Bridge to Terabithia Reviews

This is a fantasy/drama film geared toward younger children/pre-teens but people of all ages are enjoying it.  One must be forewarned not to get the 2007 version confused with the 1985 verion that starred Annette O'Toole.  It seems that when Disney released the newer version producers of the '85 version decided to also release theirs on DVD.  The original version from '85  has been getting a lot of bad reports because viewers were very disappointed that the movie didn't sufficiently...

Josh Hutcherson and AnnaSophia Robb star in Bridge to Terabithia, an imaginative look into a child's mind.

Plot: Jess (Hutcherson) become friends with Leslie (Robb) when she moves in next door.  Leslie is different than anyone he has ever met and they become quick friends.  She's a little quirky and a lot of fun.  They soon make up and rule the kingdom of Terabithia.  Here they escape and see giant trolls and mini warriors that look like ugly fairies (but are good).

What I thought:  I did think that there could have been more imaginative visuals going on in this movie.  You don't get a full...

I was fully prepared to hate Bridge to Terabithia, and not just because I was watching it on a Greyhound bus en route from Boston to New York, a trip that I would generally rather spend reading a good book than watching, well, what I expected to be a bad interpretation of a good book.

Hollywood doesn't do literature well all that often. Disney gets it right even less often than Hollywood in general does. The CGI-driven ad campaign did not inspire any confidence that this would be an exception to those rules, and I made a point of missing this when it hit theaters.

Katherine Paterson's novel, Bridge...

Ok, so this was my favorite book after I read it in my 5th grade English class. Boy oh Boy!!!

What a mind roller coaster, when you are reading this book it's like your eyes close while you are reading and you are in the book in this Magical fairytale. This was the best book ever, so I was really excited when the movie came out.

The movie was just as fantastic, of course I'm 20 now and my imagination was ten times better when I was younger but the mind blowing graphics, wonderful storyline are JUST WONDERFUL!!

There was some really extraordinary acting here by young people, and a lot of credit should go to the director, too, for making it happen.

Those two elements pushed the film into some very compelling exploration of people's reactions to death of a loved one -- especially young people, who are less prepared for it and typically see themselves as immortal.  Because that's a subject not often dealt with in films, I was totally hooked on this one.

My disappointment came near the end, where the plot turned to mush and everything came to a lived-happily-ever-after finale.  I felt let down.  After...

First of all, the previews made the film out to be more like a Chronicles of Narnia type film with lots of imagination, but sadly the few scenes in the previews are about all you get out of the imaginary world. The worst part of the movie (trying not to spoil it for those of you who haven't seen it) is that one of the young characters dies tragically. There is absolutely no-sense or reasoning to this persons death, it only makes you cry. Also, the inner struggles of the children who are using this imaginary world as an escape never really get resolved. One child has a father that pays them little...