Bridge to Terabithia - Review

iT ROCKS AND SUCKS!!!!!!

PEACE OUT!!!

THIS IS THE MOST SUCKING MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!!

I expected a better ending. I had already lost my best friend when I was a kid. This sucking movie has brought back the painful memories. I was absolutely emotionally devastated after watching this film. My child also started crying in the theatre and he was mentally very upset for the following week.

I DO hope they make a Terabithia II where the girl comes back the two friends reunite.

Bridge to terebithia is a really good book/film the only thing that made me not enjoy the film that much was that the girl died (lesley) I dont know if I like it or not really but I think the bit where the girl died should not be part of the book/film because if the girl never died it would be a happy ending but because she did it is not really that much of a happy ending and it has got me thinking about the film again and again just because of that little bit I do not know why though, you may have a differant point of veiw and if the girl didnt die maybe there would be no meaning to the book/film but I think it stops people enjoying it.

The beauty of the story is indeed the part when the girl dies...
so to all you ppl who keep saying killing off the girl made no sense and had no point, u are wrong.
If the girl didn't die THEN there would be no point....
so go reread the book, or go rewatch the movie...whichever u gotta do...maybe you'll get the message since u obviously didn't get it this time

I'm just a kid but to me it's more of a Narnia blend My Girl movie. mIt was sad enough to make pl cry but not me. I was bummed by the part Leslie died. Most movie have hapy endings but this have sad endings. I wonder, why did it get a medal?

MOST AWESOME MOVIE I EVER SAW PERIOD. NOT LIKE THOSE STUPID NARNIA FLICKS WHICH BY THE WAY SUCK!! PUUH.... LZZZ, KIDS GOING INSIDE A WARDROBE AND INTO A MAGICAL KINGDOM, TALKING BEAVERS AND SANTA CLAUSE GIVING THE LITTLE GIRL A KNIFE TO STAB SOME HALF BISON HALF MAN! IF YOU LIKE THAT BULL, THEN YOUR FREAKING NUT'S! ONLY UNCULTURED AND IGNORANT TO REAL CLASSICAL MASTERPIECES LIKE BTT WOULD BUY THAT CRAP. SORRY BOUT THAT I DONT GET EMOTIONAL OFTEN, ITS JUST BECAUSE THEY DONT SEE BEAUTY OF THIS MOVIE LIKE THE TRUE FANS DID; I ADMIT THAT I ALMOST CRIED BUT JUST HELD IT INSIDE. ANYWAY CMON PEOPLE OPEN YOUR DARN EYES YOU SAY THAT TERRABITHIA IS SATANIC WELL MAY I ASK YOU WHICH MOVIE HAS THE UNHOLY CROSS BREEDS THAT GOD WOULD CONSIDER BLASPHEMY FOR EVEN CONJURING IN OUR MINDS. SO HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MINDS IF NOT I'D ALSO LIKE TO EXPLAIN ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF LIFE AND DEATH BETWEEN THE TWO. IN NARNIA THE YOUNGEST OF THE FOUR FED HIS DYING BROTHER A SERUM THAT BROUGHT HIM BACK TO LIFE! NOW WHAT KIND OF MORALE IS THAT NOT LIKE TERRABITHIA; THE AUTHOR UNDERSTOOD DEATH AND IF IT ARRIVED (AND IM SURE IT WILL TO ALL OF US CAUSE NOBODY LIVES FOREVER AFTER ALL) HOW TO COPE AND DEAL WITH IT; ALSO HOW IT TEACHES US NOT TO LINGER AND MOVE ON. SUCH AS THE BEAUTIFUL MESSAGE OF TERRIBITHIA SO TAKE IT FROM SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTOOD WHAT BOOKS WITH ORIGINAL CONCEPTS HAVE, NOT LORD OF THE RINGS KNOCK OFF'S. AND IF YOUR STILL A HARD HEAD TAKE TO CONSIDERATION WHAT LESLIE SAID " WATCHING TO MUCH TV KILL'S YOUR BRAIN CELLS"

Please don't let your children see this Satanic movie. Parents be warned. Please pray for all the children that seen this movie and also the adults that see nothing wrong with this Satanic movie. Dear God please save our souls, and please put an end to the devils influence on the media. Amen

The trailers were in fact nothing like the book or the movie itself, however the movie pretty much stayed true to the book, maybe they should have payed more attention to the story line than the fantasy, but how else are you going to get children to watch the movie?

