The Secret Garden

Horrible acting. Looked like an amateur school play. Story was good, could have been made beautifully. You could actually predict the entire play. waste of time and money

The acting is terrible let me start off with that, almost cringey in some areas. However it is an interesting twist on a well loved story and the costumes and steam punk elements really add to it. Overall it is not a bad movie and a mostly enjoyable watch with the quarantine.

It's a steam-punk futurism adaptation of the classic Frances Hodgson Burnett novel. Mary Lennox arrives at her uncle's Misselthwaite Factory. She befriends siblings Martha Sowerby and Dickon Sowerby. She finds a secret workshop which is referred to as The Secret Garden.

At least, they are trying for something interesting. The failure is still painful to watch. The sets look like leftovers from a second hand store. Some of the actors are struggling. At some point, one can see them rambling on with their lines as if they're just going through the motion. Somebody probably got the original idea but the budget was never there to fulfil it.

I like the steampunk variation idea. I like clean fun family entertainment. I love the original book. The set was fine. But, I've seen middle school plays with better acting and costuming.

-The characters were one dimensional and the lines terribly delivered. For example: the doctor glared whenever he was on and delivered all his lines in the same tone.

-Colin crying? The whole family laughed outloud at what should have been a troubling scene. No emotion evoked in the entire movie.

-Mary and Dicken do tolerably, but no one else can act at all.

• Martha's hair? What?

-The creepy doll? Creepy.

-The neglectful father? What a stupid character.

Being a big fan of the original I hadn't expected much from this remake. But it really was awful. Low budget with terrible acting, it lacks any emotion or excitement. Wish I hadn't wasted an hour and a half of my evening.