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Title: I wouldn't spend money on it
Review: I was highly unimpressed with The Mighty. Here we have another 'strong friendship between two outcasts and one of them dies' movies, which I believe is a difficult genre to do well. The problem is that the friendship doesn't start until after the movie begins, and 2 hours (or however long it was) is too short to develop that. If you want to see a movie with the same general idea that is done well, rent 'Simon Birch.' One reason it does well, aside from its strong story line, is that the friendship is already established and the viewers can get on with the events of the plot. Acting was decent at best in the movie. Many times it looked prefabricated, such as the sewer scene and the ambulance scene. And the knight motif got real old, real fast. There's plenty of other movies worth your dollars out there-don't waste them on this one.
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