Flatland: The Movie
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Kristen Bell, Martin Sheen, Michael York, Tony Hale Director: Dano Johnson, Jeffrey Travis Brand: Flatland: The Movie (Home Edition) Writer: Seth Caplan DVD: Region Code 0 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); Dutch (Subtitled); Greek (Subtitled); English (Original Language); English (Published) Picture Format: 1.78:1 Running Time: 34 minutes Published: 2008 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Platform: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Studio: Flat World Productions, LLC Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Flatland: The Movie
Movie Review: Flatland: The Other Movie
Summary: 2 Stars
I'll assume that the reader has alreay enjoyed Abbott's classic short novel. Perhpas you read it as a mathematically oriented youth, or perhaps as a mature reader dipping into a Victorian parody of Victorian gender and class politics. Either way, you'll find a flattened, two-dimensional version of the story you loved.
Although much more professionally done than Flatland the Film and with some big name voices, this strays far from the original story. Females, for example, are geometric and social equals of the males, and an Area 51-style conspiracy theory appears at the center of the story. Overbearing overlords of the society come across as petty tyrants - too obvious to be at all threatening, at least to any viewer in a multi-digit age group.
The mathematical commentary survives, with a pleasant "extra" from an Ivy League math professor, but that's about all that's left of Abbott's original points.
-- wiredweird