Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018) by Timw001 — 12 Mar 2018

Overall not a great movie. Lacks the basics needed for story telling. No character has any development. The characters never actually solve a problem. The villain had no motivation or purpose. And the solution was the power of love, which is just lazy story telling. The tone was consistent with that of a soap opera. Scenes that were trying to be magical were just dull.

At one point of the main characters becomes a flying lettuce. This scene took up about ten minutes but didn't lead to anything. Nor did it come up again. It was pure fluff.

At no point did any main character solve a problem. A lot was grown at them but they were basically completely passive in a solution. The villain also did not have clear motivations as to why it wanted to kidnap the main character. But it was defeated by love.

There were no subtlety in any narrative or character. If a character had an insecurity you were directly told. If they overcame this you were not shown this but instead directly told this. It's just bad story telling.