The Miracle Worker
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Movie Reviews of The Miracle Worker
Movie Review: who ever thought of making a remake in this time?
Summary: 1 Stars
THIS VERSION STINKS!!! Why do people get it in there minds to re-make classics. Okay remake horror movies. But not these kind of movies. Leave these alone. We were not suppose to feel sorry for Helen Keller. We are suppose to know that she needed to learn the meaning of words to understand that everything had a name. Excuse me are we not poisoned inough with feelings. Are we not feed endless junk about feeling sorry about everyone on screen. Hellen Keller needed to understand that to be a human being she needed to communicate with the outside world to be able to survive in the world. The older two versions of this story told us that. This movie only showed the feelings...EXCUSE ME, this is not what Ann Sullivan job was. She had to teach. And she had to teach an almost animal child the meaning of learning, under the most worst circumstances. The mother had her feelings in the way of feeling sorry for her child, the father was just a tyrant and Ann had her partial blindness to worry about. Ann Sullivan techniques were merrited when she had to beat the child to learn. There was nothing wrong with that. Helen Keller deserved it. That's why if you want a true film to portray the almost true story see the first two versions of this story. Don't waste your time with this Disney failure.Movie Review: who ever thought of making a remake in this time?
Summary: 1 Stars
THIS VERSION STINKS!!! Why do people get it in there minds to re-make classics. Okay remake horror movies. But not these kind of movies. Leave these alone. We were not suppose to feel sorry for Helen Keller. We are suppose to know that she needed to learn the meaning of words to understand that everything had a name. Excuse are we not poisoned inough with feelings. Are we not feed endless junk about feeling sorry about everyone on screen. Hellen Keller needed to understand that to be a human being she needed to communicate with the outside world to be able to survive in the world. The older two versions of this story told us that. This movie only showed the feelings...EXCUSE ME, this is not what Ann Sullivan job was. She had to teach. And she had to teach an almost animal child the meaning of learning, under the most worst circumstances. The mother had her feelings in the way of feeling sorry for her child, the father was just a tyrant and Ann had her partial blindness to worry about. Ann Sullivan techniques were merrited when she had to beat the child to learn. There was nothing wrong with that. Helen Keller deserved it. That's why if you want a true film to portray the almost true story see the first two versions of this story. Don't waste your time with this Disney failure.Movie Review: It would take a miracle to watch this version
Summary: 1 Stars
I have never been opposed to remakes and can think of several good ones off the top of my head such as Mighty Joe Young, King Kong, Poseidon, and Freaky Friday, but this Disney remake is so awful it defies adequate words. The acting is stiff and although the cast is well-known, the acting, except for Lucas Black as James, is wooden at best and self-conscious at worst. The pacing is off and much is due to the "reworking" of the dialogue. A successful two hour play and film was cut to a mere 88 minutes. It would have been better to cut the whole idea of remaking this film.
There was a clever and very well-acted remake back in the 70's with Melissa Gilbert from "Little House on the Prairie" as Helen and Patty Duke as Annie Sullivan. That was truely inspired casting especially as Melissa was a well-established and respected child actress and Patty Duke was the original Helen in the 1962 award-winning classic. That was a much more satisfying remake than Disney's most recent effort which doesn't appear as an effort at all.