Fun Fact: The author of the original book based Leslie's death on the real-life death of her son's best friend, who was struck by lightning on a beach. It was actually one of the first books written for children to ever tackle such a heavy theme. ...I'm sad now.
Kids can be so cruel, I remember this one kid telling me to go look under the wheel of my parents car for my younger brother. For context my Brother at a year old was run over in an accident involving my father driving the car...... so yeah... I threw a chair at that one kid.... split his lip, gave him a black eye and broke his nose...
That's sick and I am sorry to hear that. I'm glad you gave him a lesson. Maybe he can learn about it before he says something stupid again that gets him killed.
+Masquerade the bad thing about internet now, is that everyone can say anything they want without consequence, because if you say something bad in the real world, ya gonna get smacked
Principal: we have had several complaints about you kicking off several kids from the bus. Bus driver: because i am the king of busworld. Principal: well king you have been overthrown. Welcome to unemployment land.
Or the kid could have just said... I didn't do that. Was that Soooooo hard to say. There are wet rags and then there's whatever he is. I don't see how fantasy land would have given him self esteem. Maybe boxing lessons... or a job building something.... but running from trolls?
WesT That's just evil, why not just give him a black cat and a twirling black mustache "Hah, your friend Lily is dead, all my friends are alive hahmmmm yes"
@Casandshail No, she would be princess and first in line of succession until her brother the king has heirs on his own (assuming there aren't other siblings). Queen Consort is the king's wife.
How would she he queen? If she had a brother, there is obviously a male heir to the throne. Therefore, no queen. "Historically speaking..." Not sure you know what you are talking about... What history? What country? Example(s)?
I laughed so hard because that's why I went to see it. I was a huge fantasy geek with LOTR and Narnia (for some examples), so when I saw the adds for this I got excited. I hadn't read the book yet, so when I watched this I definitely was confused, I felt ripped off lol. I liked it better after I read the book
I was obsessed with fantasy films at the time this came out and when I saw the trailer, I was expecting something like Narnia or Spiderwick Chronicles XD Needless to say, it was an alright movie but definitely a bit of a disappointment
I will not lie I fell for that too. I was expecting ‘Harry Potter-Narnia-Middle Earth’ but, even though it’s still a decent movie, got this ‘life is too short’ movie instead.
I trained to be a schoolbus driver last year. It is actually illegal to kick a child off the bus en route to their destination. You can ban them from riding the bus for the rest of the school year, but it's not really the bus driver's decision to make. He would need permission from the dispatcher. Also, I really hated that scene. It was really annoying how that child lied about getting tripped and got the other kid kicked off the bus. That's why I'm glad I was homeschooled. Also, you're not supposed to humiliate the student by punishing them in front of all the other students. You're supposed to send them to the front of the bus and punish them privately. The point I'm trying to make is that guy should be fired.
Being a bus driver is hard work when you consider you have to deal with the other drivers on the road (at least 50% drive like idiots) and having to deal with the students on the bus (at least 50% act like assholes, no matter their grade) at the same time. If you could throw kids off the bus like in this movie, the bus driver would have thrown over half the students off the bus.
I think you're missing the point of the animation style. Before Jess met Leslie, all he did was fantasize. He knew they were just drawings, and was okay with that. Then he met Leslie, and for a moment, she managed to convince him that fantasy was reality.
videohistory722 Although these things really don’t look all that great on repeat viewings. He’s kinda right on that part. And yeah, it would be really effective if they actually played into their everyday life more, since that’s what the movie was trying to say at times.
I do have to say imagine if in the movie Leslie found/saw Jess' drawings and decided to put them into their imagination world. Then you see the creatures start out as drawings in real life. As Leslie puts more details in it we see, through Jess' point of view, the creatures go from drawings to real life. I think that would have been a better idea.
This never suited him, but he came to terms with it. Then Leslie showed him that it could happen differently, but she used technology for this that was millennia ahead of Earth's. And from the final song it clearly follows that he remained with this opinion.
In my personal opinion, I don't think it was done in the best way. I still enjoy movie, but the fantasy parts just felt super random and thrown out there a lot of the time.
