Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 2.0
Not Really Anne of Green Gables
I bought this DVD and was excited to watch it since I had seen the previous ones. I had heard that it veered away from the story but I still wanted to see it.I have not read the books but I was disappointed. You compare this to the first two and there's just not a lot of delight in watching it.What I thought made Anne Shirley so wonderful to see was that she was this orphan who brought joy to everyone whose life she touched and yet I saw no joy coming from her interactions with other people.I found her friend Diana's marital problems totally uncalled for. I find it hard to believe that was in any books as L.M.M. seemed to write upbeat things. I found Diana totally unsympathetic and the portrayal of her enemy Josie was just awful. Josie was always stuck up but here she was portrayed as a self riteous shrew! I didn't like to hate her in this story as in the past stories, I just wanted her to go away and for Anne and Gil to welcome her with open arms at their wedding? Please...Gil was Anne's love of her life so why was Gil absent for most of the movie and Anne's thrown into a relationship with a cad who's had a love child? People have said that Anne and Gilbert had children why was it so important for Anne to adopt someone's love child and for her not to even be expecting a child in the end?Anne in the previous movies seemed to have a knack for solving other people's problems and here she's just having problems thrown at her. To put Anne Shirley Blythe in the middle of a war zone just seemed totally over the top and out of the realm of what Anne should be doing.Someone said that there was a wedding night scene that was deleted in the American version however, I wish I could have seen it because with the way it all played out, I was wondering if Anne and Gil had even consummated their marriage before he left.Overall, not the greatest movie I've ever seen and compared to the previous Anne movies, it's a big disappointment.