NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Ian (Flash Review)This is categorized as a Western but it is just as much a sprawling telling of Jack Crab's tumultuous life. This film follows his life from when he was being partially raised by Native Indians as a young boy to partially adopted by 'white folk', later in his life. He has unusual and amusing interactions with Wild Earp as well as General Custer. The spectrum of his various adventures are normal-ish yet very strange at the same time. Sort of like a Rene Magritte surrealist painting; something is off. The film also is very 'tongue and cheek' anti-white person and conveys Native Indians as the normal and rational by referring to them as "human beings". Overall, it was entertaining to follow his winding and take what life gives life journey.

SnoopyStyle 121 year old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) recounts his life in the old west. He claims to be the sole white survivor of Little Bighorn. He and his older sister Caroline are the sole survivors of Pawnee. They are taken in by the Cheyenne. Caroline escapes but Jack is adopted. He is captured by US troopers, apprentice with a snake-oil salesman, becomes a gunslinger after reuniting with Caroline, meets Wild Bill Hickok, marries and bankrupted store, follows Custer, reunite with the Cheyenne and then tricks Custer into Little Bighorn.This is part tall-tales, part satire, part historical reimagining and more accurate than most old western. It is smart and funny. It takes sharp jabs at the old image of Indians. Dustin Hoffman is brilliant in this new world western epic. It does take random turns which is part of its charm.

gavin6942 Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman), looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.This film starts off strong with a relative young William Hickey. Unfortunately, Hickey quickly fades away and is forgotten. Why could he not have been a bigger part of this story? But that personal bias aside, this is a solid film. I am not a big fan of the western genre, but this is not your typical western. Rather than good guys or bad guys, it is one man's story growing up with the Indians before later encounters with George Custer. Apparently this story is based (more or less) on a real story.

marksez If, by chance you have not read the book, read the book after you see the movie. The book is thick and full of well researched history, and it takes the reader on a journey through time through the eyes of the fictitious Jack Crabb. See also too, The Return of Little Big Man, which picks up where the first story leaves off. Seeing the movie first will set the scenes and the characters in your mind.Even though the movie had to shorten the story out of necessity for time, it is a great story. Some of the historical sequencing is out of sequence (for example, Wild Bill was actually shot in August of 1876, after the Battle of the Little Big Horn). The characters are all great, especially Custer. Though I am sure that Richard Mulligan's crazy, comic Custer is a world away from the true Custer, it is a wonderful performance. This movie, though it has its humorous moments, is really about the history of the 1800's and the savagery and white man as the conqueror of the West beliefs that were a part of that history.The book is better than the movie, but the movie is great.