Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 1.0
Complete and Utter Disregard for the Books
I hate this movie. I watched Anne of Green Gables for the first time when I was 8. I fell instantly in love with it. They did a wonderful job capturing the innocence of Anne and her high spirits. I loved it so much I had to read the books. To my amazement I found the books very difficult to read. The books said 6th grade reading level and I felt very proud to be able to finish them. I have read and re-read the books (all 8 of them) again and again to help garner an understanding of life so long ago. I still read the books to this day at the age of 27. I love their innocence and I empathize with Anne's long journey into growing up. What I liked the most was that the last 2 books of the series are written from her children's viewpoint. We see WW1 rip into their lives in book 8. Very tragic now that Anne is a mother of 7 children and some of them are marching off to war. I hated the movie in that it jumped time so badly it completely cut out her marriage, the childhood of all her children, and the coming-of-age story of her youngest daughter. Somehow they justified skipping 20 years for the 3rd movie. I was so excited to find that Sullivan Pictures was going to put out a 3rd Anne film I automatically assumed it was going to cover "Anne's House of Dreams". I didn't know they were going to ignore the books completely and do whatever they felt was the most commercially beneficial. I don't even think the writers read the books. They couldn't have or they would have realized how upset everyone would be over the final product. Please do not watch this movie. Spend the time watching Anne of Green Gables and Avonlea, not this awful piece of trash. Read the books, they are true classics.