A Wrinkle In Time reviewed by Mark Kermode

[@deerstalker166]

I like mark but if we are being 100% honest if zac synder had of made this he would of destroyed it

[@knifeofdunwall]

No, he wouldn't. He was much nicer to Batman v Superman than it deserved.

[@ElDaumo]

what a nice way to describe a trainwreck

[@charliebad]

karottenkoenig Completely agree. It's dreadful.

[@trickymenthal3011]

I think the next Kermode Uncut should be, the good doctor's top 5 honourable failures. It would be an interesting list...

[@superstarDJ537]

tricky menthal I say Cloud Atlas should make that list! Pity AWiT didn't hit the heights, I thought the trailer looked interesting at least.

[@XxRestlessGamerxX]

tricky menthal Cyberbulley and Riding the Bus with My Sister. Garbage movies with "honourable" intentions.

[@anjulamutanda2000]

My daughter auditioned for Meg- came very close. Feel sad that the film didn't work.

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

Sure😂

[@meetmodi1200]

It's a failure! Let's not sugar coat it by calling it 'honorable failure' Nothing worked, extremely fragmented story telling, very tacky CGI! It didn't have geek out moments of science fiction nor it had the wonder of a fantasy! Poor Casting choices, Acting across the board was mediocre!

[@jedidog3615]

He pretty much explained my feelings when I saw the film. It has a lot of good stuff going for it, but it does not gel together as one would wish. I think this is going to be this generation's "Hook." You love it when growing up, but once you become an adult, yeah...

[@Ix7VickxI]

Annihilation review waiting room

[@trexguy]

NickEntity , love Annihilation!

[@notabot835]

oh mark...

[@jakmanxyom]

Waited for this review for A LONG TIME...I can finally get some proper judgement of the film, as it stands on its own, away from the confusing identity-based public attention back in the States.

[@carls.2649]

It's okay, man. Go have a pint. You don't have to feel so guilty about not liking it.

[@trexguy]

Big fan of Kermode but yeee gads, just say it’s a bad movie. It’s awful.

[@lostintechnicolor]

This movie is really bad, Mark. I thought of The Lovely Bones, too (which is a clusterfruitcake).

[@charliepanayiotou4305]

I loved Selma, and heard good things about 13th, but this always sounded like a weird fit for Ava DuVernay (like when Ang Lee did Hulk) Also, considering this film is underperforming at the box office, it makes you wonder why studios still risk $100+ million budgets on non-franchise live-action films these days, most of the time you won't make enough to justify it, audiences just don't turn out really for stuff that isn't an established franchise, at least not enough to make your film a certified hit.

[@boschvater]

Charlie Panayiotou alright but then there are movies such as Baby Driver that do very well for original movies. Baby Driver might not have been that expensive but there was still a lot of money involved.

[@charliepanayiotou4305]

Baby Driver cost $34 million, if this film had cost $34 million it'd be faring a lot better

[@TheMoviePlanet]

Charlie - where do you get that this is a "non-franchise live-action film"? This is an adaptation of the first in a series of 9 extremely popular novels, that furthermore are part of shard universe alongside another 20 novels. This was absolutely meant to be the start of a big franchise.

[@chazbrennan9632]

Are people getting totally blind to the ugly vapidity of obvious CG imagery? Here's a clue: if you can tell you are looking at DIGITAL IMAGES, then it has failed. If you think it might be 'there' in the sense of a real thing like a physical effect, then it has succeeded. Did nobody notice that Oprah isn't even making rough eye-contact with anybody she is apparently supposed to be speaking to in the this film? They don't even try to make it look like it's not all greenscreen.

[@masseysmoviemadness1411]

Why are you not making that leap of faith? Because it's bad. Simple.

[@chazbrennan9632]

I feel one of the ironies of the year is that this corporate, inclusive love-in failed, and Eli Roth, that most appalling of sophomore edgelords, looks like he's going to make a charming success out of another American kids' classic.

