Synopsis
A young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.
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Cast
- Luke WilsonDelinko
- Logan LermanRoy Eberhardt
- Brie LarsonBeatrice "The Bear" Leep
- Tim Blake NelsonCurly
- Cody LinleyMullet Fingers
- Neil FlynnMr. Eberhardt
- Clark GreggMuckle
- Kiersten WarrenMrs. Eberhardt
- Jessica CauffielKimberly
- Dean CollinsGarrett
Recommendations
- 60
L.A. Weekly
Hoot is flatly directed by talk-show-host-turned-sitcom-director Wil Shriner, but the young actors are spirited and appealing, and the movie's low-key anti-establishment posture is vastly preferable to the knee-jerk fulminations of a Michael Moore. - 58
Christian Science Monitor
Shriner's direction has an Afterschool Special blandness, but those mechanical owls are quite realistic. While the film was in production Hiaasen said that he had "nightmare visions of the gopher in 'Caddyshack.' " He needn't have worried. - 50
The A.V. Club
The kids Hoot is aimed at weren't around to see all the previous films it echoes, particularly the toothless Disney live-action films of the '70s. They'll probably like Hoot fine. Everyone else in the audience is likely to nod off and have genial, bland, easygoing dreams. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
A blandly generic family film. - 50
Variety
Squeaky-clean, family-friendly opus. - 50
Dallas Observer
Your individual tolerance for Jimmy Buffett music will determine how well all the scenes set to his music go down. - 50
Chicago Tribune
The songs take some of the sting out of the numerous scenes involving alligators, snakes, attack dogs and bullies. Yet in their lazy way, they're one more reminder that kids are better off with a book than a middling movie adaptation of a book. - 50
The New York Times
This sweet-natured but plodding adaptation of a young-adult novel by Carl Hiaasen could have used a little less broad satire of corporate greed and a few more, well, owls.
