Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Reviews

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a pretty good cast, I thought I might as well give it a try. Well, honestly, I didn’t like this movie, I thought it was a really chore to watch and I was really surprised to find out that Roger Ebert actually really enjoyed this movie. I mean, it did look good (probably too good when you are actually dealing with the Great Depression, hobbos and what not) and the actors did what they could with the material but I really had a hard time with this mix of childiness and heavy topics such as people losing their homes, their jobs and many other things. The point is how can you make a kids flick about the Great Depression? I don’t think it is impossible and Roberto Begnini with ‘La vita e bella’ or anything involving Charles Chaplin showed us that you can make something light from something actually rather depressing. Here, every dramatic aspect was toned down by something whimsical happening on the side and, at the end, you get a really moralistic message that it wasn’t so bad after all and it even actually made them stronger. To conclude, even though it wasn’t really a bad movie, I thought it was rather misguided and I don’t think it is really worth a look.