Despite the mainly positive reviews, I wondered why I had bothered when the film started, with strange Brian talking to the camera. I just didn't get the humour. However things did improve later and the story actually got better and better when Charles arrives. I have to say it was original but weird and not really for the big screen.
However, Where The Crawdads Sing is made for the biggest screen and looked great at Cineworld's Superscreen. My review of the book on which this film is based, drooled over the landscape, nature and young Kya's coping with desertion and isolation near the North Carolina coast. Unfortunately a movie like this one could not capture this first half of the book and so skipped through to the romantic melodrama or murder mystery of the second. Like the book this is far less successful but obviously more cinematic.
The cast were also far too good looking to be credible. Daisy Edgar Jones seemed to have a different costume for every scene which became quite distracting. The two young men were terribly boring. There was far too much gloss on what could have been a much grittier interpretation. Although I did have to give the film credit for the big twist at the very end that is only shown in a moment.
Well it is the summer holidays, and decent dramas are few and far between. This sequel to The Railway Children is quite ordinary but harmless, except for some added racism. Strange? Will it make a star of the older child played by Beau Gadsdon as it did Jenny Agutter? Although she and Sheridan Smith did not seem all that interested, but that may have been the script. There is a late cameo from Tom Courtney but he is now 85 it shows.
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