Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World

PG

Released Jun 26, 2015

1 hr. 29 min.

Documentary

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82%

60 Reviews

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2,500+ Ratings

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The Make-A-Wish Foundation and the city of San Francisco join forces to grant a five-year-old boy's wish to become Batman for a day, drawing worldwide attention.

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Sweet and unabashedly sentimental, Batkid Begins is an uplifting look at a selfless act that brought a city together.

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Fabrizio A

A beautiful movie based on a Make-a-Wish kid who got the opportunity to make his dream come true. So inspiring for many people!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/27/22

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Harry Luna English III 3/11/19 The Batkid documentary was a good film because of how everyone wanted to help in someway. People came from other places to San Francisco just to see Miles in his suit. When the day finally came, the police had to control the people, usually the police always have trouble controlling events likes these because no one would listen. But on that day everyone was listening they wanted to make that day as easy as possible for Miles. All the âMissionsâ? that he did were in controlled areas. One of the first missions that he had was when the riddler trapped someone in the middle of the road. The women that was trapped said she left all her belongings like her purse, cell phone and jacket on the curb. As Miles arrived there were already tons of people there so the woman had thought her stuff would have been taken. But when everyone left to the next location, her stuff was all there. Usually if someone leaves their belongings on the street the chances of someone taking are high. This just shows that everyone was focusing just on Miles and his mission. On the other hand itâ(TM)s kinda ridiculous how they had to shut down the whole city just for one person. I understand why because Miles wanted to batman but the amount of traffic that was created on that day. Other people had things to do also jobs to attend and place to be. It also would have been nice if they interview the main star of the documentary Miles. In my opinion I would give this movie three stars.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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I think this movie, Batkid, was great and I would share it to every kid dealing with cancer. The movie is a great way to give back to the kids who lost their childhood to cancer or any other disease that is happening inside their body. It was a good film because it showed that almost anything is possible and also to always has hope. Make A Wish gives the children something they love and think will never happen and turn it into a reality. The whole Batkid movie was to show that Make A Wish can do literally anything for the kid that is going through the life threatening illness. The scene when Miles and his family are eating lunch in the building and it had huge windows on it and they were able to look out and see a bunch of people that they have never met before was encouraging and showed how much everyone cared. As they were looking out, the people below were chanting ï¿ 1/2Miles, Miles, Miles!!ï¿ 1/2Â? Because they wanted him to come save Lou Seal from the Penguin. Miles didnï¿ 1/2(TM)t feel good enough to go out and fight more crime because he was tired from all the chemo that he has gone through recently. But by the crowd chanting his name it made him strong enough to go fight the Penguin. I thought that part was very engaging because it had a good mixture of the crowd and the main character. The film was also very good because the way they showed how they were able to set the whole thing up and were able to close down an entire downtown of a city was just insane. They also were able to have many people that Miles had no idea even existed. It brought a many people together. They showed how they had everything done such as having parkour classes with the guy who dressed up as Batman and that was also the guy Miles would be with all of next day dressed up as Batkid. They showed how they built all the props, how they got all the costumes. The community was so close during all this that another kid who Miles didnï¿ 1/2(TM)t even know lent him his Batman costume that him and his dad made a long time ago. He gave it to Miles out of the kindness of his heart. If he didnï¿ 1/2(TM)t do this Miles possibly would not of had a costume. They were able to get many people to dress up as the villians. Everyone chipped in whether it was calling the baseball park owner to let them use a mini field nearby, the cops and the chief of police, the mayor, EJ and his wife, his friend who played the riddler and also the guy who played penguin. I would give the movie a 4.5/5 star rating. The only reason I didnï¿ 1/2(TM)t give it a five star rating is because they didnï¿ 1/2(TM)t to great of a job talking to Miles asking him what he thought about it. If he liked it, or if he was nervous at all. They needed to talk more to the kid that the whole thing was happening for instead of talking more to the parents and other people who helped along the time. It is good they talked to the parents and other people but I donï¿ 1/2(TM)t think itï¿ 1/2(TM)s that good that they barely even talked to Miles. They had a whole little part of the movie and it was about another kid that had cancer when he was a little younger and they gave him Make A Wish and he wanted to make a video game. They talked to that kid more than they did Miles. I think this story is great but now they have to do this for every kid that has cancer and wants to be a superhero. If they donï¿ 1/2(TM)t do that it would be unfair to the other children.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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This film was about the make a wish of kid named Miles. Miles wished to be Batman so the people working in make wish decided it would be a fun idea to rent out San Francisco. The movie interviewed the people in the make a wish foundation. Bat kid was a bad film because of the way they did not interview Miles. The people in charge of the filming department had multiple people interviewed during the film and they didn't get myles to be interviewed. They got his parents to be interviewed but he was never interviewed he could have been interviewed with his parents. Another bad point of the film was how the film interviewed a random kid for like a good 20 minutes. The film had this little boy with his dad talking for like 3 minutes about the BatMan suit he made with his dad, made and how he was happy to give the suit to Miles. While this had a little importance, i feel like that they focused to much on this little kid that had little to no relevance. The movie focused to much on show everyone's reaction. I would not recommend this film for other people to watch. I would rate this film 2 stars because of them not interviewing miles. The type of Audience that would watch the film was people that were not in the best mood and wanted something to lift them up out of this angsty feeling.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Batkid is a loving and heartwarming movie about a little boy named Miles named Miles who gets his Make-a-Wish granted as he has cancer. This film shows what amazing work Make-a-Wish does to help families out by making a child's dream day come true. This movie shows humanity captured throughout, but does not really show what really went on under all the action when there were moments that were not soo happy. I feel like after the end of this film, we still do not have some of our questions which society asks such as, why is there still not a cure for cancer research, there has been soo much money raised from this event and we still do not have answers, etc. Overall, this film sends a very positive about this topic and people coming together as a whole to support an amazing cause. If I could change anything throughout this movie, there would be nothing to fix. This really opens up our perspective to feeling like a child again and brings pure happiness to everyone. Batkid is a movie which everyone should see and be recognized for humanitarian reasons like this.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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In the documentary, BatKid, i felt that both the Make-a-Wish and the documentary were well organized. Batkid was about a kid with leukemia with a dream to be batman for a day. Although everything was well organized, there were a couple of little tweaks that could have been done. For example, the documentary started off as a comic book theme. Telling miles' backstory, they showed strips of how the parents saw a bump on miles and how he was in the hospital. Throughout the documentary, they only did that three times. Another tweak is that the documentary interviewed a lot of people but not the people that mattered most to Miles, the parents. They only interviewed during the introduction and the conclusion of the documentary. This adjustment would have made the audience understand more about Miles instead of Batkid. We got to see miles happy about being batman but would have been good to understand how he felt about the whole day

