Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 1.0
Very Disappointing/A Betrayal to LMM
I am a real fan of Anne of Green Gables and all of LMM's works, so like many others I was looking forward to seeing this movie. I knew they departed from LMM's books, but I was shocked to find out how much. The story is loosely based on the last book in the Anne series, "Rilla of Ingleside", about Anne's youngest daughter during the First World War. Being the only North American woman's written account of the war, it is a very famous book, and although fiction, has historical value. In the book Anne & Gibert are middle-aged and the book centers around their young adult children, but the movie has Anne searching for Gilbert on the battle lines! Of course Anne has a flirtation along the way even though she and Gilbert are married. What were LMM's descendants thinking when they allowed this movie to be made!?The first two movies are splendid and are true to LMM's characters in ways that the third movie is not. Although poetic license was used, especially in the 1st sequel, they went a bit further in this second sequel. Anne didn't seem like Anne. Gilbert and Diana were so thin they were almost unrecognizable. How different was Megan Follows as Anne? One of my friends commented to me that she had seen the movie and actually was under the impression that the actor who played Anne was not Megan Follows!!I think the most unforgiveable thing to me is how they portrayed Anne & Gilbert's wedding, which was so beautiful in the book "Anne's House of Dreams"!My hope is that if Sullivan productions tackles such a project again that they present "Anne's House of Dreams", a wonderful story, and stick to the words that made LMM famous! Hopefully it is possible to re-do Anne & Gilbert's wedding!