Anne of Green Gables
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Movie Reviews of Anne of Green Gables
Movie Review: One of the best classics ever
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful, heartwarming story starring Megan Follows as AnnE an orphan that goes into this imaginary place in her heart with a window friend to comfort her as she endures a not so nice foster mom who works her hard and then when her husband dies suddenly, blames Anne and sends her back to the orphanage. Mistakenly, she is then sent to go and live with the Cuthberts and her real journey in life begins. She can talk the "hind leg off of a calf" and changes names of things to suite her fancy. She was supposed to be a he (meaning a boy) who was sent for to help work the farm. So upon arriving her hopes are dashed because she found the place an unbelievable, georgeous place to call home, but found she would be leaving the next morning to go back to the orphanage because she was a girl. But...I will leave the rest for the viewer to watch as a wonderful story begins. This is one of the best classic movies of all time and can you believe it is squeeky clean. All members of the family can watch without having to be embarrassed because of a scene that pops up. A very enjoyable movie that leaves you feeling good.Movie Review: I'm an Anne fan
Summary: 5 Stars
Leaving the character critiques to other reviews (since they seem to do such a GOOD job and say exactly what I would say anyway), I will instead review the DVD copy itself.After watching my taped-from-tv VHS copy a million times over, I finally got smart and bought the DVD. I am so glad I did! This DVD has the movie in it's original full-length form, with all deleted scenes (which I had never known I was missing!). Other noteworthy bonus features include cast biographies, Megan Follow's audition reels, full-feature director commentary (excellent, I might add!!), and the option to watch the film in English / French / Spanish. The color quality and sound balance are perfect. In short, aside from the fact that this is not in widescreen (understandable, since this was a made-for-tv film), I could not have asked for more in a DVD transfer of this movie. I hope you can get your hands on a copy and enjoy it as much as I did. However, you might want to shop around to get the best price.
Movie Review: Simply wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best adaptations I have ever seen. Sullivan does a great job of bring Avonlea to the screen and making smart choices about what needs to be changed while remaining true to the world Montgomery created.
The casting is perfect - major and minor characters alike are extremely talented. It's amazing to see how Megan Follows plays a 13 year old and a 16 year old, sometimes days apart, and is believable every time. Richard Farnesworth and Colleen Dewherst are magic.
The bonus features are also great - giving you the impression that getting this adaptation so perfect was more luck than craft on Sullivan's part (a perspective proven later when he destroys this "trilogy" with the joke that is The Continuing Story"), but provides an interesting commentary and details fans will really enjoy.
Everything about this film - the cast, the script, locations, costumes - works together. This is the Avonlea Anne fans have long loved.
Movie Review: Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I love can do people. After all the hard knocks the orphan Anne had endured, she is still spunky, upbeat and more than ready to tackle whatever life hands her. She is also hard working and intelligent. Even though she can be stubborn and definitely has a mind of her own, she is obedient to authority. At the beginning of the movie, Anne lives in a fantasy world, but who can blame her after all she has been through. She soon outgrows that, but never loses her vivid imagination and flare for words. I grew up in an alcoholic home and lived in a fantasy world for many years, so I understand why Anne would do that. The movie was well acted, the story touching and also funny. It is a wonderful family movie, which I highly recommend. My niece recommended it to me. She and her sisters loved the book and movies (parts one and two), and would even go around talking like Anne. My niece even named her first child, a sweet girl, Anne after the main character.Movie Review: Bring tissues!
Summary: 5 Stars
You'll need them, because you're going to laugh as hard as you cry. I loved the books as a girl, and I adore this movie, and the sequel as well. While no book and movie can ever folloiw one another EXACTLY, it keeps so strongly to the story I almost had to go back to figure out which details they left out. Megan Follows did a terrific job as Anne, and it was a great acting challenge as well, as Anne grows from about the age of 12 to 16-17 in this movie, and Megan Follows was 15 or 16, I believe. Yet her ability carried her through as a very believable 12 year old. The rest of the casting was inspired. The characters looked and acted almost exactly like I had always imagined them. Anne is human. She gets mad, she gets hurt, she acts or speaks before she thinks, and this makes her believable to any child, or any one of us who's ever done something like that. Welll worth owning, and showing to anyone who'll watch.