War of the Buttons
War of the Buttons
PG | 29 September 1994 (USA)
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War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.

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Stometer

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Pacionsbo

Absolutely Fantastic

Allison Davies

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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Marva

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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biomosco

I've really liked that movie because in it I could find many relations with the everyday life. One of them is that humans need to show to the others their capacity of dominate a group of people, a territory and the capacity of conquer more of those.Another important thing that I could notice in the movie was the necessity of revenge of humans. just like in the movie, we have to pay back the bad things that other people have made us; and sometimes that's not enough, sometimes we need that the revenge must be worse because that give us a sensation of superiority.Finally, I was completely amazed with the leaders of both groups because in spite of all the events I could see that there was something special between them, something that they wanted to express but they couldn't due to the circumstances. That happens with us every day, we don't do what we really want because we are always doing what the rest of the people do.In the end, it is a great movie; and if you want to find a deeper meaning, you must go further the images and the dialogs.

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andrews_07

I liked the movie very much. It was interesting and very funny; I enjoyed the entire movie, all the characters and all the things that I sow in the movie.All the characters had an excellent presentation and I watched many surprises all the time.But I think that the movie show us something that happen in our real lives, something that isn't good as I want, I don't know what is you're opinion but I think that many times we do a lot of things or we have several behaviors or actions and we don't know the reason of them.Those kids made many bad things and one sentence that for me contain the mean of the movie is "we have to find something worse" they said that respect the word "bedeo" and that happen in the rest of the movie, always those kids tried to find something worse to do to the other kids.

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CindyMur

"War of the buttons" is a story about a fighting of two gangs composed by kids. One gang is from Ballydowse and the other one is from Carrickdowse. Both gangs are headed by Fergus and Geronimo respectively.The "war" consists of cutting off their opponent's buttons as a trophy or a signal of victory during a battle.In "War of the buttons", the children shows us up an important organization as a common society even its background is still a kid's adventure from small towns.There's no need to find out a meaning in the battles or the scenes they play, well... it's not adventure acting neither... but I guess there is a simple suggestion about the roles of each person in a group of people summoned by the same purpose.The magic of childish minds into colorful places of Ireland makes a nice environment in the movie, despite of the fighting between them.However is an entertaining story about love, family, forgiveness, courage, betrayals, friendship and support; held by a cute frame of kid's brightness.I really recommend you guys to check it out if you haven't seen it.

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ablu272

I was so board but curious as to what would happen to these boys next. It was like watching a train wreck I couldn't take my eyes off of it.I did like the ending though. It was very cute. I'm still trying to decide whether i liked it or not. I think that maybe I did. The War of the Buttons is the type of movie you watch on on a rainy day just because there is nothing better to watch on TV, and you're too lazy to put a video in. The actors were talented for their age. If you like movies like The Black Stallion, then this movie is perfect for you.

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