Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 3.0
The nice thing about DVD's...
Is that you can skip the parts you don't like much faster than fast forwarding on video.I mention this because I did a lot of that with The Continuing Story. I absolutely loved the scenes between Ann and Gilbert and that alone made it worth the purchase. It was wonderful to see them so openly affectionate with each other.The chemistry between Megan Follows and Jonathan Crombie was even better than Anne of Avonlea, perhaps because the two actors had matured as their characters had. It made Ann and Gilbert's love for each other palpable and very romantic. As Ann didn't hesitate to say, she was scandalously in love with him and I believed it.The storyline with Jack Garrison did not thrill me and when Ann tells him toward the end of the movie that she would always think of his son as theirs, it was very un-Ann like to me. It seemed as though she was being unfaithful to Gilbert in a small way. Maybe I'm picking nits, but it was the one scene I really disliked.On the plus side, many of the characters from the first two Ann movies made appearances and it was startling to see how much they'd aged. I do admit that I wish Rachel Lynde had been more a part of the story and was certainly surprised not to see her at Ann and Gilbert's wedding. And where were Gilbert's parent's?While I was disappointed that the movie didn't have a wedding night for Ann and Gilbert, because the scene was ultimately cut, it did show up in the extras as a deleted scene. So that made me happy.All in all, it wasn't a terrible movie but it certainly could have been better.