Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 3.0
Nod Bad; Not Great
Well, to be honest, I liked the story more when she was younger. But also because substantial portions of this film were taken up with World War One, and I don't remember anything about Anne going to war in the books. She grows up, goes to New York with Gilbert while he's in residence at Bellevue (I was a patient there once, but it had changed significantly in the meantime), works for a publishing company, and eventually has a book published. When she and Gilbert have both had quite enough of New York (and, by implication, of Yankees), they return to PEI to discover that the people who bought Green Gables had rented it out to some trashy people who very nearly destroyed it, which broke Anne's heart. Marilla's death is only mentioned in passing.Then Diana's husband Fred volunteers for the Army, and when Gilbert goes to volunteer at a local veteran's hospital, he finds that the soldiers who are being returned home had not been treated properly in the field hospitals, or even on board the ships coming home, and he volunteers, too.Anne's letters to Gilbert come back to her as unforwardable, and so she decides to go to France and see if she can find out what has happened to him. There are many adventures in between, but she does eventually find him. Almost none of this movie corresponds to anything in the books, but that does not make it a bad movie. It's pretty good, although I seem to recall I gave the first one five stars, the second four, and this one three. Maybe it's just that Anne was actually a more interesting person when she was young.