Anne of Green Gables

An excellent film version of a classic story, which every youngster should see. I bought this as a Christmas present for a grand-daughter

A condensed version of the original films but still very enjoyable. Loveable Anne n the rest of the cast were good.

Just over a century has passed since Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote the original novel that this made-for-telly film is based on. During that time there have been dozens of film and telly versions of this wonderful book series. Some good, some not so good. This one has its moments, but it isn’t great, so if you are looking for a faithful film version of the book, I’d skip it. But if you are content with a decent enough film that is a rough blurry approximation of the source book, then you may well like this.Here are some of the areas where the clumsily titled ‘L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables’ departs from the novel. Anne, as played by Ella Ballentine, is a tad too pleasant for the mercurial, temper-prone Anne of the novel. Martin Sheen is altogether too big an actor for the part of Mathew who is shy and reclusive in the novel. This film (at an all too brief 90 minutes) only really covers the first, sunny, half of the book; ducking out when things get a tad darker in the second half. And the novel contains a great sense of the place – the fictional small town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island – which you don’t get much of a feel for here.But in its favour, this is not a badly made film. It’s just that it isn’t a film of the book. It would have benefited from being much longer which would have allowed for better character development, the enhancement of Martin Sheen’s tiny role, the establishing of Avonlea and full coverage of the whole novel, not just the first half. Apparently, this version was originally planned as a 13 part miniseries, which makes much better sense to me.The producers of ‘L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables’ are following up on this film with two further ‘Green Gables’ films - one this year, ‘Good Stars’ in 2017, and one next year, ‘Fire & Dew’ in 2018. So, as I say, not great, not awful. Average is the word. Hence, 3 stars.

Just finished watching this and found it very disappointing indeed. I was just settling into it when it finished! A good half of the story is missing altogether and some things have been added which were not in the book at all! Can't really recommend this version to anyone who is at all familiar with the original story.

My granddaughter loved this story. I have just bought the sequel for her

This is one of the most beautiful films I have seen in a very long time.

Anne has dyed hair! And they call it raspberry jam and not "carrots". the Gilbert is quite slimy at the beginning. The Mathew has too much to say always talking about his opinions. At first it was the Martin Sheen Show. Marilla was a nice view not mean or harsh, just bewildered at looking after a young person. I am planning to watch the sequel, hope it gets better. The 1985 is better or try the Darker adaptation on Netflix.

A lovely heartwarming story

excellent!!!superb!!!very good!!!Anne:positive thinking avant la lettre!The history of a lovable orphan in need of affection! She gives out, she gets!

A great production of Anne of Green Gables

Quelle déception. Anne est assez sympa, Gilbert, c’est un petit garçon... ça passe trop vite, mais 1h 1/2 c’est interminablement long, et voilà, fini - vraiment pas super cette version. Il vaut mieux attend la version séries netflix.