Bridge To Terabithia

I dunno what happen to me last week. Was very lazy to blogging but I think that was resulted from too much of thinking and strategise on uncertain things. Well, uncertain things can become certain too. Just a matter on how we handle and manage them. I'm thinking too much maybe!

Watched this fantacy movie early last week but only manage to update my blog today. Not a big deal as this movie is still on show in most popular cinemas in Klang Valley. I'm not too late then.

Bridge to Terabithia, another movie by Walt Disney is a fantasy and adventure story of true friendship, family relationship and the power of imagination of two young school kids who live next to each other. Jess Aarons (Josh Hutcherson) is an odd/isolate at school and even in his own family. He is the only son in the family and get less attention my his financially unstable parents. He always feel abandon by his parents and hardly to get attention by them compared to his other siblings especially his own cute younger sister. During the summer, Jess has trained himself hard to become the fastest kid in his class but his goal is unexpectedly thwarted by the newcomer in his class.

Unluckily, that newcomer is a girl and that really irk him. Leslie Burks (Anna Sophia Robb) is the only child for her artist parents. She overtake Jess and win the race and that really made Jess feels uncomfortably irritating. Well, I guess this is the feeling of any boys who lost the race by a girl. Haha whatelse can I say about this as guys have our own ego higher than Taipei 101 building in Taiwan! As a guy, I admit this as a genuinely true fact!

These two kids quickly become best friends as they stay next to each other, study in the same class and in the same yellow school bus. Leslie is a girl with high imagination and loves to tell stories of fantasy and magic. This is maybe because she carries the same trait as her parents. She opens the new world of imagination for Jess and always asks him to open his mind as wide as possible. At this point, I'm totally agree with her that we should open our minds and look beyond the norms. Together they create the kingdom or Terabithia, a magical and imagery place that only both of them know.

From that, they start their adventurous journey everyday after school. Jess changes tremendously in his attitude and become more positive towards life. His parents sense this and they are happy for that. At least Jess is no longer a quiet boy with no friends. There are many events and plots that take place during show and got morale to learn behind each plots. The ending is a bit sad that's what we call life. Not everything we dream to be will turn to be as our dreams.

My honest review on this movie is it's not up to my expectation as an adventurous journey of two kids in their fantasy and magical imagination. I'm expecting more but again it's just another typical fantacy movie. It should present more on the adventurous journey and the fantacies rather than focusing more on the real life. If we are looking for a real life movie that narrates on human behaviours, then this isn't the right movie to be considered. Anyway, I still enjoy the visual effects and the graphics but those are not enough and I'm excpecting more and more.

Suitable for the whole family and I think kids will enjoy this movie! Happy viewing!