Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

m wills A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books of all time. It's incredibly intelligent, interesting, creative, emotional, and complex. The movie, on the other hand, is anything but. I know that a movie is unlikely to capture everything about a book. However, this movie goes beyond discrepancies between film and novel - it completely destroys everything that was good about the novel and turns it into a cheesy, simplistic, poorly-CGI'd nightmare. The character development is completely absent. Relationships that are interesting in the book are creepy at best in the movie. There are unnecessary departures from the plot of the book, and many good, complex, interesting scenes are deleted and replaced with strange episodes of physical violence, knife-throwing, and shouting. The animation is beyond atrocious - it's distractingly blurry and unrealistic, to the point of being comical. Seriously, do not, under any circumstances, waste your time.

Virgil Ierubino (Aquillyne) A Wrinkle in Time tries hard to be a thoughtful, original, family- friendly science-fantasy. But so hard does it try, it ends up self- aware, genre-confused and slow. Hindered by poor acting, the film will satisfy only the most patient and simultaneously uninvested of viewers.While I applaud any film confident enough to take its time setting a backdrop and building characters, this film just takes its time. Largely this is down to the wooden acting, even though the source material (it is based on a book) must also bear some of the blame.With character names like Mrs. Whotsit, it's clear the story wishes to be charming and maybe even childish. But this is then mixed with extended, shallow expositions about human nature or the Universe, ridiculously precocious (and arrogant) youngsters with a budding but lacklustre mature romance, and quotations from classical literature (plus a splattering of pop culture). It's hard to see who the story could appeal to.So much time is spent trying to establish an emotional connection, if they'd even spent a fraction scouting for decent lead actors and rewriting the script, they might have succeeded. As it stands, it's simply painful to watch the lead actress rattle off pretentious speeches, inane colloquialisms and emotional exclamations each with the same expressionless face and measured voice. Against stirring piano and violin.I don't know whether it's the filmmakers' or the original author's fault, but infecting a mediocre kid's plot with an adult's intellectual indulgence - or is it an adult's intellectual indulgence wrapped in a mediocre kid's plot? - can only result in the dilution of each part with the other: the dull smudge that results from the child's fallacy of a more exciting hue created through colours smeared together - which, coincidentally, is the visual image on which the film ends.

Syl A Wrinkle in Time is almost essential reading in most middle schools in the country. This adaptation although the storyline and characters seem out there appear to be what Madeleine L'Engle had in mind when she envisioned children saving the universe. I adore Kyle Secor for his role in the film. The story lines are a bit more understandable. If you read the book, you have to have quite an imagination. It makes your mind work to imagine such things. Anyway, Oscar nominees Kate Nelligan and Alfre Woodard play two of the three women (reminds you of teachers) to help the children such as Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin rescue Meg and Charles Wallace's father who has disappeared and Calvin is along to help them. While you're watching it, there are more questions than answers but the book does provide some. Now I can look back at the book for resource and reference. This film will be seen by lots of kids and adults.

Kyle Hodgdon I was browsing through Netflix and stumbled upon this movie. Having fond memories of the book as a child, I decided to check this out. This is a movie that you should really pass on.It is just not worth seeing. It is very boring and uninteresting. I feel that it would even be that way to small children. It has no magic that the book contains. This movie is not horrible, but you will just find yourself not caring ten minutes into it.There are moments that just come off as weird. The witch character is not very good. The family acts like it is no big deal that these odd things are happening. I know this is a kids movie, so as an older audience we must not look too deeply in things, but the whole movie just feels like it was written and produced by people who have never had any movie making experience before.The DVD that I had began skipping in the final moments of the film, and instead of trying to fix it I just turned it off and sent it back to Netflix. I really didn't care how it finished. Skip this film and read the book instead.