Artivels Undescribable Perfection

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

gavin6942 Adaption of the famous Oscar Wilde tale about a young American girl (Neve Campbell) that helps a British ghost (Patrick Stewart) find rest and forgiveness.What fool cast Neve Campbell alongside Patrick Stewart? Stewart, despite being best known for his role on "Star Trek", is a great actor with a love of Shakespeare and the classics. Campbell is a disposable actress who has no range of emotion and is doomed to appear in countless sequels to "Scream".The story is good, the effects are good... the dad is more than adequately made out to be a jerk (almost too much, really... being a physicist does not mean you need to be a heartless father with no sense of imagination). I suppose this could have been worse.

ozthegreatat42330 Despite what some people have said about this TV movie, it was my impression that it was simply magnificent. Patrick Stewart is in his Element in Shakespearean characterization and this is among his finest roles. Neve Campbell brought a warm sensitivity to the role of Virginia and gave a moving performance. The script was first rate, and contrary to what some have said, playing this story in a modern setting works remarkably. That is one of the strengths of great literature that it can be shaped to different times. I was riveted to this production, I having forty years or more since I saw the Charles Laughton version. I can highly recommend this version as a great film and a great family film.

duncan-bartlett I watched this movie by accident on TV and it was so unbelievably awful I could not switch it off. Every single piece of wit and intelligence has been removed from the Oscar Wilde story by the inept screenplay writer. It barely matters because the dire acting, clichéd camera-work and cloying music would have ruined anything resembling like a decent script anyway. The worst performance comes from Patrick Stewart who comes across as the most hammy, talentless, minor mock-Shakespearean nincompoop as the ghost. "Get thee out of here!" he screams at one stage while waving his arms like a pantomime villain. A truly terrible film and why wonders why Stewart, who can act when called upon to do so, has soiled his reputation by making worthless pieces of crap like this and the XMen.

Mort-31 Some famous stories are prone to being moved to another epoch and, as such, becoming an embarrassing TV-movie. Oscar Wilde's Canterville Ghost is one of them. This TV movie for kids is utterly cheap, concerning acting, character work, credibility, directing and even concerning the modest special effects. As often, the question arises: what was this made for?