I have never been a Samantha fan really. I loved Felicity (and soon liked Kit. My sister is a long time Samantha series fan though.
We were both excited to get the American Girl catalog for Winter 2004 and opened it up to get an ad for the new Samantha movie. I marked it on my calender for November 23 and my sister put the DVD on her Christmas list. Little did we know that we would be a little disappointed.
Samantha: An American Girl Holiday is about a girl named Samantha who be-friends three servant girls, after Samantha moves up to New York City with her Uncle Guard and his new bride Cornilia, she finds out that the three servant girl's father died and were sent off to an orphanage there in New York City! Soon Nellie (who is one of the servent girls she be-friends and becomes best friends with) tells Samantha that she might be sent on the orphan train to somewhere else, but without her two younger sisters! Samantha tries to help Nellie and her two sisters, but there would be consequences!
One thing that bugged me was through 1 hour and 30 minutes, there was nothing related to Christmas! NOTHING! Zero-zip-zilch! 1 hour and 50 MINUTES into the movie and there was nothing about Christmas except the fact that they were starting to talk about Christmas.
AnnaSophia Robb didn't do her best. She had her moments when she acted Samantha out really well, and then she had her moments...well most of the movie....when she did a horrible job acting out Samantha.
Mia Farrow made Grandmary much sweeter and much younger. I did not stick with that fact.
The movie was good, and it had its moments like when Nellie steals Eddie's money jar and on Sunday at church, Samantha dumps all of the money (coins) on the little offering tray. I could not bear the factory scene for what happened to the little boy happened to one of my mom's friends when she was little.
As a result, my sister was disappointed. I asked her if she wanted to buy it on DVD and she said that she would have to watch it again on Thanksgiving and make up her mind then. Good film! And this is not for American Girl people (like me) only! It is not like some film where you have to read the books or watch the prequels to understand the movie. Anybody can watch it. It brings out the next generation of AG!
We were both excited to get the American Girl catalog for Winter 2004 and opened it up to get an ad for the new Samantha movie. I marked it on my calender for November 23 and my sister put the DVD on her Christmas list. Little did we know that we would be a little disappointed.
Samantha: An American Girl Holiday is about a girl named Samantha who be-friends three servant girls, after Samantha moves up to New York City with her Uncle Guard and his new bride Cornilia, she finds out that the three servant girl's father died and were sent off to an orphanage there in New York City! Soon Nellie (who is one of the servent girls she be-friends and becomes best friends with) tells Samantha that she might be sent on the orphan train to somewhere else, but without her two younger sisters! Samantha tries to help Nellie and her two sisters, but there would be consequences!
One thing that bugged me was through 1 hour and 30 minutes, there was nothing related to Christmas! NOTHING! Zero-zip-zilch! 1 hour and 50 MINUTES into the movie and there was nothing about Christmas except the fact that they were starting to talk about Christmas.
AnnaSophia Robb didn't do her best. She had her moments when she acted Samantha out really well, and then she had her moments...well most of the movie....when she did a horrible job acting out Samantha.
Mia Farrow made Grandmary much sweeter and much younger. I did not stick with that fact.
The movie was good, and it had its moments like when Nellie steals Eddie's money jar and on Sunday at church, Samantha dumps all of the money (coins) on the little offering tray. I could not bear the factory scene for what happened to the little boy happened to one of my mom's friends when she was little.
As a result, my sister was disappointed. I asked her if she wanted to buy it on DVD and she said that she would have to watch it again on Thanksgiving and make up her mind then. Good film! And this is not for American Girl people (like me) only! It is not like some film where you have to read the books or watch the prequels to understand the movie. Anybody can watch it. It brings out the next generation of AG!