Charlotte's Web
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If there is one thing that Charlotte's Web has going for it, it is the film's huge cast, popular story and ginormous target market. OK, that's three things, but what all this means is that the film need only be par to score at the box office. Fortunately for Paramount, the early reviews claim that the film is above par, if only slightly.
Variety
E.B. White's book is "Charlotte's Web" the classic; Paramount and Walden Media's film is "Charlotte's Web" the commodity. A sorely disappointing screen adaptation of one of the most artful and widely read children's books of the past century, this highly polished picture is superficially faithful, even reverential to its source, but evinces neither imagination nor a personality of its own. Given the property, big-name cast and film's inoffensive nature, however, it would be hard for this pic to miss commercially with general audiences over the holidays.
THR
Charlotte's Web, the endearingly enduring 1952 E.B. White novel about friendship and salvation, has been turned into a beautifully rendered motion picture that's full of warmth, wit and wonder.
Where Paramount's 1973 incarnation was a traditionally animated, feature-length Hanna-Barbera production (featuring the voices of Debbie Reynolds, Agnes Moorhead, Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly), the new version takes its live-action cue from 1995's Babe, combining real-life critters with CG-assisted animatronics, rather than going the fully computer-animated route.
Hard to get a true picture of Charlotte's Web when the first two reviews disagree. Expect a couple more early reviews for Charlotte's as the week progresses.
You can read the full reviews by clicking on the bold links above.
Charlotte's Web opens to theatres on December
15th.
For posters, trailers, movie stills, synopsis and movie info, go to the Charlotte's Web
Movie Page.
Stay tuned for updates.
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