De schippers van de Kameleon (2003)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Directors:

Steven de Jong
Marc Willard

Writers:

Hotze de Roos (novel)
Jean Ummels (writer)

Release Date:

25 June 2003 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Adventure | Family

Plot:

Two young boy twins receive a boat of their own by a stroke of luck. It turns out to be very fast and they use their boat to help out their friends. |

Plot Keywords:

Boat | Twin | Kissing | Water Police | Sheep

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Koen van der Donk	...	Hielke Klinkhamer
Jos van der Donk	...	Sietse Klinkhamer
Maarten Spanjer	...	Gerben Zonderland
Saar Koningsberger	...	Esther Bleeker
Joep Sertons	...	Doctor
Steven de Jong	...	Evert Klinkhamer
Dominique van Vliet	...	Mem
Willeke van Ammelrooy	...	Margreet Bleeker
Peter Tuinman	...	Wim Bleeker
Rense Westra	...	Zwart
Gijs Scholten van Aschat	...	The Mayor
Tim Zweije	...	Nozem #1
Wybe Bruinsma	...	Nozem #2
Hilly Harms	...	Oma de Jong
Sipke Jan Bousema	...	Van Kampen

Also Known As:

De kameleon (Netherlands) (promotional abbreviation)

Runtime:

Netherlands:100 min

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

Dutch | Frisian

Color:

Color

Certification:

Netherlands:AL

Filming Locations:

Terherne, Boornsterhem, Friesland, Netherlands

Company:

Bridge Entertainment Group

Goofs:

Continuity: When the car crashes in the storm, the driver is stuck under the steering wheel. The driver is saved by violently tearing it out. A couple of scenes later the car is brought back to the repairshop and the steeringwheel is back.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Allemaal film: Betere tijden (#1.9)" (2007)

Casting is quite bad

I have to agree on the horrendous casting and the script as well, directing could've been better. The biggest mistake in casting was the Klinkhamer Gerben Zonderland mismatch! Gerben Zonderland should have been cast as Father Klinkhamer and vice versa. Maarten Spanjer as Gerben Zonderland looks much and much too old, while Klinkhamer looks too young. Ester looks too old, certainly with that huge bust! This is supposed to be an 11-12 year old girl!?! And they don't look like their characters either, as were drawn in the books. Neither were the twins, but that's forgivable, it must hard to find twins who can act, are the right age and resemble the book drawings. But I have to say that story and directing were worse. And such drama of the Esther character being orphaned 3 times! This is uncool for a children's movie. Why did he have to die? Other less dramatic, melodramatic solutions were possible. It looked like a Dutch classical movie, very bad. And just when we thought Dutch film had come of age and was professional .... Very big miss and they've really ruined one of my favourite childhood books.