A Wrinkle in Time

This is such a stupid film, probably even too stupid for kids. But the cast includes so many great actors. Either way, I have to admit that it was its stupidity that made me watch it until the end. I did yawn every now and then, but the visual side of it didn’t look like it deserved the 37% rating it got here. (11/18/2018)

A Wrinkle in Time seems like a pop music video for teenage girls, but stretched-out to an incredible 110 minutes. This is a terrible overly sweet movie with tons of emotionally-charged motivational speeches about gaining self-confidence and the power of love - way beyond the boundaries of merely childish naivety to where downright stupidity begins  - and it is hard to take seriously, especially with the most literal motivational speeches. The characters' lines fluctuate between cheesy stupid ones, like when we learn, for example, that electrons can be connected by the power of love, and even downright ridiculous nonsense - when a young girl finds the confidence to defeat evil, she is compared to Nelson Mandela and Oskar Schindler. The really lousy performances by the child actors (especially little Deric McCabe), up-and-coming adult actors in kitschy costumes speaking saccharine-sweet lines, the involvement of Oprah Winfrey in the role of the wisest being, and Mindy Kaling in perhaps the most annoying role of the whole movie will only cause people to have psychedelic headache. (01/19/2019)

I won't hide it. I knew it would be bad, but it has happened to me countless times that even a highly criticized film fit me perfectly. Wrinkle in Time is definitely not the case. It's been a long time since I couldn't hold my attention on a movie for more than half an hour, and I caught myself thinking about completely different things for maybe 10 minutes, even though my eyes didn't leave the monitor screen. In short, I'll say: it's terribly boring, don't watch it. The Disney folks gathered the biggest clichés, mainly in America, a few well-known names and stuffed them into a relatively elaborate trick-filled film, wrapped with a huge layer of pathos and disdain. Of course, I'm not the target audience, but it must not happen that absolutely every character in the movie is unsympathetic to me (maybe only Chris Pine is trying, but considering the story, there is painfully little here) and I absolutely didn't care how it all ends, especially since it's still Disney, so it was clear from the beginning. I was just waiting for Thor to swoop in and take the Tesseract from them. A big disaster. (05/30/2018)