This Family movie is a wonderful portrait of a young teacher who experiences the conflicts of really good(fun) teaching and the grown up world. A superb feel good movie better than a lot of Hollywood /disney productions! Thobias one of the young boys has lost his father and his new teacher mees kees also. He has sympathy for the boy, and he helps him in the struggles the boy faces. The head teacher stands for the real world with it's rules and his lack of joy and happiness. The movie is a compilation of the children books which the name Mees Kees i personally think this is one of the best dutch family movies of the last decade.Especially while the education reforms of the last 2 decades have made the profession of a teacher no longer what it use be be.
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It is a beautiful portrait of a couple off emotions of what is education and childhood happiness is
niekki31 January 2013
Warning: Spoilers
A movie from a good teacher and a young boy
nelinevanlutterveld8 February 2014
This movie told you the story from a Teacher Kees and a young boy. The teacher is coming for a woman because she is pregnant. The teacher is start for the first time and don't know what he have to do. The class is told for him and they will do a lot of funny things. One boy in the class lost his father and also the teacher. The teacher is get a special feeling for the boy and want to help him. So he let him go with his dog and he play a lot with him. But when there is control on the school everybody have to work hard because they don't want that the teacher have to go. The teacher shows with a lot of funny things that everything will be good. This movie is for all ages.
The family blockbuster that had me in tears
bigjazzfamboi12 August 2018
Enjoyable, if you can suspend disbelief
dannydenshaw13 October 2015
The premise of this kids' film is promising, if not particularly original. Meester Kees, a young student supply (US: substitute) teacher is assigned to a strict middle school whose principal believes that all work and no play makes Jack a wise boy. Kees has other ideas; he thinks that learning should be fun. His unconventional methods inevitably lead him into conflict and ultimately trouble with his boss.
The story is told from the perspective of the students and ably highlights the incomprehensibility of adults in a way that younger viewers are bound to love.
The problem with the film is that Mees Kees himself is not an inspired teacher. He is socially and professionally inept to the point of incompetence. He bumbles his way through class, teaching them nothing. In reality, his spirited pupils would have eaten him alive, rather than falling for him.
This is a charming film with great performances from the young cast, including Kees himself, but the fundamental flaw in the plot spoiled it for me. No doubt that's just because I'm getting on a bit...
The story is told from the perspective of the students and ably highlights the incomprehensibility of adults in a way that younger viewers are bound to love.
The problem with the film is that Mees Kees himself is not an inspired teacher. He is socially and professionally inept to the point of incompetence. He bumbles his way through class, teaching them nothing. In reality, his spirited pupils would have eaten him alive, rather than falling for him.
This is a charming film with great performances from the young cast, including Kees himself, but the fundamental flaw in the plot spoiled it for me. No doubt that's just because I'm getting on a bit...
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