 |  | Little House On The Prairie is my favorite |  |
I think they did really well with this new version of the classic story of Little House On The Prairie based off of the third book in the Little House series of books Little House On The Prairie. Little House has been my favorite book series,and tv series for ever since i was a kid,amd it still is. Little House captures all of the emotions,feelings,and way to treat your fellow man. I enjoy the tv series of Little House On The Prairie alot,and when i saw that they were coming out with a new version of Little House On The Prairie i didn't know if it would be as good as the tv series. I bought this watched it,and i loved it right away. It did capture the feeling of the pioneer life,the lands looked really good as prairie land,the indians were amazing,and looked like i was watching real indians. I think it really kept faithful to the feeling of the book,and the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder,and the feeling of how her life was.I also like the Pilot of the NBC Little House,which is based off the Little House On The Prairie book,but in this version they added more,and had more of the characters from the book. It was well shot,and it got the feeling on video of the prairie. I really think Kyla Chavarria was perfect as Laura and Laura to a t,and Danielle Chuchran was Mary to a T,and she looked like how i pictured Mary in my head when i read the books. I don't think the actors/actresses who played Pa,Ma,and Mr. Edwards were that good as them. I think Michael Landon,Karen Grassle,and Victor French were better. But i do think that Kyle and Melissa Gilbert are the same as Half-Pint they did really good jobs playing her,and were really believeable as Laura. I also think that Danielle and Melissa Sue Anderson were both perfect as Mary,and both did wonderful jobs playing her. I give it five stars for capturing the pioneer time period on the prairie that Laura lived through,and that the actresses who played Laura and Mary were spot on perfect,and cute as them. So take it as one Little House fan to another,that this is worth seeing for all of us Little House and Laura Ingalls Wilder fans.
April 16, 2008My son and I have been reading the Little House books together and when I found that Disney made a Little House movie I decided to buy it. The music didn't fit at all and the books, themselves are full enough of thrilling stories to fill a movie. Nothing needs to be added, but of course they always do. They portrayed Laura in too much a "Girl Power" way instead of the sweet and determined girl that she was. Danielle Chuchran (Mary Ingalls and a former neighbor of mine) was not the right choice for her role either. Just read the books.
March 19, 2008 | | Beautiful Cinematography/ NOT True to the Books | |
This DVD does have beautiful cinematography, just as some other reviews have said. The outdoor scenes are very realistic in portraying what the rugged woodlands and prairies of the late 1800's were probably like. However, many reviews have claimed that this miniseries was closer to following the events in Laura Ingalls Wilder's book series than any other television series or movie has ever been, and after watching it we were very disappointed that it does not follow the books more closely at all. If anything there are even more differences than those described in Laura's books. I would not recommend buying this if you are looking for a closer portrayal of the events in the Little House book series. If you enjoy a different presentation for a good family movie, and enjoy the beautiful and realistic scenery, it might be a good choice.
March 3, 2008| | | Different Style Disney's Little House on the Prairie | |
I gave this a 5. I am a Little House Geek and have especially followed the Micheal Landon, NBC version of Little House shows. I can never get enough so I did watch this on tv when it aired a few years ago. I decided to purchase it with some Christmas money. I thought that this movie was much more thorough on the Ingall's trip out west. I found it to have a different style then Micheal Landon's version but it was still very good. The actors/actresses did an excellent job. Even my 8 year old son enjoyed this. It is very long so you probably will want to watch in two sittings or will need to set aside a lot of time to watch it in it's entirety.
February 10, 2008 | | We didn't like this version | |
We didn't like this version at all. First of all, the claim to be "closer to the books" is not true. It is also not closer to Laura Ingalls' actual life either. A few examples: the fact that Ma constantly has her hair down and blowing all over the place with her shirt unbuttoned to show cleavage; the fact that Laura is BLONDE (horrors) when the book goes out of its way several times to talk about Laura's brown hair and how she didn't like it; the fact that Carrie is completely absent when, in actuality, she was born in Kansas (she is present in the book, but it was a fact that Laura altered when she wrote the books.) In this film, she is completely written out.
Not to mention the fact that poor Mrs. Scott is portrayed as a psycopathic nut - (poor woman; in the book she nurses them during their malaria!) And what's with Pa fighting a whole pack of wolves barehanded without so much as a scratch with Laura with him? Ma would never have allowed Laura to go on any kind of cattle drive with Pa - Mary is disrespectful and outspoken to Mrs. Scott, etc etc. Laura is way too bold and outspoken -she was actually quite a shy person in real life and mentions several times in the books about being afraid of strangers and afraid to speak to people.
This might have been a cute movie if it were just the story of pioneers, but to actually call it "Laura's" story and pretend that it's closer to the books than Michael Landon's original premiere movie in 1974 is inaccurate.
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