@@salazar556 Because it was done differently. He would have really fallen from the tree with the keys, if not for the reality of the embodied fantasies that caught him in the air near the ground. Therefore, no convincing just for a moment was supposed here, and Leslie convinced him forever. You write fantasy parts, but the thing is that this is a single canvas, and there are no divisions into parts in it. Leslie immediately overtakes everyone in the race, and while she has reading her essay, Jess sees bubbles, but thinks that his imagination played out with a psychological, as he believes, phenomenon of an invisible friend. When they climb the tree to look out over Terabithia, gravity is seen to be weakening. In the church, Leslie receives a beam, which then points them to the keys. The troll that caught Jess when he fell is hung with keys. While Jess is next to Leslie, the rope does not break. After she leaves, he and his sister walk along, the same unsafe as that rope, bridge, when he realizes that Leslie herself broke the rope so as not to puzzle the police and before that she held the rope intact with magic. And he realized that she would hold the bridge in the same way.
I got hit by a car last week, and it turns out God doesn't actually damn you to hell when you die. He just sends you to Bus World. It's not terribly interesting, but at least they have internet access.
Alright Terribithians, let us dive into our adventure! -Uh, Leslie, please tell me this is gonna be a normal one? A troll of 1 thousand fires attacks! -Oh Christ.
I actually really loved this movie, yes, it gets a bit wimsy. But remember Leslie was dealing with moving and not having real friends until Jess. And speaking of Jess, he was being bullied and was being looked over by his parents until Leslie died. And when they weren't overlooking him (especially his dad) they were asking a lot of him, his younger sister taking up a lot of the attention when all Jess wants is approval. Which makes it more impactful when he and his dad had the moment in the woods and Jess sought forgiveness from his sister. Over all it seemed like Jess's imagination was being squashed from multiple angles and Leslie was fueling both there imaginations to help Jess as well as help him, dispite them never directly addressing Jess's problems completely.
@@lilithjade4363 it was actually screenwritten by the son of the author, who the book is based on, so i would argue it still holds up as it’s own. My opinion but I greatly prefer the movie.
I never watched this movie but I dead-ass always thought that was Dakota Fanning. And, upon looking up this actress's wiki page, I'm realizing that every movie that I thought starred Fanning (Because of Winn-Dixie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Race to Witch Mountain, etc.) actually starred her. My whole life has been a lie.
JonDoesGaming yeah i mean i watched it again last weekend and realize how much of a crazy twist in tone the movie took and the great lesson it taught to a generation
@@isexuallyidentifyasukraini5407 That's why you make sure you threaten lawyers. They'll listen to the side that has lawyers. Especially in the event that someone ends up killing themselves because of bullies.
"Beep, beep, beep, beep. You know what that is? My loser detector." Well it must be going off pretty often when you're by yourself. Also that's the stupidest insult I've ever heard.
Believe it or not, in the book, the way they tell Jess Leslie's dead is for one of his sisters to say straight out "Your girlfriend's dead and Momma thought you were dead too."
One point I think Critic misses about the “overly-whimsical” scenes is that they’re trying to highlight beauty where people normally don’t notice it. The other month I was at the museum Bodyworlds-The Happiness Project in Amsterdam. One of the things they had was two simple swings. Nothing fancy about them, just invited people to use them if they wanted. I read into this a little deeper. By using the swing, you gain a feel of excitement in your stomach, you’re more aware of the air around you, and you can feel that little more alive. I think they are telling the same story with that rope swing. The film is trying to highlight that there is beauty all around, but people are generally too occupied to see that beauty
Just like the dude in American Beauty who loves the video of a plastic bag…oh wait that was stupid then and it’s stupid now. Not every normal thing is whimsical
Yeah we definitely wanted to see one of the main characters hit there head and struggle to breath as they drown to death. What were they thinking I miss leslie. 😭😭😭
locke103 I ducking hate films like that. It’s just too plain and obvious to me, you know, they’re always thinking of something and are always right. Because "they can be anything they want".
