The Boy In Striped Pyjamas (DVD) Reviews

The Boy In Striped Pyjamas (DVD) Description: Genre: Drama / Director: Mark Herman Based on a book by John Boyne Bruno is 8 years old and his father is a Nazi officer. He has no real understanding of what this implies, believing his father to be a good man, when the family (Bruno, his older sister Greta, his ...  Read the complete review

The boy in the striped Pyjamas film only review Details: Directed By: Mark Herman Release Date: 12/09/08 Certification: 12A Genre: Drama Based on a book by John Boyne Plot: When a Nazi officer and his family are sent to live on a refugee camp during World War II, his family know nothing of the ...  Read the complete review

Starring David Thewllis, Vera Farmiga, Rupert Friend, Richard Johnson, Jim Norton. This film is based on the novel by John Boyne and tells the story of Bruno the son of a high ranking Nazi officer who is given the task of running one of the concentration camps that were set up during world war two to dispose of Jewish families, Gypsies and ...  Read the complete review

I recently reviewed the book of this film and after I read it I felt inclined to seek out the film version. The film was released in 2008 and was directed by Mark Herman. I have to say that I'm not sure if I prefer the book or film in this case due to the fact that the book is so short. There is a certain amount of artistic license going on in the ...  Read the complete review

I went to see this film in 2008 (last year), when it was released. I have also read the book and I can't choose which I think is the best but I have to say that both are truly moving and intriguing. Plot: The plot is based around the life of an eight year German called Bruno. The film focuses on his life after he moves next door to a ...  Read the complete review

For the first time ever, I have to say that that film is better than the book, shocking I know, but it's true. Synopsis The story centres on Bruno, the son of a German Commandant, whose father has just been relocated to a concentration camp, but not just any camp, he's the new commandant of Auschwitz. Bruno though ...  Read the complete review

I wish I'd read the book first. I really do. This film is a very well thought out interpretation of the concentration camps during the Nazi regime in Germany, through the eyes of a young boy whose father is in charge of various death camps - most notably the one outside the house. Casted with mainly English actors, it was casted very ...  Read the complete review

I absolutely love films set in war time. I don't know why, I mean I hate war itself, but these films just seem to carry so much drama and emotion it is seemingly impossible not to become engrossed in them. The boy in the striped pyjamas is set in the second world war, and I think one of the main reason (as with most war films) that I liked the ...  Read the complete review

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is based on the book of the same name by Irish novelist John Boyne, and without any exaggeration, features one of the most gut-wrenchingly downbeat endings cinema has yet to envision. The only real solace is that it internalises the soulless violence of the Nazi regime in upon itself, but at an extremely tragic and ...  Read the complete review

I was looking foward to seeing this film so much that when mum said she would like the DVD for a hint for mothers day, i definately didn't hesitate to get it. Although i do love a bit of Drama i often think that sometimes they take it over the top with how good the film is going to be. As soon as we got it mum and my brother watched it. If ...  Read the complete review

Films about the Second World War, and the events of the holocaust are by no means a rare thing . Many of them are touching and poignant, but none of them, so far as I know, have ever looked at the events throug the eyes of an 8 year old boy . 'The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas' however, based on the novel by Irish novelist John Boyne, presents the ...  Read the complete review

I have just watched this film today, and i absolutly loved it. It's a brilliant story and it makes you think, this could have actually happened, it's that convincing of a film, that you start to think this is a true story. This film is set in Germany, just after 1937, in world war 2. The basic storyline is that a german family have to ...  Read the complete review

Being a regular cinema goer its very rare that i see a movie where the audience is so enthrawlled and stunned by the climatic finale that they do not move for moments later. In the 1990s we were given schindlers list which was so groundbreaking in the telling of the holocaust and war that it has in itself become historic, i would be confident to ...  Read the complete review

Although films about the holocaust have almost becomes cliched by todays terms, the boy in the striped pajamas provides a different spin on a horrific event. Set through the eyes of Bruno, the son of a high rank nazi officer, we view how he and his family move to the countryside so his father can work on a concentration camp (never ...  Read the complete review

I worked at the cinema when this film came out, I knew little of it apart from the fact that it had been an acclaimed childrens novel. It had a mixed reception from parents who had taken their children to see it. Some parents found that it taught their children a valuable lesson about tolerance, others were shocked at the content and felt it was ...  Read the complete review

I had wanted to see this film for some time, but had been putting it off as I was worried about getting to upset by it, based on its subject matter. I finally 'got round' to watching it and I am really pleased I did. The storyline is based on a Family of two parents and two young children, Bruno (8) and his sister (12). The father is a ...  Read the complete review

***The Boy In Striped Pyjamaa (2008)*** I first saw a trailer for this film in the cinema and wanted to watch it, but missed it and had to wait until it came out on dvd. I ordered it to rent from Lovefilm, but because of the nature of the film, somehow kept putting off watching it. Anyway, I sat down (prepared to cry) to watch it last ...  Read the complete review

I went to see this film after I had read the book and at first I thought I was going to be let down by the film as quite often the films never seem to live up to the book. I don't think I could have been more wrong. From the moment the film started to the very last harrowing scene my mind was fixed on the screen. The film is extremely ...  Read the complete review

This is the story of a young boy called Bruno, son of a high ranking Nazi officer during the war who is in charge of the infamous concentration camp Auschwitz. The unique aspect of the book and the film is that this story is told through the child's eyes. His unique interpretation of 'the fury' (the fuhrer) and 'out-with' (Auschwitz) ...  Read the complete review

I saw this movie not knowing anything about the background to the story or plot.I only knew that it had been based on a popular book.The movie is set in the second world war and tells the story of a young boy called Bruno.Burnos father is a Nazi officer and following promotion rellocates his family to the countryside to take over a new position in ...  Read the complete review