'A Wrinkle in Time': Cliche story crimps creative visuals and costuming
“A Wrinkle in Time” is a visually beautiful film. Much in the same vein as Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” from 1951. The CGI, the worlds built and the characters are stunning and creative. However, it suffers from the same problem that Alice had, it’s characters and story just weren’t likable enough.
The scenes that are supposed to evoke tears leave the viewer cold. The end wraps up the problem too quickly, and there is no with charisma enough to save the film though Mindy Kaling and her amazing pantsuit try so hard. The twist is never really set up, so that it just seems more like a ploy then an actual possibility. Still if you love costumes, CGI and new worlds, this movie has those in spades. It also has messed up mean girl with eating disorder, good guy who is also popular but gets yelled at when home, a well-meaning principal, and teachers who talk behind the students backs, which the student hears.
I was really hoping that the box office and the reviewers were wrong on this. Unfortunately, “A Wrinkle in Time” is more cliché than creative and too heavy handed by far when it comes to the reason for the story. Love might conquer all, except in this case, it leaves the movie flat. Maybe, as time moves forward, the movie can throw the same kind of wrinkle in the cultural milieu that Alice had when it became a subversive, drugged-infused hit on its rerelease.
The scenes that are supposed to evoke tears leave the viewer cold. The end wraps up the problem too quickly, and there is no with charisma enough to save the film though Mindy Kaling and her amazing pantsuit try so hard. The twist is never really set up, so that it just seems more like a ploy then an actual possibility. Still if you love costumes, CGI and new worlds, this movie has those in spades. It also has messed up mean girl with eating disorder, good guy who is also popular but gets yelled at when home, a well-meaning principal, and teachers who talk behind the students backs, which the student hears.
I was really hoping that the box office and the reviewers were wrong on this. Unfortunately, “A Wrinkle in Time” is more cliché than creative and too heavy handed by far when it comes to the reason for the story. Love might conquer all, except in this case, it leaves the movie flat. Maybe, as time moves forward, the movie can throw the same kind of wrinkle in the cultural milieu that Alice had when it became a subversive, drugged-infused hit on its rerelease.