Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 1.0
I am in the depths of dispair.
This is the most tragical thing that has ever happened to me. As a child and into my twenties Anne has been my favorite character to appear in any movie anywhere (much to the scoffing of much cooler friends)! The movies were the incentive to finish my essays, they eased that boredom of wet Sunday afternoons and they were my christmas movies. I found myself recently living far far away from my home and decided to revive my avid watching habbits to rid myself of homesickness. You can not imagine my elation when I found that there was a third movie (at the age of 11 I wrote to Keving Sullivan asking him for more - he replied saying it was in the pipelines). After watching this movie, a little bit of the romance has died. Anne and Diana have lost their kindred spirit connection. Gil has only a smidgen of charisma and the story is all wrong. How is it that I - a mere English teacher - can think of so many ways that the story and the dream could have been preserved. With Rilla's story being made insted, for example. Anne, Gil, Diana, Rachel and even Josie Pye could have come back as minor parts (Fred should have been restored by the same actor or left out completely) and new talented actors and actresses could have been bought in to create a new dream.In short it is a watchable movie if you have no emotional ties what so ever to the first two movies and the books, but if you are looking for that same feel good romantic atmosphere of the first two movies leave it in the box!!