Review of Pleasantville

Every commercial I debated whether I should turn this movie off. Finally I decided that perhaps it was going somewhere, and it would be interesting to see where it was going. Well, it went nowhere.

I'll admit, it was very funny at some points. The naivety of the people could be very funny.

The actors were good. I've become a fan of Tobey Maguire even though I haven't liked either of the movies I've seen him in.

Nevertheless, this movie made no sense. Even if you call it a fairytale, fairytales live by rules, too. If there were no rules in a fairytale there would be no conflict because the hero would just think the dragon defeated. All worlds need rules. I can be led into accepting, for the sake of the story, that two kids can be sucked into the TV world. This is acceptable for the fairytale. But in the end, a rule was broken. It made no sense. I kept repeating, "they can't do that!" They didn't explain how it could be done, or what the results were--the movie just ended. They broke a rule and didn't explain it to make it believable.

I was bored throughout the movie. The ending just made me extremely annoyed.