Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 1.0
I Passionately HATED this movie
I loved the Anne series and "Rilla of Ingelside" was my favourite. This book was BUTCHERED in this movie. Walter (Anne's son) was one of my favourite characters and "Rilla of Ingelside was really touching. This movie saw Gilbert fight rather than Jem, Shirley and Walter (All Anne's sons). It was terrible!If the main characters were not called Anne and Gilbert there would be no way to tell this was a sequel of the "Anne of Green Gables" movies. It has completely left the Montgomery style and lacks depth. New characters were introduced (whom never existed in the books) and Anne was CHANGED. I felt disappointed that the producer chose to completely ignore Montgomery's ending to the Anne series for a trashy story of WWI. Especially since Montgomery wrote "Rilla of Ingleside" soon after the war, hence the book has some historical value. The movie gets historical events wrong.I unfortunatley purchased this movie believing it would be ok but I recommend you save your money because fans of the "Anne of Green Gables" series will hate it. If you really want to see it rent it because otherwise you most likely will never watch it again.This is completely different to Montgomery's writings so if Montgomery is one of your favourite authors you will be disappointed by the way the movie changes events, characters and chronological order.As many others have pointed out in the reviews the relationship between Gilbert and Anne is very disappointing. Also Anne adopts a child and goes looking for Gilbert who is missing during the war! All these things have abandoned the story Montgomery told of Anne.