Simply Perfect

Absolutely the worst movie.

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I had to watch this movie several times when I was younger. It was mainly a case of adults thinking "hey look its a kid movie, kids will like it." I saw this at least 4x at school because of this. This movie is really boring. I don't see how any child would be consistently entertained throughout the whole thing. All I remember is some bad acting, bad effects, and a story worse than what was originally in the book. I also remember being really bored. I wouldn't recommend this movie.

On the Zuckerman farm, a sow just gave birth to 11 adorable piglets. When the runt of the litter is faced with death from Mr. Arable (Kevin Anderson), he is befriended by a young farm-girl named Fern Arable(Dakota Fanning) who names the little piglet Wilbur (Dominic Scott Kay). When he moves into the other barn, he also forms a bond with a very highly intellectual spider named Charlotte (Julia Roberts), who has great feelings of amazement in this rather humble porker. Wilbur is oblivious to the fact that once spring pigs enter the smokehouse up the hill, they never come back if you know what I mean. But the very resourceful arachnid starts using her web to spin out words for the adult pig as a way to persuade Farmer Zuckerman (Gary Basaraba) that this pig has a lot of talent that can't be turned into ham. It's an adorable innocent and very lively adaptation with great animation from the barnyard animals, I just wished it was more like a live-action film. The reason I say that is because most of the critics will eventually start comparing it to the 1995 "Babe: Pig in the City" which set the tone for other films to follow. Sure in 1973 Hanna-Barbara made a full-length animated film (featuring the voices of Debbie Reynolds and Paul Lynde), standard animation would've also been a real homage to the E.B. White classic children's story which gives younger age demographics the liberation to open their minds through the gaps where imagination is truly required. The animated farm animals are vibrant and adoring, but the real meal ticket to this movie is the dynamic chemistry between the pig and the spider that will tug at your heartstrings. Dakota Fanning is truly remarkable in her role as the caring and nurturing mother-figure to the young piglet Wilbur. And even though the barnyard animals are hard to ignore, Fanning's performance is also very enchanting as she plays a surrogate mother to young Wilbur like its her very own. She feeds him, wheels him on a doll pram and cuddles with to read stories together. Eventually, he get sent to the opposing barn where he's nor the main focus. He's usurped by other barnyard animals who could talk. And this is where Charlotte steps into the fray and becomes friends Wilbur. We worry about the young piglet that his future could be in danger because he doesn't know that the smokehouse nearby is where good little piggies magically morph into bacon. But Charlotte tries to avoid this from happening, by teaching the pig words by spinning her web and trying to prove to Farmer Zuckerman that he is no ordinary pig and to eventually win the hearts of the other barnyard animals. It ends in the traditional format that after Wilbur has entered a fair and he notices that Charlotte has created an egg-sac and that she is slowly dying and can't return home so as she dies he takes her egg sac home. The egg bursts out and hundreds of baby spiders come out and leave the premises with the exception of three named Joy, Aranea, and Nellie and they follow their late mother's legacy and became Wilbur's friends.The voice actors in this film were quite extraordinary. Julia Roberts tops the list as caring a sympathetic spider, Charlotte captures the essence of what you would expect from E.B White's penmanship. Steve Buscemi was also very engaging as the cranky rat named Templeton. Other strong notable voice performances come from Oprah Winfrey, John Cleese and Robert Redford. But the performance that will have you in stitches is the acting from Dominic Scott Kay as Wilbur the pig. The film is light and innocent and the subliminal messages about the circles of life are demonstrated flawlessly. The cinematography is a palette of beautiful colours, especially when it's autumn and the leaves are turning different colours. But it's the barnyard animals that carry the film and their characters bring life to the film. It's hard to believe that it took about 40 pigs to play the role of Wilbur. The only CGI moment of Wilbur was when he bumps his snout into a fence at high speed. The kids watching will enjoy the scenes when the animals interact and jive with one another.

I'm going to get this out of the way fast. The only downside to this film is the comedy. It's pointless, unfunny, and just childish. But the rest of the movie........ Great!!!!!I grew up reading the book and watching the Hanna-Barbara movie. The book is a classic and always will be, the movie was good but revisiting it; the animation is awkward, the made up story lines are dumb and the songs for lack of a better word are just bad. When this live-action remake came out I actually wasn't that exited. It took me a long time to finally sit down and give it a view. Think about when you read the book. Charlotte's Wed really gives you a warm tingly feeling when reading it. For the most part the movie transfers the sensibility of the book to the screen. If you are a fan of the book you'll like this movie. If you are gung-ho about the original film you probably won't like it. Whatever it's worth I say give it a watch it's on Netflix right now so stop reading this review you probably don't care about and watch it and draw your own conclusion.

Wilbur the little pig is taken good care from a girl. However, she has to leave the pig from her home. The pig becomes to live in a mountain hut with other animals a part from the girl.The movie is very moving story. Animal are described vivid manner. Wilbur is very cute. In Other animals, I like rat and baby spider in this film. I don't remember his name, but the rat in this movie is very tricky. He looks like dirty and he always speak like a perverse mood. However, I cannot hate his character. Because, he working for Wilbur very hard. Of course Charlotte, the spider is done the best for Wilbur. Charlotte is very smart. It is also helpful to learn English vocabulary from her writing for me. In general, pig, spider and rat are not so popular because of their ugly appearance. In this film, they play an active part.Children should watch this movie. It is help for education. People can learn friendship, life and death, and discrimination. I recommend you to watch it with your children.