Synopsis
Be a warrior
After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.
2018 Directed by Ava DuVernay
After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.
it means well. this has a pulsating heart, beating deep beneath miles of mess. i can feel it, the movie itself constantly reminds me it’s there, but sometimes that isn’t enough
the headlining actors make this an painless and sometimes joyful ride, and the child actors do bring charm to round out the cast, but the script is incredibly weak, and the plot is even weaker. and people claim that interstellar doesn’t make sense..... the visuals do heighten the experience, it’s clear that ava had a distinct eye for what she wanted, and she goes for it: the colors are saturated and welcoming, a lot of the camera movements are crisp and deliberate. if only they served a bigger purpose.…
At a time when Disney would rather fund suffocatingly faithful (and/or toxically garish) “live-action” remakes of classic films than roll the dice on original stories for a new generation of kids, there’s something refreshing — and downright beautiful — about what Ava DuVernay has done with “A Wrinkle in Time.” Less satisfying than the recent “Pete’s Dragon,” but told with a similar degree of revisionist zeal, this eye-popping adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved 1962 novel scrubs away the Christian overtones of the source material in favor of some distinctly 21st century humanism.
Jesus is out, self-worth is in, and it’s coming for your children via an $103-million orgy of special effects that starts with a giant astral projection of Oprah…
(My review for The Daily Emerald)
Ava Duvernay’s “A Wrinkle In Time” is the first ever live-action film directed by a woman of color to have a budget over $100 million. Considering that just 4% of top-grossing directors from 2007 – 2016 were women, and just seven were women of color, the film undeniably breaks exciting new ground no matter how many diminutive flaws it has.
Based off of the 1962 book by Madeleine L’Engle, the film follows Meg Murry (Storm Reid) as she embarks on a quest to find her missing father (Chris Pine) with her little brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) and a boy from school named Calvin (Levi Miller). Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon), a manic and impulsive…
L'Engle's book was pretty light on incident but long on dialogue and metaphysics. This is equally non-exciting but replaces all the ideas with a bunch of bland CGI, and like the novel the characters mostly just stand around explaining stuff to each other and rely on their innate goodness rather than actually doing stuff. The most interesting relationship here, between the estranged parents, gets the least amount of attention (also as in the source material). Oh and the kid actors are just awful.
i read this book like 7 years ago in elementary school and i didn’t think it would work as a movie and i was right.
Ava DuVernay's 'A Wrinkle in Time' is based on the novel by Madeleine L'Engle - which I am not familiar with. I did however spend far too many hours of my teenage life watching the 2003 TV-Movie directed by John Kent Harrison.
As a tomboy with long tied back browny/red hair I saw a lot of myself in the 2003 version of Meg played by Katie Stuart - So I think it's awesome that this version will do the same for young girls that can see themselves in Storm Reid - who was fantastic!
Although being a very well made film, I was left feeling a bit disappointed at the end of the film as I thought it had raced…
This movie is the worst kind of laughably bad. The kind where its heart is in the right place but just about everything else is a mess.
It seems like it's aiming to only appeal to kids but is bogged down by way too much nonsensical exposition and would likely bore them to tears if they aren't excited to see it going in. Acting is pretty horrible across the board, despite all the talented people who show up, but I guess even they couldn't salvage such trite writing.
To counter this it banks on visual spectacle, moving between lots of colorful and sometimes elaborate locations. I can't deny that the film can look quite pretty at times, but the nonsense…
A film so bad not even Oprah can save it.
Where was the dad? Who were the 3 witch things? Why did the brother turn bad? How did they escape? What the actual fuck was any of that shit about.
Could have done with $50m less spent on CGI and $5m more spent on a coherent script.
Throughly deserves to be the gigantic box office bomb it is.
What a fucking mess.
Almost. Better than the book - I was pretty engaged until the scene were Meg was trying to break the hold on Charles Wallace. It is a big scene to carry on such a little kid so I can’t be mad but that’s where I felt a bit disappointed. Overall enjoyable and a solid message. The scenes were beautifully shot.
I work at a cinema and a girl just walked out of this yelling “WHY DID SHE TURN INTO LETTUCE???”
i feel like the level of magic that was supposed to be present in this is just... not. but, hey, i'm always down for uplifting young women.
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