Wednesday, May 12, 2004
A Wrinkle in Time
Read it when I was in high school, but didn't appreciate it until the 80's when I reread it and discovered the other books in the set. I've known the film version had been wrapped for a year or two, but I could find nothing on the net about it. Then suddenly I see a promo for it last week on tv, which I could easily have missed, since I rarely tune into the networks and my wife favors HGTV.
I really liked the film version, which I thought was a respectful update of the book. Good work with the adaptation of the book for fiddling a bit with pacing and dramatic tension. I didn't mind the tinkering, and in a few instances, I thouhgt it an improvement, at least for a film version. The casting was good, and I thought the young actor playing Meg did a very creditable job. Special effects were just right.
I objected somewhat to the Happy Medium and Calvin O'Keefe needed red hair, but hey, this is television, not Cannes.
Anybody else catch this film? What did you think?
