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Movie Overview
Cast
Josh Hutcherson
AnnaSophia Robb
Zooey Deschanel
Director
Gabor Csupo
MPAA Rating
PG - For thematic elements including bullying, some peril and mild language
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
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"
Bridge to Terabithia
is no
Wizard of Oz
. It's more like
Pan's Labyrinth
lite -- and there's nothing wrong with that."
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Betty Jo Tucker
A-
"You take your kids to
Night at the Museum
or
Charlotte's Web,
and you've employed a temporary babysitter. Roll them over to
Bridge to Terabithia
and you'll feed their minds with a rich tapestry of emotional investment."
OhmyNews.com
Brian Orndorf
2/5
"Cheap and ordinary. This isn't art, it's product."
Filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti
C
"Haphazardly adapted from Katherine Paterson's popular 1977 coming-of-age children's book, "Bridge to Terabithia" is a problematic movie held together by its charming child actors."
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
1/5
"This is a horrible little movie, stupid and clunky and obnoxious through and through."
eFilmCritic.com
David Cornelius
C+
"Follows in lock-step with the book and populates its titular fantasyland with CGI creatures... neither idea was very good."
EDGE Boston
David Foucher
2.5/4
"...there's a third-act twist that brings some much-needed gravity to the proceedings."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
B
"Pleasing magical coming-of-age kidpic."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
7/10
"daleko od eskapizma"
Index.hr
Dragan Antulov
4/4
"Enchanting, transcendent and profoundly moving,
Bridge to Terabithia
is a masterpiece."
DustinPutman.com
Dustin Putman
2.5/4
"
Bridge to Terabithia
is a film most children should see, but it's so dully aestheticized they may not care to."
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
3/5
"Una película entretenida y emotiva sobre la idea de la pérdida, el dolor, la culpa, y sobre todo de la imaginación como válvula de escape. No es el típico pasatiempo inocente que promete; es mucho más interesante que eso."
Uruguay Total
Enrique Buchichio
B
"It redeems itself by being good-natured and sincere, and by touching the viewer's heart without manhandling it."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
A-
"Stays true to Paterson's subdued, melancholy coming-of-age masterwork."
Film Blather
Eugene Novikov
3/4
"Csupo ushers in an exciting and emotional action-adventure product that enchants and motivates the active imagination...
Terabithia
radiates with engaging enthusiasm."
TheWorldJournal.com
Frank Ochieng
B-
"While a mostly sturdy adaptation of a much-loved book, it isn't quite as secure a structure as it might have been."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
5/5
"A top-drawer screen adaptation of a Newbery Award-winning novel about two children who become friends and use their imaginations to transform their everyday world."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
C+
"The film's purpose is to Christianize an ungodly book."
Cinepinion
Henry Stewart
3.5/4
"This is easily the best family feature of the early year."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
9/10
"Click here to read review"
Kinoblog.com
Jaroslav Vishtaljuk
6/10
"...from an adult's perspective, I found the film lacking in the very creativity that its story line promotes."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
2.5/5
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Movies for the Masses
Joseph Proimakis
3.5/5
"Moving and well acted, the film is a throwback to the days, back in the '60s, when Disney (one of the film's producers) made ambitious live-action family films."
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
3/5
"less of a liberal hippie preach-fest that the book was, but still needlessly depressing for a kids' movie"
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
4/4
"What a wonderful, sorrowful film."
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
C
"While it's admirable that
Bridge to Terabithia
isn't sugar-coated, more often than not it plays as miserabilism for kids."
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Mark Pfeiffer
8/10
"This is a film that is by turns wonderful and heart-breaking. Do not expect a big special-effects fantasy. Fantasy and its power is just one theme among several well-presented themes."
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Mark R. Leeper
"Oh, devastating,
devastating
and lovely and bittersweet and entirely wonderful, this enchantingly old-fashioned movie..."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
4/5
"Radiates with youthful imagination and the joys of using it to abandon the everyday."
Film Threat
Matthew Sorrento
B+
"Terabithia itself, only imagined on the page, is brought to life with imagination and heart. We only get glimpses, but they are tantalizing and witty, with glimmers that show us how even the most fantastical creations are grounded in our own thoughts and"
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Nell Minow
4/5
"A sensitive and moving teen drama about dealing with bullying, loneliness and grief."
Shadows on the Wall
Rich Cline
A
"One of the best family films in years."
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
B+
"A gem of a movie that is coming out at a time when we are usually saddled with Hollywood’s dregs."
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
"It's a rare film that gives children an honest voice that doesn't talk down to them. Yet at the same time, there's also a solid film inside for adults to enjoy as well."
Movie Views
Ryan Cracknell
"The fantasy scenes ... do not resonate with the mythic power of those in
Pan's Labyrinth
, but this is as moving a coming of age story as one could want."
ESplatter
Steve Biodrowski
10/10
"The most heartwarming, enchanting family film since
Stand By Me
,
October Sky
and
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
. It's the first 'must-see' movie of 2007."
www.susangranger.com
Susan Granger
2.5/4
"sort of awful, but it goes places most conventional children's entertainments fail to go"
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
4/4
"A magical tale that doesn't become maudlin when many films of its ilk could have. A beautifully touching performance from AnnaSophia Robb"
Oscar Guy
Wesley Lovell
3/4
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Big Picture Big Sound
Joe Lozito
B-
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Decent Films Guide
Steven D. Greydanus
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Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
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