THE MOST HORRIBLE MOVIE EVER!!! I was so, so disapointed! they made this movie look so fun and mystical. it was totaly depressing. this movie is not for any one. it is sad for children and very dull 4 aldults. thin movie takes the cake as the WORST EVER!

"I feel cheated and want my money back from Disney for the deception and for making my child cry!!! "

Dear AnneP,

Disney didn't make your child cry, YOU MADE YOUR CHILD CRY by bringing her to an inappropriate movie. Do a bit of research (even a google search) and you shall see that this movie is not reccomended for younger children. Incidently, it is a very good movie although with a sad subject matter for sure.

its terrific! i love to see the cast in person, i hope they can see me. its one of my favorite movie>

is te best movie!
i love it

my best friend die so i like very much the movie because it's like my life,
i have 13 years old and this is my favorite movie=D
i'm of mexico so i din't speak very good eanglish i hope you understand.

I too, was expecting to see another Chronical's of Narnia, and I'm almost glad it wasn't. The part of the movie that teaches a lesson was great and very understandable. However, the trailers of the film were precieved to be another fantasy movie about kings, queens, kingdoms, adventure, and mythical creatures. The ending was easily one of the worst I've ever seen. I felt like dieing when the father told Jesse, "Leslie fell into the river, hit her head and drowned." This was terrible. Not only does it ruin the movie, but it probobly scares children when they watch it. The lesson was perfect, but Leslie dieing was totally unnessesary. A good ending would have consisted of Leslie and Jesse growing up together and becoming the married Queen and King of Terabithia. It should have ended with the two sitting on a thrown with all of their mythical followers, or people, standing before them. Please make sure trailers are more specific as to what film's are about from here on. I would rather not be dissapointed and almost cry due to a tragic ending ever again. I loved the movie, but the ending ruined it. Very much so ruined.

i have watched this movie 4 times and plan to buy it. it's one of the best lessons of the impotance of friendship i've ever seen, anyone who has not lost ther best friend probaly would not understand !!!

My fience and I were very dissapointed in this film. It was pretty good up until they killed off leslie, that royaly sucked... The author created such a beautiful character in leslie and the movie could have taken so many alternative paths which would have made the story so much better. At the very least keeping leslie's memory alive in terabithia would have been a better ending where she would still be a part of the world she had created instead of just the world itself continuing without her.

My fience and I were very dissapointed in this film. It was pretty good up until they killed off leslie, that royaly sucked... The author created such a beautiful character in leslie and the movie could have taken so many alternative paths which would have made the story so much better. At the very least keeping leslie's memory alive in terabithia would have been a better ending where she would still be a part of the world she had created instead of just the world itself continuing without her.

I love the movie Bridge to Terabithia and I think its great I think the actors were amazing and it would have took alot of time to do Jess and Leslie were great and little May Belle was so cute well done and I hope to see you again on another film

Ialso think this is a fantastic movie for all ages

I must say, I'm pretty surprised and a bit upset by the reaction of several of the parents on this page. I'm not a father, being only 22, but I am an uncle and have a 5-year-old niece. I took her to see this movie in theaters and I was too surprised by the passing of one of the main characters but was not angry over it. I think this film is an excellent teaching tool. The two main characters here go through so much in both their school and home life that just about every child today can relate to in one way or another. As much as we would like to shield them from it, death is one of those ordeals. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of children in the US today will have someone close to them, whether family or friends, pass away before reaching adulthood. This film portrays the trauma of that happening, but goes further in also explaining that even in such tragedy, its possible to move on and come to terms with it. As much as we like, there is no real way to protect them from the truths of the life. So why not instead try to teach them, help them understand it better so they are better prepared for it?

So I ask you, why is this film not appropriate for children? Because as far as I’m concerned, there is no better children’s film to come out of Disney in a long time.

