Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 1.0
extremely disappointed Anne fan
I first saw Anne on screen when I was 15 - I read every book about her that I could find, and have read and re-read them many times since. My friends and I watched the movies in college over and over - I never expected them to make another, and wish they hadn't! I happened to watch it on TV, and was crushed. The second movie strayed slightly from the novels in order to condense the storyline, but the names and characters and ideas were all the same. This third movie wasn't even close! I don;t understand - a movie version of Anne's House of Dreams, or even Rilla of Ingleside would have been exciting and sweet, and much more scenic. It also would have solved the problem of replacing actors - there are so many new characters in those stories, and the aging of our favorite stars would have been more natural. I was dismayed, until I happened to catch Anne of Avonlea on TV today - it reminded me of the Anne stories that i loved, and I am going to dig out my old books and read those stories again - hopefully purge myself of that awful #3!But I do agree with so many others - Megan Follows and Jonathan Crombie were great with what they had to work with. I don;t even mind not seeing them in other films - they will always be Anne and Gil to me!