A Wrinkle In Time
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Actor: Chris Potter, David Dorfman, Gregory Smith, Katie Stuart, Kyle SecorBrand: BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
Published: 2004-11-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of A Wrinkle In Time
DVD Review: Shoot me, just shoot me!
Summary: 2 Stars
Crap, crap, crap, it's all crap!
Aside from the fact that is sucked the whole way through, this movie stinks!
I am a huge fan of the book, and I have read it many times over. So when I found this in video form I was thrilled. My sister exactly told me that it was pretty good, I must mention here that she hasn't read the book in over five years.
I had high hopes when the movie began with a cool scene with the star giving its life for the war against Black Thing. And that's a good place to start, the Black Thing was more often then not, a purple thing or a blurring thing. There was nothing very scary about the "thing." In the book it creeped you out totally, in the movie you're like, "What? What was that? Why is it evil?"
The second thing that really bothered me was the group of boys that attacked Charles Wallace and Meg were smaller then she was? In the book, they were bigger and heavier then she was. There was no bickering and name calling between the siblings, there was a strong sense of loyalty and love.
Charles Wallace was okay, but I tended to like him better as the creepy evil child he was with it. I know that sounds bad, but you have to consider that instead of being the sweet child he was in the book, he was scornful and nasty as all the others. Blah.
In the book, Calvin is just as important to the plotline as Meg and Charles Wallace. However they buttered his part as well, they merely made him a jock. He did nothing in the movie but make some funny comments. They took a noble and interesting character and made him into a blah cardboard cutout like all the other actors.
Meg, in the movie, was a sulky self centered brat that I hated throughout the movie. All she cared about was herself and her problems. This is one of the times that I wish that, when the character complains about how much they hate themselves, their friends would say, "I hate you too." At the end when she should be delivering the lines, "I love you Charles Wallace! You are the light of my life, and the treasure of my heart! I love you, my baby brother who always cares for me, I love you!"
She's half heartedly says, "I love you and I want to always be there for you." All I can say is lame, lame, lame! Blah!
Central, central intelligence is a joke and we all know it. I like good CGI, but this stuff was laughable! You could plainly see all the fake stuff, it was like they sat down and said, "Let's see just how badly we can butcher this movie and still get people to watch it!"
Mrs. Whatsit was okay, but when she transformed into the creature and turned out to be a horse with a human head and peacock feathers? I nearly died from laughing and crying hysterically. I mean, did they honestly look at that thing and say, "Yeah, looks like the majestic creature described in the book."
Mrs. Who was the best and most faithful of all the ladies, to the book. She was quoting left and right and had a sweet endearing look about her. However I have major problems with her quoting Albus Dumlbedore like he was a real person. I am not a fan of Harry Potter and never will be and I find her quoting him beside someone like Gothre to be repulsive.
Mrs. Which was a fabrication from beginning to end. In the book she rarely appeared and when she did it was in the grab of a traditional witch, for the laughs. But she was stern and loveable at the same time. However this woman was choking in a hideous golden gown and spurting hooky clichés left and right. I hated her.
I also found the Happy Medium to be very stupid, a sweet slightly ridiculous figure in the book, this was a fat man in a turban laughing at other peoples problems! Oh, I forgot to mention the fact that He/She claims to be neither man or woman therefore making gender meaningless. I wish they had killed him off.
In the reading of "A Wrinkle in Time" there is a heavy spiritual sense about it. Biblical figures are mentioned as warrior in the fight against the darkness, not artist and humanists. The bible is quoted in the singing of the beast on Uriel and not just something vague about, "Joy."
Why is it that whenever Hollywood takes a strongly christen story that they turn it into something humanist about believing in our own human powers? I think everyone should have a health amount of self confidence, but not to the sappy and dangerous level they pump it out in this film. They very thing they were saying you should have is what made Charles Wallace fall into the trap of it, in the first place.
The man with red eyes was not supposed to speak outwardly but mentally. He was silently menacing. In this film he was overly emotional and silly, albeit, he did have some killer lines. But they combined his character and that of IT. Instead of the pulsing brain on a dais they had a huge pulsing CGI...thing. It meant nothing to us and all my family thought it was a bunch of worms.
Nowhere is the awesome scene where they reject it using nursery rhymes, or the quoting of the Declaration of Independence. This was a powerful scene they cut completely, and they make the beasts on Ixchel big furry wookie like creatures out of the Twilight zone. Stupid!
All in all this film should have been given another name because this is not the story of "A Wrinkle in Time" I would never encourage anyone to buy this film, either would I encourage anyone to watch, even for free.
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