Cast for an Animorphs movie, what current actors would be best candidates?

[theyoungphoenix]

Oh, it's not adult, I'm not saying that.  Just that there's a pretty serious difference between a 12/13 year old and a 16/17 year old.  16 year olds were fighting in WW1/WW2.  It's the tail end of adolescence, and only a year or two away from being able to enlist.

Plus you'd be ditching all of the cool ideas like "let's try to live to be old enough to get driver's licenses!" and stuff.   

Yep. That totally makes sense.

[Snakie]

Its really hard to believe 13 year olds would be capable of the maturity and planning demonstrated by our group, especially as quickly as they were able to adjust.

I think that suspension of disbelief is a lot easier in the pages of the book than it would be on the silver screen.  That's all I'm saying.

[NothingFromSomething]

Not really.  There are kids like that out there, rising above the stereotypical middle-schooler crap, I guess the only unbelievable thing to me is how they're all pretty great people in different ways, all of them, and they're all a group.  I guess they're not to begin with, so that makes it less unbelievable.  Not out of the question though.

I also think, me-being-an-a-hole aside, that there's been a bit of a dumbing-down of the culture in the last 10 years or so.  Kids are simultaneously MORE grown-up now in terms of the information they have access to, and LESS grown up at the same time.

Sure, some of the smartass one-liners from Marco and stuff might be a little too witty and biting, coming from an 8th grader or whatever, but not by much.  Some middle-schoolers are dumb shallow brats, others aren't, all I'm sayin'.

Ads for the "adjusting to new circumstances" bit, the younger the better for that.  Yay for science!