idan-altman This film is an insult to free thinkers, Buddhists, communists and everryone else who have a working brain. The plot and characters are unrealistic and if you want to watch a film about an egomaniac who raises their kids according to their own will Dog Tooth is a much better choice.

Laura Dankel Of course we hated this. Instead of telling the kids to be good Christians and obey god and President Donald j Trump it tells the kids to "think for yourself." Disgusting. If they think for themselves what happens when they don't buy lady Ivanka Trump merch? And then there will be a backlog of containers from China. Of course, that won't happen and I exaggerate because we real Americans will always buy Ivanka merch, but just saying.

markgibsonuk-04768 Very good and affective Hollywood sentimentality. Lovely scenery, fine acting, and dramatic use of musical hooks. So far, so good . The froth is very well done.The substance, however , is unbelievable drivel . As usual with this type of 'feelgood' pap the underlying message is concrete, establishment, American dream. Whatever else happens the dream wins - there is only one way to live and be content and that is to grovel before the adman's spiel and totally resign to their whims. The entire plot is based upon the emotional freak out of a family within the 1% financially and culturally and has no connection whatever with the vast bulk of humanity . None of what happens could or would occur in any normal family - largely because they wouldn't have the hard cash to indulge in such flippant nonsense, but primarily because all of the consequences of this family's actions in this film would hang far more heavily and permanently upon a middle/working class group. The froth continues in a lame and frankly offensive view of mental illness and a frivolous take on cultural differences . For anyone with a fully functional frontal cortex the morality play is so simplistic as to be risible - right and wrong are literally thrown down the toilet. This might have been a truly moving and authentic piece had it been set in normality rather than in extreme privilege .

Pjtaylor-96-138044 'Captain Fantastic (2016)' is a refreshingly honest and heartfelt feature which manages to be surprisingly emotional, almost making me tear up on a couple of occasions, and isn't simply signified by its intrinsic eccentricity (so often used as a marketing trick) but rather infinitely enhanced by it. The narrative never becomes clichéd or rote and the excellent performances always keep the sometimes outlandish happenings both grounded and wonderful. Once it reaches its apparently promised conclusion, however, it slows down and starts to head in a slightly generic, if necessary, direction. Thankfully, though, the emotional core still remains and it isn't long before the film is back to its own off-kilter brand of heart-felt shenanigans as it moves towards an off-base finale which, though it could be somewhat morbid in lesser hands, is here truly touching and a beautiful note on which to end. 8/10