Redundant and unnecessary.

Memorable, crazy movie

I'll tell you why so serious

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Completely brilliant, this film has changed my life and the way I view cinema. Pretty much I now know how to: Tell the same joke over and over and over and over, Have two shots one after the other be completely disconnected and ridiculously out of sync, Fly!, Meet girls, Beat up overweight preteen skateboarder bullies, Steal from trash cans, Insert a random fake band playing fake guitar and fake drums into a terrible independent film, Paddle across a whole lake, Swim, Make friends in a brand new town, and I even learned to act convincingly enough to be in the sequel!!!! The only thing that I have to say that is not perfect about this film is that Ryans dog pretty much did a terrible job of acting like a stray, almost to the point of ruining the entire film. For this comment rating I omitted the sins the dog committed against the movie.For the record, the best way to watch this movie is with the commentary ON. Without that you can sometimes miss the directors insights into the characters minds and lives which are both deep and profound. I love this movie. I strongly recommend buying it and immediately throwing away the reciept because once the movie is in your hands it is part of you forever. This is one to watch with friends.

Flyin' Ryan is one of those movies that you occasionally see and you just can't tell if the movie is trying to be serious or if it's just one big joke. From the opening scene to the ending credits, I was laughing so hard because this movie is just AWFUL! The actors in this movie are inexperienced and it shows. No wonder! According to the biographies in the "special features", the most acting they've done is community theater.I was trying to pin-point the bad things in the movie, and there are just too many. There's not much left to be said that hasn't been said here already.The story is about a mom and a 12-year-old boy, Ryan, who move to the country with their loony aunt who's hobbies are weed whacking in the middle of the night and dumpster diving.Ryan goes into town to make some friends, but Dirk and his gang of skateboarding meanies decide they don't like Ryan's face and push him into a lake that's obviously shallow yet somehow, Ryan can't stand up until his future friend, Nicki, falls in the water as well.They become fast friends but what's not to like about a girl that knows all the capitals of every country who has twin siblings (not identical, silly!) that know baseball stats? When I first started watching this movie, I assumed Ryan would be flyin' throughout the entire movie. Silly me! The title implies that Ryan flies, and he does, but it's hardly the main point (if there IS a point) of the movie. He flies about four times -- once over a huge ravine whilst escaping the vile Dirk, once to show Nicki is AWESOME!new skillz, once across the lake to save his raccoon-slash-dog Theo from a seemingly abandoned gold mine/nuclear power plant, and once more across the lake after a successful rescue mission. I'm not sure how it could be unsuccessful when he has technological advances such as ropes that he whips out while escaping Dirk and his overtly stupid cousin.There are a bunch of random nature scenes as well. There's a nice shot of a deer and several scenes featuring extremely fascinating ducks. They're entirely too incongruous. Do they tie into the movie? No! And neither do scenes like the one where they visit Nicki's cousin and go swimming in her pool so Nicki can teach Ryan how to swim (this new found skill never comes in handy again, so what's the point of even teaching him if he's not going to out-swim his foes?) and her cousin can fix his Heelys (they never mention him getting them back, so I assumed he never did, until he whipped them out later ...). There's also the karate master that jumps over a motorcycle. He's pretty awesome because not only can he teach karate lessons in the middle of the road, he can also catch stray tennis balls! Will he ever cease to amaze? There's the intense scene in the hospital when Ryan attempts to deliver Theo to his aunt in the hospital. A police man starts chasing Ryan but gives up. He is soon followed by nurses/doctors who yell "NO DOGS! NO DOGS!" but luckily Ryan has a nurse for a mother and she somehow convinces the doctor to let the dog stay in the hospital. ("NO DOGS!" "What dog?" "OOOH... ALRIGHT! -sly grin-" I seriously could go on and on about how awful this movie is. I tried telling my friend about this movie and I just couldn't run out of strange scenarios that came from this movie.This movie was a complete waste of time and money. It provided me with a few laughs, but only because I simply could not believe that I found this movie, let alone it was actually MADE.

A delightful and insightful film that will enthrall children of all ages. I watched this wonderful flick with my daughter Hayley and she couldn't look away or stop giggling. I've lost count of how many times she re-watched the dvd since we first brought it home. Rarely does a small independent film touch the heart as well as FLYIN RYAN. Set in a small town filled with great kids and funny animals, the fantastic story is almost universal and will engage even the youngest of viewers. And it's so rare to find a children's movie that doesn't speak down to them or cater to baser interests with off-color jokes. I totally recomend this beautiful warm-hearted picture to everyone and their families.

With acting almost as bad as the filming, and scenes that make no sense whatsoever as to why they're there at all, this movie makes you wonder on which side of the line of satire it walks.I watched this with a nephew and cousin. The nephew is 4, the cousin is 5. While my cousin was occupied, my nephew was the only one entertained. SPOILERS... I guess...There are scene transitions that show scenery and such, but at one time I noticed that a couple of transitional scenes were reused. And there's a part where, for no reason at all, an un-good martial artist leaps over a motorcycle. No reason at all. It looks as if the movie was filmed entirely on a Super-8 camcorder. It's just a bad movie overall, even if it was made for small small children. Avoid at all costs, even if it's free.