Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 1.0
Terrible
I finally watched this Anne movie when I received it as part of the trilogy box set. What a disappointment! I have never read the books but I fell in love with the first two Anne movies as a tween. This movie was barely viewable.First off, it is supposed to be five years after the second movie, but the actors all look like they have aged 15 years (big shock considering the huge time difference between the making of the 2nd and 3rd films). It also took me about 1/2 of the movie to reconcile the new deepness of Megan Follows voice with the Anne character (which probably wasn't helped by the fact I had just finished watching the first two movies). I kept getting pulled out of the movie by the age lines every time a close-up of Anne or Gil appeared.Second, the relationship between Anne and Fred in London is just creepy. And the way he looks at her at then end of the movie, with Diana happily preggers beside him, made feel like I needed to take a shower to wash away the ick.Third, I just didn't like this Anne at all. She had zero of the dreamy-eyed drama queen quality that made me love the Anne character to begin with. She was kinda smarmy in the beginning of the movie and I'm not so sure they didn't cut out some love scenes with Anne and Fred and Anne and Jack because I got the distinct feeling that, despite her 'must find Gilbert' mantra, she was not true to her wedding vows.Last, not enough of the Anne/Gilbert romance. Come on...that was half of what sold the original two movies, the absolute certainty these two were soul mates! Where was the wedding! And why did it take five years to happen? No way did the Anne and Gil from the first two movies wait five more years to marry! And then him ship off with the ink barely dry on the marriage certificate, absolutely not!What was wrong with giving the fans what they wanted, more of Avonlea life with Anne and Gil as a young married couple?