[@Hoopla10]

I haven't watched this yet but I'm betting I'm going to like it. Almost all the Disney films I like are their live action films that aim high and miss while doing bad at the box office. I have this weird fascination with their non-franchise films. I think it started with Condorman (I still love that film and it's still the best superhero film ever made) and my favorite live action Disney film Return to Oz (such an incredibly under-rated film) but has continued through the years, The Black Hole, Popeye, The Rocketeer, John Carter, Tomorrowland...

[@GOSTDatingandLifestyle]

Did you like it?

[@cammy1273]

Clap your hands and believe mark.

[@CaptainTae]

Kind of uncomfortable listening to them make excuses for the movie.

[@chrisofnottingham]

So, do people generally not rate The Lovely Bones? I thought it was rather marvellous. But I didn't have the advantage of hearing any reviews first.

[@medes5597]

The book is something very unique and special. Almost everyone who dislikes it is a fan of the book. The Lovely Bones is weirdly empty in how Heaven is portrayed (like a screensaver not a place, as many said) and over reliant on special effects. The characters weren't well developed and... Really it just totally failed for me. I can't think of a good thing about it. If you liked it then that's great. I don't think everyone who dislikes Lovely Bones is influenced by reviews. I think it's simply that the book was such an incredibly unique and perfect novel that relied heavily on internal monologue and language that any adaptation that tried to capture it was going to have an up hill struggle and Jackson's portrayal of Susie's Heaven (which the author strongly disliked and vehemently argued with him about) and his decision to rely so heavily on computer imagery in that regard ultimately doomed his adaptation in the eyes of a great many people. It kind of fails to have the same emotional impact of the book even if you put the heaven sequences to one side. He somehow took a book lauded for its dense, rich characterisation and turned it into a world of shallow, poorly written people. Its somewhat telling that audience scores tended to be much lower than the critics, as critics enjoyed the premise and ideas and kind of wanted to like the film. Audiences were in general very cold on the film, and it's the worst selling of any of Jackson's post-LOTR movies. Alice Sebold, the author of the book, was disappointed enough to consider taking her name off the finished film. Sorry I ended up rambling the more I thought about how little I liked it. Like I said, to each his own and if you liked it then great because I honestly wanted to love it. I don't think anyone disliked it because of critical reception. Looking reviews up, they were much kinder to it than audiences are now, where the general opinion is that its utter trash.

[@kirk1701]

I thought it was 'meh.'

[@johnpelosi4117]

"Quantum entanglement"! Ha ha ha ha!

[@davidfgranger]

This wrinkle in time, I can't give it no credit

[@Egg-mr7np]

This review makes me want to go and watch it. 'hah, bet it works for me'.

[@mathieuleader8601]

Wrinkle in time cannot be made in live-action

[@nikosvault]

Never has the mild failure of a childrens film made so many "people" happy.

[@currybumjenkins5428]

Kinda like when everyone piles on a Transformers?

[@BlackieFyre]

Isn't the bad acting the most obvious flaw in that movie? He didn't even mention the acting.

[@sofieshack8048]

I'm within the age range and I couldn't really find myself in the dialogue. The visuals were great but the characters were fake and unrealistic.

[@Fergit_]

oops we made a stinker, best say that it's made for kids, they won't notice and complain, let's continue to assume kids are stupid

[@billykitahama3514]

"...feeling the film didn't love her back because...hadn't seen herself represented on screen." I've always enjoyed watching samurai movies. I'm not asian, or Japanese, or a 17th century samurai. I was not 'represented' on screen. It didn't stop me enjoying those movies. I've never expected a film to 'love me back' (whatever that means).

[@Sleepgarden]

I bet all the dislikes came from Brie Larson's alt accounts

[@testing9485]

The 2003 version was good. Not great, but this version sucked. My favorite childhood book still waiting for an awesome version. What so hard? Harry Potter, The Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings and you cannot do a great version of this book? B.S.

[@onibabapapa2659]

The combination of women and wrinkles has always had a hard time in Hollywood

[@DeplorableAngus]

Get woke go broke

[@Solarstar10]

What a laughably dumb statement. All of the issues about this film have absolutely nothing to do with being 'woke'. Grow up.

[@filmsagainstempires1388]

Selma wasn't great.

[@Lucols4]

Agreed. It was competent at best.