Flatland: The Movie
by Dano Johnson, Jeffrey Travis
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Actor: Kristen Bell, Martin Sheen, Michael York, Tony HaleDirector: Dano Johnson, Jeffrey Travis
Brand: Flatland: The Movie (Home Edition)
Writer: Seth Caplan
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Published)
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 36 minutes
Published: 2008
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Platform: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Studio: Flat World Productions, LLC
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9781604615371
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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DVD Reviews of Flatland: The Movie
DVD Review: Wake up the class
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are a teacher hoping to get your students actually thinking, show them this.DVD Review: Great tool for teachers!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a high school math teacher, and for the past couple years I have shown my students this movie whether they were in a lower-level or Honors-level class. Regardless of age or skill, they have absolutely loved it. Watching and discussing the movie is consistently among their favorite memories of our class. More importantly, their curiosity about tesseracts (fourth-dimensional analogs of a cube) and string theory (which hypothesizes eleven dimensions) extends well beyond the classroom.
When I began teaching, the only popular movie about math was Donald in Mathmagic Land, a Disney film from 1959 featuring Donald Duck. As enduring as that movie has been, I can say from experience it doesn't connect as well with modern students.
Flatland: The Movie doesn't have that problem.
There are a few notable differences from the book, which should be expected when trying to condense all the original material into a half-hour production aimed at children. Women are no longer the lesser of the sexes (they are polygons just like the men; one woman even serves as a boss), and the main character, now named Arthur Square, is given a granddaughter (appropriately named "Hex").
The differences here, though, don't hurt the movie. If anything, students who enjoyed the movie were enthusiastic about reading the book.
This should be required viewing for any twenty-first century math teacher.
DVD Review: Flatland Rocks!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a great rendition of the book! It adapted Edwin Abbott's story extremely well and put it into modern terms. Highly recommend it for any Flatland fans out there!DVD Review: far more watchable than 'the film'...
Summary: 5 Stars
This adaptation does stray from the original book quite a bit - but it is still a great story.
I bought both versions (the movie and the film) because I thought they would both be entertaining
I laughed and was entertained by "the Movie"- and it worked great as a fun family movie too. I will be taking this one into the classroom both to motivate some discussions and to celebrate math. It will be added to the repertoire of fun math movies in my cupboard (I actually had my school buy the educational version to keep everything legit).
It is 36 minutes long - just right for class.
I was very disappointed with "the film" was over-long (by an hour), incredibly tedious (my family groaned through it) and inconsistently executed (technically).
DVD Review: Smart, Beautiful, and Entertaining
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is beautifully animated and has a talented all star cast. It can be touching, funny, and educational at the same time. It's a clever adaptation of the classic book Flatland. I loved how they came up with all the clever 2-D representations of everyday household objects like a bed and an alarm clock. They really thought this entire world through and you get sucked in to it. You get so wrapped up in the visuals, stories, and characters, that you don't realize that you are learning so much about multi-dimensional spatial relationships. Highly recommended for classrooms and home viewing for PBS lovers like me. :)
Description of Flatland: The Movie
The only OFFICIAL version of FLATLAND: THE MOVIE. The movie features the voices of Martin Sheen, Michael York and Kristen Bell. FLATLAND is an exciting half-hour animated film adapted from Edwin Abbott's classic novel, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimension. The movie stars the voices of Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Tony Hale, Michael York, and Joe Estevez.General DVDs
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