Storm Reid

Oprah Winfrey

Reese Witherspoon

Mindy Kaling

Levi Miller

Deric McCabe

Chris Pine

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Zach Galifianakis

Rowan Blanchard

Michael Peña

André Holland

Bellamy Young

David Oyelowo

Conrad Roberts

Lyric Wilson

Yvette Cason

Will McCormack

Daniel MacPherson

Akemi Look

Tim Kang

Michele Norris

Claire Montwill

Catelynn Brown

Ariyah Brown

Losa Fifita

Joyce Larkin

Teonee Motley

Jessica Rockwell

Oz Kalvan

Isaac Ordonez

Kai Miller

Leighton Leevard

Guillaume Seeleuthner

Jacob Eddington

Easton Tath

Giselle Paredes

Punnavith Koy

Michael J. Moore

Garrett Warren

Dean Wolcott

Atsushi Nishijima

Brittany Petros

Ava DuVernay

Tobias A. Schliessler

Daniel Benjamin

Ian Van der Werff

Melissa Yonkey

Jim Whitaker

Ramin Djawadi

Catherine Hand

Spencer Averick

Madeleine L'Engle

Jennifer Lee

Jeff Stockwell

Safka Sintmaartensdijk

Spencer R. Williams

Shauna Sanders

Cameron Wood

Michelle Chan Wong

Victoria Vanderlinden

Breanna Smith

Amber Wegner

Lora Umphress

J.J. Abrams

Katelyn Yoder

Erin Waters

Warren Upson

Anthony Sword

Rosie Smith

Marcus Wiley

Filza Khan

William Ostroff

Hailey Oltman

Matt Laumann

Jordan Levine

Luana Kasych

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David Lazan

Cindi Bogard Long

Jordyn Ferguson

Bill Bouvier

Stephanie Noel

Matt Rickett

Jane McCurdy

Cynthia Phillips

Debbie Pearl

Boafoa Offei-Darko

Luke McFarland

Halima V. Hudson

Josh Montes

Kathy Donno

Lauren Astore

Dave Robling

Saul Correa

Jamira Cheatham

Meilee Condron

Jason Bogard

Forrest Alsobrook

Daniel Fisch

Matt de Villiers

Renetta G. Amador

Neal Prosansky

Lou Henry

Maura Gannett

Amy Bertone

Dan Edward Fitzgerald V

Talia Buckberry

Brian Stackhouse

Adam Everett

Kalid Hussein

Kyma Collins

Gerald Willard

John Agnew

Cassandra Bautista

Mark Alkofer

Grant Roa

David M. Atkinson

Arielle Ackerman

Daniel Edel Bennaiem

Glenn Ryan Jr

Velvet Graves

Laura Minto

Melissa Antablin

Eleanor Lefever

Terilyn A. Shropshire

Saascha Wiki Kessell

Ron Kunecke

Julie Pearce

Melanie Miranda

Lori A. Balton

Angelina Ciulik

Lara Mazzawi

Jill Paz

Storm Nylen

Matt Bolin

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Science Fiction

Family

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A Wrinkle in Time

Whitaker Entertainment

Walt Disney Pictures

United States of America

English

based on novel or book

child prodigy

remake

family

woman director

mixed race

Gimly

Oh man, if I'd at any point ever had any faith at all in _A Wrinkle in Time_? I would have been **sorely** disappointed. Which is a shame on both counts, because it would be great if a film targeted at young people with both complex ideas **and** multiple women of colour in lead roles could have been like... Good.

_Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._

Sweet enough. Just a shame it doesn't finish as great it starts.

<em>'A Wrinkle in Time'</em>, I think, starts off very nicely. It gives a satisfactory background to the main character, while it builds the intrigue well. Unfortunately, it does drop off as it goes on - but not to the point that it hindered my enjoyment, it is a noticeable step down though. I really like the special effects, I think they look terrific throughout.

Onto the cast. Storm Reid does a respectable job as Meg, her performance arguably gets better as things progress - which is the opposite to the film overall. Chris Pine is underused in his role, but the casting of Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling is good - Zach Galifianakis too. I didn't actually find Deric McCabe's character, Charles Wallace, annoying like most seemingly did.

Surprised to see that this has a low rating across the board. I've never read the Madeleine L'Engle novel so perhaps that has something to do with it? I do agree the writing isn't necessarily great either. Each to the own, but I genuinely enjoyed it I can't lie.

Wow, this was out of all of a second wasn't it?

So, I am going to more or less focus first on the fact that this has NOTHING to do with the book. Why even carry the same title if you are going to diverge so much from the source that it is unrecognizable for the fans of the source?

But that IS the new trend isn't it? That is the new Hollywood formula.

1) Take an established book or franchise 2) Remake it to not at all resemble the source material 3) Have it flop 4) Blame the fans of the source material for the bad reviews 5) Tell the fans of the source material that it wasn't made for them, but rather for the people that were never fans of it and don't want to see it. 6) Wonder why it failed.

But that is not really the ONLY reason. I mean I grew up in the 80s, I saw made for TV movies, geared at children, that looked better than this.

Seriously, it looked like an NBC Saturday Morning cartoon made for kids under 10 in the 90s on a shoestring budget.

When you cast so many big names that you have no budget left to make the film...it's going to look horrible.

Andre Gonzales

Definitely a movie for kids. There's a lot of cool cgi stuff in this movie, but it's just a lot of nonsense and unnecessary things that go on in the movie which makes it pretty dumb.

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