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Title: BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
Director: Gabor Csupo
Year: 2007
Reviewed: August 13, 2007
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Four Course Meal-Highest Rating |
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I went into the movie "Bridge to Terabithia" with, admittedly, some very heavy reservations. And the C.G.I. laden previews did not help assuage these doubts one notch.
So it is with great surprise, and much wonder, that I give the movie my highest review, a FOUR COURSE MEAL.
I read the book when I was in grade school, and I remember distinctly how profound an effect the book had on me. That is why I was so reticent about the movie. The book is beautifully crafted and written, a simple story about death and grief and life, and then came the movie, produced by Walden Media, the same people who brought us "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe". The movie appeared, from the previews, to be an all-out, balls-to-the-walls, effects-heavy, summer blockbuster. It is not. They did everything in the movie, very, very well; evoking the simple wonder and tragic beauty of the book without making it heavy-handed, or even patronizing.
"Bridge to Terabithia" is a simple, beautiful story, and the movie mirrors this almost perfectly. The acting is superb, the direction flawless, and contrary to typical Hollywood attitude the entire production stuck to the story, as it should; mainly, I think, because it is so damn good.
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