the band&#8217;s manager she brings everyone back together. Lead guitarist Pedro (Carlos PenaVega) is a little weirded out that his best friend&#8217;s sister is acting this way, but wants to foster Oak&#8217;s talent all the same. Over the course of\u00a0one night, Oak learns the band&#8217;s songs, and soon enough Army of Love is happily\u00a0rocking out again with a 10-year-old in charge, who carries the soul of Vaughn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>This movie is, simply put, mighty weird, starting with the stuff you have to simply accept: that this band would want to reunite with a 10-year-old\u2019s prepubescent voice taking the place of its own lead singer, or that other adults in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> would get excited about\u00a0this grieving version of <em>Kidz Bop<\/em>. And you simply have to accept this quaint idea of reincarnation, even if the movie is too clumsy to make even a decent argument about it. This premise would excel far better, and go much deeper with its targeted themes,\u00a0in something like a\u00a0dark comedy; that &#8220;Mighty Oak&#8221; embraces this delusion\u00a0with no sarcasm and a lot of wish fulfillment\u00a0is at the very least worrisome.<\/p>\n<p>These types of family <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> always express their idealism with\u00a0wholesomeness and dramatic shorthands, and often end with\u00a0makeshift families\u00a0coming together, talking animals making friends, or even brothers bonding through being ninjas (as with an earlier Sean McNamara joint, \u201c3 Ninjas: High Noon at\u00a0Mega Mountain\u201d). So it\u2019s all the more bizarre that this idealistic, wholesome tale\u00a0is geared toward getting the audience to feel Gina\u2019s unhealthy obsession with both her dead brother and this 10-year-old. &#8220;Mighty Oak&#8221;\u00a0does take some steps to show that she might be a bit lost about everything, cluing us into her past history at a mental hospital and even a vending machine metaphor about a broken internal light, but being that these types of films are about actualizing the impossible (again, \u201c3 Ninjas: High Noon at\u00a0Mega Mountain\u201d), inappropriate fixations of\u00a0reincarnation are a wild sell. McNamara had an easier time with his earlier film\u00a0&#8220;Soul Surfer,&#8221;\u00a0that true story about a young woman who loses an arm to a shark attack, and grows closer to God.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oak, on the other hand, is practically an angel in the eyes of Gina, and the movie fits him in there to be\u00a0like a golden child with little interior life of his own. Tommy Ragen is the real deal when it comes to really playing guitar riffs and really writing the original songs performed in the movie; when he says that he stayed up all night learning\u00a0Army of Love\u2019s songs, you can believe him. But the film edits him with start-and-stop line delivery, and makes\u00a0him seem all the more like everyone\u2019s projection\u00a0of an almost inhuman\u00a0innocence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>\u201cMighty Oak\u201d has a bizarre impulse to prove itself, to prove that it\u2019s not the type of family-friendly drama of McNamara\u2019s past, but it just makes itself weirder. For one, the movie is obsessed with the word \u201cshit\u201d as if the filmmakers just now realized they could get away with it, and pepper the dialogue with the term in hopes of giving it a rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll edge. But even more so, the script by Matt R. Allen wants to show that while this film might have a pretty wholesome image of a rock band, it\u2019s not afraid of death&#8217;s weightiness (like with Vaughn&#8217;s &#8220;Final Destination&#8221;-like fatal car accident, or a grim passing later on). But\u00a0\u201cMighty Oak\u201d is clumsy when presenting its darkest stuff, and\u00a0can&#8217;t balance that with its sporadic attempts at broad humor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As &#8220;Mighty Oak&#8221; develops its\u00a0story in a direction you can&#8217;t believe, it truly has its\u00a0own fun-loving,\u00a0rocker soul that\u00a0struggles to get out. But wow, it is so strange if not laugh-out-loud funny when McNamara hard cuts from Oak\u2019s rockin\u2019 debut concert to a sullen black landscape and text that says: U.S. MEXICO BORDER, following up with Oak&#8217;s drug addicted mother Valerie (Alexa PenaVega). These types of jarring tonal changes happen throughout the movie, and instead of deepening the story they just make it more awkward. It\u2019s bizarre when a script goes off the deep end for the sake of tidiness, right up until it has to resolve all of its problems with\u00a0a couple unbelievable twists at the end, including possibly the most gullible grandparents in cinematic history. This is ultimately a story about putting a band back together, and a young kid&#8217;s fantasy of getting to rock on stage. How do you overthink that?<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Now playing at theaters and drive-in theaters today, 6\/5.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick Allen\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/nick-allen\/featured_NickAllen.jpg\" title=\"Nick Allen\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Nick_Allen\"><\/span>Nick Allen<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Nick Allen is an Assistant Editor at RogerEbert.com and is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> <\/section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mighty Oak movie poster\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/movie\/movie_poster\/mighty-oak-2020\/large_mighty-oak-poster.jpg\" title=\"Mighty Oak movie poster\"><\/img><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mighty_Oak_2020\"><\/span> Mighty Oak (2020) <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p> <meta content=\"PG-13\" itemprop=\"contentRating\"><\/meta> Rated PG-13 for thematic content involving substance abuse, language, some accident images and brief suggestive comments. <\/p>\n<p> 102 minutes <meta content=\"PT102M\" itemprop=\"duration\"><\/meta><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/features\/connecting-to-a-lost-score-by-johan-johannson-personal-effects\/thumb_pe.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 22 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/far-flung-correspondents\/malcolm-x-spike-lees-timeless-sermon\/thumb_x-image.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 2 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/the-words-are-so-good-daveed-diggs-on-central-park\/thumb_Central_Park_Photo_010104.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 2 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/features\/short-films-in-focus-lowland-kids\/thumb_lowland-kids-2.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 3 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/mighty-oak-movie-review-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mighty Oak&#8221; Kids might be into generic rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll, and playing guitar,\u00a0but do they dig\u00a0reincarnation? 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