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 - Anne Of Green GablesI love this movie. I love everything about this movie. It's such a wholesome program which is nice every so often. Megan Follows is brilliant in the title role. The rest of the cast feels like a real family. This mini-series is like comfort food for me. Rating:  - outstanding acting, dvd quality not so muchAs for the films--I am a total Megan Follows fan. Not to mention Colleen Dewhurst and Richard Farnsworth. Magic on screen. Outstanding. Amazing. Megan Follows played the part of Anne Shirley to absolute perfection. I will watch the first two DVD's endlessly. I never grow tired of watching my favorite books come to life on screen. Of course this was not the case for the "Continuing" story. It was not continuing anything as far as Lucy Maud Montgomery was concerned. I found the third film to be terribly depressing and it annoyed me to death that the third film did not follow the books. I've seen it once and do not plan on watching it again. (Apparently Megan Follows had many misgivings about the same thing). I'm glad she played Anne once more, and her acting was superb as usual but the final film had none of the magic of the first two. As for the quality of the DVD's. Not so good. Which is why I only gave four stars. On several occasions the voice track did not match the actors. This happened on both DVD's of the first two films. It was terribly distracting. It would right itself eventually, but it was annoying nonetheless. The Continuing story DVD had side two on side one. It took me a few minutes before I realized that what I was watching couldn't possibly be the opening for the film.I'm not sure what happened at the DVD factory but they screwed up several times. This is not a cheap set so to have several foul ups was frustrating. All in all, I'm thrilled to have Anne in DVD format. I just wish the quality of the DVD's matched the quality of the acting. Rating: - Reliving my childhoodI grew up watching these videos on VHS when my family was stationed overseas. They are the BEST movies to watch as a child, and now as an adult. I used to watch them with my sister & grandmother everytime we went to visit her. We would have "Anne" marathons. I love the innocence of the characters in the film. In today's world, I think that we are missing the innocence. My daughter is now 10 and I can't wait for her to have an "Anne" marathon with me & my sister. You will not regret watching these movies. I have to buy them on DVD now because I have watched them so many times on VHS that the tape actually broke! Rating: - Completely unforgettable - will charm your heartThis trilogy on DVD is a blessing from lugging around 9 VHS tapes for years! Since my childhood, Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea have been among my all time favorite movies - nothing will ever be quite like them. The Canadian locations are gorgeous, the costuming and script superb, and the actors will make you laugh and cry each time you watch it. Thankfully the movies are based closely enough to the books, with more details omitted than added to true storyline - in fact the film will surpass any reader's expectations. It breaks my heart that the cast was 15 years too old for the 3rd film - but the "continuing story" keeps in step with the characters in their new dramas and adventures. If you have not taken the Anne journey - do yourself a favor..... be transferred to Victorian country times with these films - the wholesome goodness and spectacular story will make any generation watch it again and again. Rating:  - Quality is NOT fantasticI had to return this product the first time because the first disc got stuck part way through. I can't tell you how annoying it is to be watching and 14 minutes into the second side of Part 1 just freezes. So I mailed it back, got another copy a few days later, and everything was fine up till Part 3. The disc is labelled wrong!! I put it in, was watching and getting confused, but figured, okay, so they jumped right into the action with this one. An hour later, credits rolled, and that's when I realized that that they they labelled Side One and Side Two backwards. I missed the whole first half of the third installment. At this point I was too irritated to go back and watch the first half. Can't recommend this product.
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