February 21, 2007
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If there's one thing I resent, it's movie ads and trailers that give a false impression of the film being promoted.
A recent example of this, of course, was the heavily hyped Happy Feet, which I'd been mildly anticipating for some time, seeing as how it was an animation featuring a happy, dancing penguins and I'm fond of both animation and happy, dancing penguins. Fortunately reviewers clued me in once the flick hit the theaters that while it's certainly an animation, and there is - for the first half of the show - a happy, dancing penguin, the final half of the movie is much darker, with a heavy "political message" factor.
Crud. No interest in that at all.
This morning I checked the blog of Dan Phillips, a pastor in California, and by golly, it turns out this sort of thing has happened again, except it's a movie of which I've not heard...The Bridge to Terabithia. According to Dan, the trailers assembled and provided by Disney promote the show as an adventure-fantasy movie.
Nope. Nothing of the sort. It's actually a "coming-of-age drama and tragedy."
He warns that his blog post is heavy on the spoiler element, so if you're planning upon seeing this film and want to be surprised, stay away from it. But if you want to know what it's REALLY about, click on the link up there.
What a take-in! I just hate this type of movie-industry bait-and-switch. Over the years I've been fooled by trailers promising one type of movie while the actual product is completely different. Really burns my bacon.
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Elsewhere I read a comment from someone saying he'd heard on the radio that the movie's depressing, and children leave the theater "looking like their dog died."
That's a rotten thing to do to a bunch of kids.
I'd not heard great things about "Happy Feet", tho Bennett is wishing to rent it to watch (often if the movie is a stinker we'll borrow it from the library and only watch the parts that are funny). I read "The Bridge to Terabinthia" many many years ago for a class in college. It seems to me that it was a "coming of age" story. I guess I'll have to dig up the book and read it again. It is irritating when the trailer makes you believe one thing about a movie and it turns out to be quite the opposite.
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