movie review: bridge to terabitha

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Saturday 4:00 pm MArch 2, 2007. Josh Hucherson is 14 years old and talks a million miles a minute. In the film "Bridge to Terabithia" (opening Friday) he plays the main character Jesse--a middle school introvert who befriends a funky new girl named Leslie played by Anna Sophia Robb (that chirpy blond from "Because of Winn-Dixie"). Together Leslie and Jesse imagine a kingdom called Terabithia in the woods by their homes and (surprise!) both their lives are changed forever. The film is based on a novel of the same name. Jesse and Leslie are battling an imagined animal called the Squogre that looks like a giant evil squirrel. Hutcherson said this was the hardest scene of the film to shoot because aside from him and Robb the other actors were all computer generated images. Hutcherson has worked with CGI before in the film "Zathura: A space Adventure" directed by Jon Favreau, but that time there were real people in suits or puppets to act off and respond to. In this scene all the young actors had to work with little dots or tennis balls that were supposed to represent the creatures. Whenever one of the Squorge was supposed to emerge one of the 60 members of the crew would throw a tennis ball on the set, which would help Robb and Hutcherson figure out where to look. It was like any other impulse that I have. I watched a movie at a cinema. This time I tried this movie. The story was nice in a teenage or adult level. It was never for children. Language are okey but there is something lacking in the movie. In the end of the movie, I was not so impressed with the theatrics. I just pity families who went in to watch the show. I assumed they are expecting sort of a Harry Potter-like story. Well, me too in a way.. Tsk.. Tsk...