Very Nice and Enjoyable Family Fun and a message at the end.... Truly Miss such Chill out family fun movies, we once used to enjoy so much during the 80's and 90's..... But now we hardly witness such good and family fun movies but mainly witness only 3D, action , Science fiction..... Focusing too.much on technology, we have gradually losing the substance in it that made movies so sweet and memorable...... Good Actors and Oh I love the music and songs in the entire movie..... DEFINITELY GO AND WATCH IT.... If you truly miss those Old Golden Family Fun movie day's.... It will definitely take you back there..... ENJOY..... TUMPBS UP IF IT HELPED YOU..... MY MESSAGE TO ALL OF YOU......... " USE TECHNOLOGY ONLY HAS A TOOL, AND NOT HAS A NECESSITY...... AND START TO LIVE YOUR LIFE MORE NATURALLY. "

Never had I seen a movie so bad, that i wanted to throw up. This movie is so unrealistic that it hurts, it should be an animation more than a movie. This makes me sad, displaying our adult audience as people who have half a brain, do not have any type of common sense, and the worst part is how this blonde kid never got charged for the numerous crimes that he took place in. Let alone the kids despite "saving owls" broke laws that were not even related to the plot. Proving a point is fine but this movie is teaching kids to break the law and its OK as long as you "save a certain type of creature."

Hoot is a pleasant and innocuous comedy about a trio of teens who save an owl nesting place from being bulldozed to make way for a fast food type pancake house. As if Florida didn't already have enough of them.The teens are Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, and Cody Linley. The characters seem to be borrowed from Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn. Well if the Magic Kingdom is going to borrow, borrowing from someone like Mark Twain is certainly a good idea.Lerman is a new kid in town who because of that becomes the target of the school bully. But when he's not dealing with that or when Ms. Larson isn't dealing with Eric Phillips the bully, he's gotten himself in their crusade to save some owls who have nested on the property the corporation wants to build on. This is by no means a new theme for Disney, as far back as Cesar Romero and Keenan Wynn played tycoons whose only interest is making money no matter what the cost.I like what Cody Linley did with his role. He's the barefoot kid just like Huckleberry Finn along the Mississippi only here its the sands of the Florida beaches. Hoot is nothing terribly special, but it is a pleasant 90 minutes viewing.

1st watched 10/8/2008 - 4 out of 10(Dir-Will Shriner): So-so environmental movie about a wild child protecting a group of burrowing owls from getting bulldozed by a pancake house trying to break ground for their 100th restaurant. This movie was watchable for awhile but then kind of got high-and-mighty with it's environmentalism and became very predictable about halfway thru. The story revolves around a family moving into a new town in Florida and the son being mesmerized by a barefoot kid running alongside the school bus, obviously not attending school. We find out later he's kind of hiding from his parents so he won't get sent to military school and vandalizing the property where the pancake house is supposed to go in his spare time. There are a couple of side stories like a school bully picking on the new kid, and a bumbling cop, played by Luke Wilson, that has some funny moments. The main story line though revolves around three kids trying to influence a corporation to change their minds about where to place their business. The music, by Jimmy Buffet, doesn't help the movie and is mostly pretty lame -- Buffet actually also appears in a cameo role as a teacher. This is basically it for this movie. I'm sure that it can be enjoyed by some of the younger folk, but there's not enough quality behind it to keep most viewers involved for the whole 1 hour and a half. It probably would have been better as an afternoon kids special than a motion picture.