Like Stars on Earth Reviews
April 22, 2013
Pretty great movie. Very inspirational. I wish some teachers would care as much as the art teacher on the movie cared. The only flaw was that i couldn't understand what some people were saying, which made the movie pretty slow for me.
April 1, 2013
How bad are the teachers in India that it took a special-needs teacher to diagnose dyslexia? Young Ishaan got left back in third grade, where he admits "the letters are dancing," and NOBODY figured it out? Weak sauce. This is a story that tries to be full of heart but instead is long and weepy and overdone with Bollywood's staple, the song and dance routine. Well meaning, but ultimately not worth the runtime.
February 25, 2013
An eight year old boy is thought to be lazy and a troublemaker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school
December 25, 2012
It may be drawn out at points, and it may have its flaws, but it's a powerful story that should be seen by anyone who works with kids.
August 26, 2012
The best Aamir Khan film yet!... Very touching and so captivating... More to be endured than enjoyed!... I love this movie....
November 5, 2012
Linda película, un casting muy bien logrado, una música genial y una historia hermosa.
Connor G.
November 3, 2012
Watching the kid mope for half the movie was thoroughly unenjoyable, but, naturally, Aamir Khan saved the movie with his magnetic persona. He's quite the performer, and obviously a huge believer in human goodness, beyond the idealistic point, but he's always fun to watch.
September 19, 2012
Children are truly stars on earth; fill them will the iron-like coldness of society's formula for success, and they're likely to implode. Nurture them and employ patience with a nuclear passion, and they'll burn bright forever. Every child deserves infinite opportunities, for they have infinite possibilities.
No human is the same, and no one learns the same. Education should be personal, and its systems evolved to incorporate more than goals to meet generalized testing standards. The price of time and money shouldn't exist in regards to cognitive, creative, and spiritual evolution.
The story and arching lessons that this film portrays reverberates throughout my soul, largely due to interpersonal experience. I lost approximately a pound of bodily fluids in the form of tears while watching. It is told through the eyes of a dyslexic young boy with ADD, Ishaan, who reminds me of my youngest brother--both being humble and imaginative.
Children are truly stars on earth; fill them will the iron-like coldness of society's formula for success, and they're likely to implode. Nurture them and employ patience with a nuclear passion, and they'll burn bright forever. Every child deserves infinite opportunities, for they have infinite possibilities.
No human is the same, and no one learns the same. Education should be personal, and its systems evolved to incorporate more than goals to meet generalized testing standards. The price of time and money shouldn't exist in regards to cognitive, creative, and spiritual evolution.
July 18, 2012
Even After watching it 10 times one will still cry, laugh, dance with its lead small star & that is it's biggest strength.