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

The deeper we go into Dana Nachman's unquestioning, feature-length cheerleading film, the more uncomfortable I felt about the reaction of one person to that magical and overwhelming day. Miles.

Rated: 2/4

Aug 14, 2015

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Bill Goodykoontz

Arizona Republic

Cynics can carp. Let them. But don't be one of them.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jul 23, 2015

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Unfortunately Batkid Begins is so rigidly upbeat that it begins to seem like one of those really cheesy Hallmark movies on TV.

Rated: 2/4

Jul 16, 2015

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Patrick Bromley

F This Movie!

Sweet and winning and makes us all feel a little better about the world in which we live

Oct 31, 2019

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Bernard Boo

Way Too Indie

Nachman understands the true value and meaning of Miles' story, and with luck Batkid Begins will keep his dream alive for years to come.

Rated: 7/10

Mar 13, 2019

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Sr. Rose Pacatte

National Catholic Reporter

The message of Batkid Begins is, to me, Cynics of the world? You lost.

Aug 10, 2017

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Synopsis

The Make-A-Wish Foundation and the city of San Francisco join forces to grant a five-year-old boy's wish to become Batman for a day, drawing worldwide attention.

Director: Dana Nachman
Screenwriter: Dana Nachman, Kurt Kuenne
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Rating: PG (Some Mild Thematic Material)
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 26, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 25, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $73.0K
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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