Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 1.0
stay away if have any consideration for the author at all
An ardent Anne fan since third grade, I've seen the first two movies (Anne of Green Gables, and Anne of Avonlea) and I continue to be surprised with the caliber of those two films. Anne of Green Gables remains overall faithful, and is a delightful film. Anne of Avonlea attempts to combine three of the books into one film, and although many character changes, stays true to the overall sentiment of the books. I was flipping channels one night however, and I saw that a new Anne movie would be on, (The Continuing Story) which I had not seen. At the end of the movie, I thought that, I would be sick. Even other members of my family who have read the series, but really had little or no opinions about them, shared my sentiments. I was so outraged that I wished to see the author of this script, and ask them how they were hired, for they should have been fired upon the first draft. In this movie, there is nothing, that at all relates to any of the books. The characters zoom forward in time, placing Gilbert in the middle of war, when in the reality of the series, Gilbert was far too old to fight, and it was Anne's sons who went away. None of charming characters from Anne's later lives are present, and are replaced by idiotic characters, including the token "Yankees" Anne meets in her journey. The baby Anne adopts in the series is supposed to be a parallel to the baby her 17 year old daughter (yes...17 years old, and this is her YOUNGEST daughter) during the war, but in the series the baby is ultimately returned to it's father. This movie made me sick, and it will to anyone who cares anything at all about preserving one of the greatest works of fiction. On top of it all, it's simply what one would call a bad movie, plain and simple regardless of it's staying true to the series...it was baaaaaaad