"Paper Planes" - Movie.

[Robert Hart]

I don't know when this movie will find its way to your respective foreign shores. It is a good feelgood yarn and family-safe. Interestingly, it has likely started off a kid's craze for making ---- paper planes.


"The best of it is young folk doing stuff requiring precise hand-eye co-ordination as old-school constructive amusement, not knock'em down slay-kill-destroy requiring an X-Box. If Paper Planes does for good old-fashioned imagination and self-entertainment for kids like Harry Potter did for reading, then the world as we know it should be a better place. Go Paper Planes".


http://www.essentialkids.com.au/ent...n_code=nocode&promote_channel=social_facebook

http://www.paperplanesmovie.com.au/#!/home


Disclosure. I have a sentimental attachment to this movie because some of the interiors were being shot at my old school when I drove past and wondered what the circus of big trucks and marquees was all about.

 

[Robert Hart]

Footnote to the above.

"Paper Planes" is getting a good rap and solid attendances out here in Oz. It is an international story set in both Australia and Japan. Kids are beginning to tire of the wannabe reality of CGI animation which has become somewhat cookiecutter in visual style. Some are reacting to live characters of "Paper Planes" in an "I wish I was that person" sort of way and going nuts making paper planes at home afterwards.

The young lead hero is the same actor as folk will have recently seen in the Disney feature "Alexander and the No Good Horrible Really Bad Day". Sam Worthington ( Avatar ) plays the widowed father in the story.

 

[Webster Miller]

Looks like a fun movie. I hope that it makes to the US.

 

[Robert Hart]

Webster.

That is a shared sentiment.

TECH SPOILER at a rumour level. - So far as I know, the Alexa and Red EPIC systems were used on the project. There was also a BM4K used I think for background plates for the aerial visual effects. They apparently flew it with a drone.