Movie Review:

The To Kill A Mockingbird movie is different from the book because the movie cut out the whole part about Ms. Dubose and how Jem went and read to her.  Also I didn't feel the Jem matured as he did in the book.  Even though I didn't feel Jem matured as much and they cut the whole part about Ms. Dubose I still feel the movie is better.  I say this because I felt it was hard to get into but with the movie they pretty much got right to the point of things.

I think the character that was best portrayed in the movie was Atticus.  Atticus was portrayed very well in the movie because the way he was decribed in the book was exactly how he came out to be in the movie,  You could just feel the father figure come out, like he came straight out of the book.  I didn't feel Jem's character come out very well.  In the book, I felt Jem changed alot and become more mature and in the movie I just felt like he stayed the same character throughout. 

My favorite scene from the movie was the courtroom when they were questioning Tom Robinson.  I liked this scene because it really drew me into the movie more because it just seemed to get really intense especially when Tom was up on the stand telling the true story even though he knew that nobody was going to believe him, he was still up there telling the truth.

Yes, I have to say I was kind of disappointed in the movie.  I think by leaving out specific parts about the neighbor, Ms Dubois, it didn't feel like Jem grew as a character as much as he did in the book.  Also they left out huge scenes about Dill, like when he ran away and was hiding under Scout's bed.  So you didn't get to see Dill as a character very much either.  I think if I were to do it differently I would add in at least the story about Ms. Dubose.  Also I would have put Dill coming back the way he did in the book at the end.  Lastly, I would have expanded out the season changes a little more because the movie made it seem as though everything happened over the course of one school year, doing this would have also helped with the growing the characters