Flatland: The Movie
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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
Movie Review: disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a disappointing rendition of Abbott's classic novel. It is very professionally produced but lacking in originality, and of limited educational value. A great opportunity missed. The interviews with the actors are (unintentionally) hilarious.Movie Review: FLATLAND: THE MOVIE
Summary: 1 Stars
Flatland: The Movie
I HAD TO GIVE 1 STAR, THE SYSTEM WOULD NOT LET ME GIVE IT NONE. THE BOOK IS NOT ONLY A GEOMETRY TEXT BUT A SATIRE AND COMMENTARY ON VICTORIAN ENGLAND AND ITS RELEGATION OF WOMEN TO SUBORDINATE LEVELS AS SECOND CLASS CITIZENS. THE DVD IS NOT ONLY A MEDIOCRE GEOMETY LESSON WITH POOR GRAPHICS AT BEST, BUT IGNORES ABBOTT'S SCHOLARLY TREATISE AND SUBSTITUTES A MODERN AMERICAN PSYCHO BABBLE ABOUT "FOLLOWING YOUR DREAM". THE COPYRIGHT MUST HAVE EXPIRED ON THIS WORK. I CAN'T IMAGINE ANYONE OWNING THIS PROPERTY APPROVING THE TRAVESTY THAT THE SCRIPT FOR THIS 25 MINUTE DVD IS.
Movie Review: Disappointment
Summary: 1 Stars
Save your money and get the book. Another case of Political Correctness run amok. I should have know better.