Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 2.0
Not sure what to think
I have a love/hate relationship with this movie.Anne and Gil's deep love for each other and mutual support of the other's achievements touched my heart. Their passion for each other has clearly amplified, and they FINALLY got married. I also found it refreshing that Gil placed compassion for his patients above personal ambition.However, many other aspects of the film bothered me. For one thing, Anne is supposed to be in her twenties. I'm in MY twenties, and she looks far older than me (so does Gil). Another disturbing thing I noticed was uncharacteristic behavior from both of them. Granted, people do change (sometimes quite a bit). However, seeing Gilbert smoke and Anne drink seemed rather strange. And why is someone else playing Fred? Apparently Fred has changed a lot in his personality and looks. He doesn't even resemble the man I saw in the second movie!Like many others who saw the film, I didn't like the "spy element" or the heavy-handed war theme. I had a difficult time processing everything I watched.It also broke my heart to see Green Gables in ruins. I wonder what Marilla's reaction would have been if she'd lived to see how Mr. Harrison kept up the place. It would have been a no-nonsense approach, for sure. (Maybe a broom on his backside!)So, all that being said, I have a rather ambivalent view of this film, though I loved seeing Anne and Gil again. I grew up with the first two movies, which I still think were FAR superior in tone and quality to this one.