While on the surface this may not be the greatest movie in the world (and it’s not). In fact at the time it was realeased it was the highest costing lowest money making movie ratio Disney had ever released.

That all being said part of me wished they would have gone the original plan of making this a drama and not a musical. I found the story line (based on true events) of children going on strike against Pulitzer on the price increase of newspaper fascinating. I can’t think of a modern parallel of children causing a big business to change it’s ways. I did do some brief follow up in wikipedia about the original story but it was sparse and will require more research on my part to read about the historical side of this.

Christian Bale is a joy to watch. He is one of the greatest Actors living today. The best is always to watch him while he is having fun, you can see the joy he had doing this role.

i have seen this movie over 200 times. no lie.