Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 2.0
Decent enteratinment, but NOT Anne of Green Gables
If this were just a movie completely removed from the ties to Anne of Green Gables, it would have been a fairly decent movie, although the plot is somewhat laborious and farfetched.This is NOT the same character that you come to love in the first two movies. The dreadful departure from the books aside, you would not recognize the "new" Anne as the free spirited yet innocent girl of the first 2 movies. Where she would have acquired this new sense of "worldliness" I can't imagine (there's not a man in the whole movie whom she doesn't touch with more than sisterly affection; and the anti-war sentiment she displays is insulting to the Anne of the book series). But if Kevin Sullivan thought that this would make her more appealing to today's audiences, he was sorely mistaken. What makes the Anne of Green Gables movies so appealing (and the books even more so), is the timeless beauty, mirth, and innocence that is so lacking from our own society. It resonates with something in the heart of those who "belong to the race of Joseph", which part I THOUGHT Kevin Sullivan ascribed to. Now I wonder.