The film won five awards at the Young Artist Awards, including "Best Family Feature Film (Fantasy or Musical)". Overall, I found the movie very enjoyable, but I would advise parents of young children to find out more about the movie, before deciding on whether or not you'll let your kids watch it. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Reception [ edit ] Critical reception [ edit ] AnnaSophia Robb's portrayal of Leslie Burke was highly praised; one critic enjoyed her "engaging" performance", and thought "only the story's vibrant young heroine [.

Weta modified some of the creature designs, but ultimately remained faithful to Csupó's original designs. The filmmakers distanced themselves from the advertising campaign for the film, saying that it was deliberately misleading and made the film seem to be about, or occurring in, a fantasy world.He also said that he took on the role because he wanted to star in a film that his children could watch. For the next few days, Jess and Leslie spend their free time in the treehouse getting to know each other. The original score is composed by Aaron Zigman, who took over the scoring duties from Alison Krauss, after her exit from the project. He rides the bus to school with his younger sister, May Belle, where he avoids the school bully, Janice Avery.

I don't know, but when I find a fantasy film by Disney, I'm expecting something a little more exciting than a thoughtful meditation on how the friendship between and imaginations of two eccentric youths play an instrumental factor in their coming of age and finding paths in lives. I must say I did not see the second half of the film coming at all, it blew my emotional feelings in. Entertainment Weekly 's Gregory Kirschling was confused by the main characters' lack of excitement towards Terabithia, and felt the film could not decide if it was "a fantasy or a coming-of-age story".

Hutcherson said that the project appealed to him because of "the real life day-to-day drama as well as the arc of the character Jesse". The big twist in the final act is emotionally devastating, even for an adult movie, and brings the characters and the audience back to reality.

Bridge to Teribithia' Essay Contest Offers Big Prizes to Students and Teachers Exclusively at Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre from 2/16 – 3/29". T. to Terabithia, where they fight off the Dark Master's creatures resembling their bullies, this time with the troll as their ally. In the film, teenagers Jesse Aarons (Hutcherson) and Leslie Burke (Robb) create "Terabithia", a fantasy world, which they use to cope with their troubled reality and spend their free time together. Shoot, maybe I'm just worried because you know that a coming-of-age drama with prominent fantasy elements is just begging to be cheesed up by the usual subtlety issues of Neal Morse-I mean, Disney (I've got Transatlantic stuck in my head, so after this review, I might need to go take, oh, say, an hour or so to listen to one of their songs). Csupó reasons that the movie "deals with so many issues including friendship, and maybe first innocent love, things like that", so it "made more sense" to make the characters older.What Jeff was able to do as an outsider who wasn't so attached to the story was to really let his imagination go free and make up this world in a wonderful way", David said.

As cheesy as this film is, someone was bound to mess up in this cast, but really, most everyone on the screen convinces in the character portrayals more so than the filmmakers do, and that especially goes for leads Josh Hutcherson and AnnaSophia Robb, who share electric chemistry, bookended by individual charm and even a degree of effective dramatic layering.Catsoulis found the film was able to handle adult topics "with nuance and sensitivity", and being consistently smart and "delicate as a spider web", it was the kind of children's movie "rarely seen nowadays". Other good performances include Robert Patrick as Jess' dad and Bailee Madison as his little sister. The Wall Street Journal critic Joe Morgenstern felt that despite the occasional misuse of enchantment—"brief spasms of overproduced fantasy"—the novel's screen adaptation was told with "agreeable simplicity in between computer-generated monsters". He went on to say that "she had such a charm, even before the camera, she was just like a little sweetheart.