BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Faith I bought this movie thinking it would be the true story of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her life in a movie form. It definitely was not. I love the original Michael Landon TV series even though it is only loosely based on the books because it kind of took on a life of its own while still staying true enough to the books and characters so that they were recognizable and lovable. This movie did none of that. It claims to be the "true story" of LIW, but there are tons of inaccuracies. For starters, Laura's hair was brown, not blond. This is not just a superficial part of the Little House books, this fact was mentioned over and over because Laura was envious of Mary's blond hair and so forth. (Why did Mary have red hair?!) There were things that bothered me more than that, however. The actress who played Laura was not well suited to play her, in my opinion. Laura was portrayed in her books and in any biographies as a spunky, tomboyish girl who grows into a independent and sincere young woman. In this movie, Laura came across as very...not like Laura. She wasn't feisty at all, she seemed shy and too sweet and altogether not like Laura. The scene where Laura finds the envelope stuck in the pocket with Almanzo's name in it and dreamily repeats his name...well, that's just cheesy. Also it is not factual. All I could keep thinking when I saw Pa was "John Boy Walton" which was not the actor's fault and I thought he did an okay job. He looked the part. The way the producers/writers portrayed Ma and Pa's relationship was odd and a little unnerving. It might have been true, but it was never mentioned straightforwardly in Laura's books and this is supposed to be the "true" story. Also, there was one scene that bothered me more than anything else. It was the scene where Laura and Almanzo had just gotten married and they drove out to a field and you could assume what they were trying to infer was going to happen when the scene cut out. Okay, of course that's true, they were married of course. But I just did not think it was classy to be putting it in the "True Story of LIW" when small children watch this and it never said anything about it in the books. I don't usually mind those sorts of scenes in other movies, but this sort of felt weird and unnecessary. 2/10

tj_mike25 This movie was trash, I have read an reread all of the Little house books since I was five years old, also biographies on Laura Ingalls Wilder. I thought they should have found a brunette Laura and that actress could hardly be though of being anywhere close to this great woman. Who was patsy??? What happened to Nellie??? Plus I hardly believe that Laura would ever have been making love in a field, she was from Victorian times for crying out loud. Even though she didn't like the restrictions of corsets and all the petticoats, but she was a lady, and would have never been seen with her hair unkempt, and wearing that hat! ugh I thought that was in poor taste, and wasn't Mary a blonde not a redhead. What happened to Carrie and Baby grace ?? They were just in the background once in awhile. Pa was portrayed as mean, and Ma was so cold I thought she was a loving woman, that was the way she was described in the books. I think a new movie should be made and it should include the whole life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, this movie was terrible and to think I looked forward to it so much. I do not recommend it to anyone.

BrokenAngel831 First and Formost I feel I have the right to comment on this movie as someone who once when she was 10 almost got the tour guide fired from the Farmer Boy Museum because I knew more about the house then the tour guide did.I have to say the writers and the directors of this film did a horrible job. A lot of things in this movie really just tick me off, for starters in the beginning when they were searching for the lost children in the storm, they found one of the children with a baby whom was still alive and it made me wonder, why in the world would someone have a baby outside in a snow storm?! it just doesn't make sense to me. They also showed during the snowstorm that the teacher was Almanzo's sister Eliza Jane Wilder which also in fact is wrong because she didn't on appear until after all of the blizzards. *They had a Redheaded Mary when in fact Mary had Blonde hair *The Laura they cast did a horrible job, she's not a great actress to begin with and she also had blonde hair when laura had brown. *The hail storm wasn't even close to looking realistic *They had a brown haired Grace, when really Grace had blonde hair. *In one scene Almanzo mentioned going with his brother Royal to visit there parents in New York, however when Almanzo was 18 his family moved to Spring Valley, Minnesota. At that time Laura was only 8. *The said Laura's teaching Job was 30 miles away when in fact it was only 12There is so much more but I don't want to run out of space, however I would like to say that truly the little things do count and had they fixed these problems along with the others this movie would have been much more enjoyable.

preach I truly enjoyed this movie. I have waited since it was announced last season to see it. I always enjoyed the T.V. series but, this movie seemed far more factual. I highly recommend it. Richard Thomas was a perfect Pa, Meredith Monroe was perfect as Laura and the rest of the cast was great, too.