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Summary: kit kittredge- an american girl
Comment: The shipping and description were very good. bought this for a gift and it was very well received.
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Summary: Not Just For Girls
Comment: In a way, it's unfortunate that this movie is an "American Girl" movie. The marketing would imply that it is targeted at a very narrow group of 7-12 year old girls -- which, I guess, it is. However, this is a great movie that everyone will enjoy. I initially saw it in the theater with my two daughters not expecting much. I was wrong! It's a Nancy Drew-style mystery movie, with a first rate all-star cast. It reminded me of something Disney would have put out in the 70s. Everyone will enjoy this movie once they get past the "girly" title.
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Summary: Warning! We got a blank DVD!
Comment: BEWARE! We got a BLANK DVD & a code to download the movie from Cinema Now for an additional fee of $1.99. We had already paid Amazon full price plus shipping for the movie. We had to download software from Cinema Now, create an account with them, have a DVD burner, & have enough available memory on the computer (1.65 GB). A week past Christmas we still don't have it figured out. I am extremely disappointed in Amazon for not including this information in their product description.
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Summary: Kinda Boring
Comment: Kit Kittredge American girl is about a young girl who aspires to be a reporter while growing up during the depression. The American Girl series is a wholesome series, featuring girls from different walks of life and backgrounds who face challenges and overcome them using ther brains, their friendships and common sense.
I felt Kit Kittredge wasn't my favorite story and was actually a bit boring. Kit and her friends were nice, but lacked that spark that made them loveable (Like Samantha) and were a bit wooden. This was the Depression, and yet, Kit and her mother were fairly well off. They could've done a bit more to illustrate how hard times were by having them... Suffer a bit (such as having to grow their own fruits and vegetables) and by living without more essentials.
The subplot involving the robbery was a bit silly and the hobos.. Eh. Took up most of the story. Children might enjoy Kit Kittredge, but I found the acting a bit wooden, and the hobo's and their story overwhelmed Kit's a bit, there just wasn't spark in this story to capture my interest.
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Summary: Good movie, but basic DVD with few extras
Comment: This is a good movie for families, and if you have a young girl in your family that likes the American Girl series, she will enjoy it especially. Abigail Breslin nails a performance that carries the movie, and the look and feel of the movie evokes the time period well. As such, this will most likely get multiple viewings in your house and it's just marginally worth purchasing.
The theatrical aspect ratio of this movie was 1.85:1 and this release has the picture cropped down to a widescreen-TV-matching aspect ratio of 1.78:1. While that only represents less than a 4% loss of picture composition (unless it was open-matted to gain extra height from the original negative), I'd prefer it if movie studios didn't modify the composition of their movies on Blu-ray or DVD.
Even though there are trailers for other American Girl movies, there is no trailer for the movie on the disc. I wish that more studios would do this, as it provides a way to see how the movie was marketed at the time and it's something that should be easy to include.
Normally, I'd like to see more extras on a disc to make it worth purchasing. Such extras reward those who choose to purchase instead of rent and it allows them to get more enjoyment from the title that goes past just watching the movie.
If you can get it at a good price, this DVD is worth purchasing if you have an American Girl fan in your house.
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