Well.......this movie bit the dust for us. Echoing the reports above about bait & switch false advertising is certainly the major case here. I have to say our family wasn't prepared for the loss in the movie, that alone was a terrible disapointment and had pretty much decided for us to review movies from Disney from now on.
Sure everyone has thier perspective about the "emotional value" etc... Great for adult and teens who like this sort of thing, but no one should have this thrust upon them without choice. Sure they say life is like that, but do those people go out of thier way to watch emotional wrenching movies because thier own lives lack it?
Well I certainly don't feel my 10 yr old should be surprised like that. This was not a younger childrens film at all, and we felt as a whole that the ending could have seriously been better. But it seems Disney writers get a kick out of SHOCK value, "Hey lets make 1000s of children cry and the parents won't even expect it!! Look how artsy we are!!"..........assholes.
Anyway this is Mine and MY familys experiance and how we feel, I in no way expect this post to invalidate anyone elses experiance, we each have our needs in entertainment we select. To me this is not something I wanted in a Disney movie.

Clearly, the ones really at fault here are the jackasses at Disney who designed the cheesy trailer that made parents with little kids wanting a feel-good fantasy movie go see it and be disappointed, while making people like me who had read the book think that they had wrecked the entire story and made it cheesy. That's just an unforgivable sin on their part, and I can't believe those trailers got past the cutting room.

Anyway, people who say this film sucked because it was depressing--grow up! I suppose you have somewhat of an excuse, considering what you thought you were going to see, but really... what truly great film has ever been made that has ever just been a fluffy, feel-good, heartwarming "escape" from the real world, with no themes of sadness or reality? Yeah, I thought so. This is pathetic.

I agree with all the comments condemning disney and the makers of this film for falsly advertising the movie. For those people who snarkily remarked that people should have done more research, I was just trying to rent a fun family video for my kids and I to watch together, not writing my disertation. The DVD's cover and the photos and info on the back cover all indicated a fantasy movie, not a tragic story of loss and sort of recovery (I assume there was a whole lot more depth to the ending in the book then there was in the movie.) Fans of the book may have loved it, and it might have been something for my older daughter and I to share, but this just seemed like a bait and switch job. Some ad genius thought more people would see it if it was connected to Narnia (boldly mentioned above the movies title on the front cover) instead of advertising what they had really made.

cronicles of nardia was dumb. this movie wasn't. it teaches kids to use there imagination and for people who say it's boring, i guess they want to watch a movie that is 100 percent real. I did get fined 1200 dollars for breaking something at the theater when leslie died though. she could have at least come back in terabitha, but she didn't. just remember that the movie teaches kids to have an imagination. and also for what [you] said; I can tell you are just a kid. just a kid who has nothing nice to say and a waste of good space. somebody like leslie could take your place in the world and she would make something out of life better than you could. think about if one of your friends died. no, what if your ONLY friend died? I bet your jaw would clench then you sorry piece of sh*t

i thoughy it was a really good movie. but i cried when leslie died i saw no point. they should make a sequil where leslie comes back to life somhow and they go back to terabithia and live happly ever after but all together it was a wonderful movie

Well,

I have to say that this movie was a wonderful change from the other movies that have come out in past years that have very little to no story line, or the few that do have story lines are so thrown together and they are so terribly written that children and adults forget that life isn't about all of that fun, fantasy stuff. It is fine to go there occasionally, and many of the stories are great and wonderfully written, but it seems to me that we want to shelter our children from the things that make us human, like tears, and subject them things that are totally inappropriate, like farting, burping or pulling a giant thing of earwax out of your ear to make a candle, to get a laugh. Sure, those other movies are okay for older children and adults, but we are telling our children that it is okay to be gross and it's not okay to have real emotional human feelings!

I think that this movie is a wonderful teaching guide. Watch the movie and then sit down with your children and discuss what happened and how it made them feel. We are too quick to want to put our kids in front of a movie that will entertain them, so that we don't have to raise them. Try raising your kids for a change and let them know that it is okay to cry, to feel bad and that in the end evertthing will work out, it always does!

Go watch this movie, it was WONDERFUL and a great applause to the author of the book and producers, writers, and all those involved with the movie, very good movie!!!

BTW, all of my kids loved it, even the two year old!

ELIZABETH AND I loved this film! it was sooo GOOD! we thought it suited the film when the girl died! OOPPS just gave it away. ITs was soooo scary at times with the GIANT! BUT IT was reall cool! WE LUVED THE SPECIAL EFFECTS and the computerised siber mashines!
WE LOVEED IT WITH ALL OUR HEART AND SOUL!