BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA (2007) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Gabor Csupo
Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb, Zooey Deschanel,
Robert Patrick, Bailee Madison, Kate Butler
Okay, I caught this on a night flight between Seattle and Denver with the sound off and I was reading a book at the time, but here's what I think was going on. It's somewhere in the Midwest and there are these kids who live out in the country and ride the school bus to school. The two main kids are this boy and girl, and she kind of teases him at first, but then they end up liking each other, and because this is the world according to Disney, they're, like, really cute. The boy has a sketchbook he likes to draw in and one day this guitar-playing, foxy-looking teacher sees it and takes him to the Art Institute of Chicago. And there's this CGI fantasyland that the girl and the boy escape to by crossing a creek on a rope swing with a giant tree monster and weird flying batlike monkey creatures and stuff. Then I think the girl dies, or maybe she doesn't, I missed that part, and it looks like the rest of the movie is about how the boy deals with the loss. Finally, he builds a bridge across the creek and he and his kid sister walk across it into the fantasyland where they're crowned king and queen or something. You know, like in "The Chronicles or Narnia", but not quite. The end.
