Dorathen
Better Late Then Never
Nayan Gough
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Fatma Suarez
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
chall-39184
It is difficult to think of many films with quite so many talented actors. Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Simon Russell Beale, Lyndsey Marshal, Anne Reid, Tom Burke - to name but a few. An absolutely delightful film that can be enjoyed as much by adults as by children. Unmissable and wonderfully satirical.
djensen1
I came to this sideways from the original novella, which was an absolute hoot. The film was a wonderful adaptation, pulling dialog directly from little Daisy's masterwork and adding to it in the same flavor. At once absurd and moving, it's the slightly wobbly story of an ordinary man who aspires to a higher station and the pretty girl desperate to hobnob among the nobility herself. They embark together, yet separately, and manage to achieve most of their ambitions, but not quite all they'd hoped. The characters are vivid and portrayed by top talent in Jim Broadbent, Lyndsey Marshal, Hugh Laurie, and Bill Nighy. They're all a bit dim-witted and bombastic, but you really feel for their ineptness. It's Broadbent's show—altho he has to fight off Nighy at times as the drunken, roguish earl. Simultaneously insightful (princes are ordinary people too) and oblivious (Ethel spends an awful lot of time alone with men she barely knows), The Young Visiters is both children's literature for adults and adult literature for children.
mikmikl
I just viewed the enjoyable movie on DVD. I think JM Barrie is a clever man. He is a very talented, non-egotistical writer, who could,if he so desired, transform a little girls writing, into a work of art, with a few nip-n-tucks. Maybe the little girl of nine wrote every word or maybe Barrie gave it the magic touch of a master? It is a story of make believe.In life ... we will all believe, what we wish to be-lie-ve. The human intellect can and does invent philosophy that over a period of time becomes facts of life. Perhaps a Barrie like figure (with a long beard) was around 5000 years ago when someone (I forget the Name?) burned down an idol factory and discovered one God?In Love & Joy Michael Levy
Nick Gondolo
This is a lovely film. No smut, innuendo or anything nefarious whatsoever. Apparently originally written by a girl of nine, all her spelling errors have been left in place. The Prince of Whales indeed! Lovely shots of the British countryside, Bluebell Railway (I assume it was) and all. The story is very simplistic, but thoroughly enchanting. Nice to have the Crystal Palace mentioned and depicted - I only wish they could have rebuilt it for the film, but that might have nudged the budget up a bit! Recommended to anyone who enjoys the values of childhood and thinks childhood is all too brief.
