Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 3.0
Anne of Green Gables - The Continuing Story
First - for every review that compares the "gore" in this movie to that of "Saving Private Ryan" - that's hogwash. One can hardly compare one close up of a dead soldier in a trench (and it was hardly goulish) to the blood and gore of "Saving Private Ryan". There are a few "explosions" with people thrown about, but there is very little focus on the true gore of WW1. Anyone who has seen "Saving Private Ryan" knows that such a comparison is laughable (not to mention, it's about WW2, not WW1). I had my eyes closed through more than half of "Private Ryan"...As for "The Continuing Story", BUY IT. It's not THAT bad, although it does stray completely from what I think LMM, the author, would have created herself. It's not the adventurous, funny, heart wrenching finale true Anne fans were waiting and hoping for.. true.. but it is interesting, nonetheless, AND it cannot be denied that Anne and Gilbert would have endured the traumas of WW1 - the period in which their characters existed. To have side stepped the war would have been neglectful writing.I hope there will be another "continuing story" so that fans can see Anne in a "Morilla Cuthbert" role, going through the same trials and tribulations of raising a child(ren). We want to see her challenged by neighborhood snoops and gossips... getting Diana out of her "world of doiles" and into fields of mud chasing cows, and coping with the challenges faced by raising a child who gets in even MORE trouble than Anne did in her childhood...Think of this movie as just a chapter of Anne and Gilbert's life.. just as the Disney "Anne" series do.If it's the last movie the original cast participates in, you'd regret not owning it. It's good to see them "grown up" and plucking gray hairs like the rest of us.