Posted by Peter Hyland on August 19, 2016 at 03:03:48 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Film review in The Times - and further posted by Paul Crisp on August 18, 2016 at 09:29:34:
Kate Muir has had another go at the new S&A film in The Times today. Sensitive AR fans should not read any further. Among her comments:
"The adaptation . . .is an Enid Blyton-style lashings-of-ginger-beer adventure, with trains, planes and spies all thrown in. Ransome purists may be disappointed, but the original story is just too whimsical and tame for children today"
Ouch!
Other comments: "The film is bizarrely enjoyable" (well, thanks). "Jolly japes are had battling over territory" "Ransome experts will probably choke on their Pemmican Spam . ." (Oh very witty!) "but the addition of some peril gives the film a spiffing bit of oomph outdoors, which balances the nostalgic Cath Kidston retro look of many of the interior scenes"
Who is Cath Kidston for heaven's sake ??
This sneering Metropolitan-minded review is a disgrace.
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