God... even watching a comedic review of this movie still makes me cry. The first time I saw that movie, the scene where they said she had died really came as a punch in the stomach. I just can't brace myself for it, it always hits me right in the feels. Heck, there are still tears rolling down my cheeks as I write this...
I loved the contrast in this movie. Apart from when I broke off at the end. I loved how it was all happy and cringy and whimsical, and just darn right stupid and inconsequential. I thought it was going to be about Leslie being annoyed that he had a crush on the teacher or some dumb Disney shit like that. But no. The movie catches you off guard. Leslie died. It did it so well. When he walked through the woods, it was the exact same path/track just, Leslie wasn’t there. It was also so silent and empty feeling. This really got me as I was just sitting there like “where’s Leslie?” This movie managed to hit me with this wall off unexpected realism that I had never experienced before. You see your hit with Leslie’s death, but you don’t accept it. You expect, since it’s a Disney movie, and due to the inconsequential tone set up before. That maybe Leslie’s still out there. Maybe. Just maybe some weird magical shit will happen. I found my self begging that she would have been there when he went walking. It was only when he was walking his sister down to the magical place. That the realisation hit. Leslie, wasn’t there anymore. Not tagging along behind, or talking to him. She was gone. She left her world, and terebithia behind. This movie is the first time in anything where I have refused to get over a characters death. This movie put me in the shoes of the protagonist, unlike any other.
I felt the same until the girl started getting creepy with her comments. I started thinking "...does her dad molests her or something?...is this where they are going?"
>it was all happy and cringy and whimsical "Whimsical digestion", Critic called it. Which is dumb because it has absolutely nothing to do with digestion. Think about it. That look the Critic described. It's trying to create a notion of enchantment, of whimsy. But it fails. It's...Flimsy whimsy. It's flimsical!
The first film that I remember leading to genuinely feeling sad was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, after Cedric dies and his father wails over his dead body. I had to hold back the tears until the movie was over. Then, far more recently, there was this movie, which had even more of an effect. I've been thinking about it constantly for well over a month.
The Cat in The Hat (the disturbing live action one, that is) and Norm of the North were part of my childhood. For the first several years of my life, I couldn't afford to have cinematic standards.
To be fair, you can probably find fault with every single movie in existence if you look for it hard enough. All that really matters is that we have fun watching them. Because if we're enjoying ourselves, we can forgive pretty much anything.
I think "incredibly flawed" is an exaggeration. That would mean it is a *terrible* film, which it isn't. If you watch this video again, you'll find that many of the things that the NC points out are either not things he necessarily says are 'flaws', or are just instances of him nitpicking for humorous effect. One thing he points out is that the world portrayed in the film is too whisical and perfect, and while I agree partly, he completely forgets things like Jesse's fathers criticism of and lack of affection for him, and even if he did mention it, I can still see him criticising it for being an inadequate attempt to make the film more gritty, which is exactly what he wanted anyway. Plus, straight after the painting scene at the Burkes' house, Jess comes home, and you can see his facial expression suddenly change as he realises he now has to come back to reality for the rest of the day and face his unnaffectionate, tense family life. This film is a bit too innocent, but not by much, and while it isn't *deep*, it certainly isn't shallow.
Assailant and there is nothing wrong with that. I still love Tarzan and Hercules, eventhough they are flawed, because they were my favorite movies growing up.
Who else wants to see a horror sequel to this where Jess is haunted by Leslie's ghost? Just imagine it: She could make him see Terabithia at times when he shouldn't be, like in school!
+2 bros and 1up What if Jess is been dead the whole time and he's actually in purgatory, that Leslie is actually his '"otherself" that he made up as an alternate ego and wished he wanted to be like because she's a representation of him when when he was alive on Earth (including everything that happened to him when he was alive) and his death because she died the exact same way he died (the rope, getting hit horribly by a branch, and drowning), also Terabithia and the Bridge represent a place that he wished to escaped and live in back when he was alive, and all the positive turnarounds in the movie you see is what he wished had of done to fix when he was still alive, but the thing is he doesn't know he's dead and he's thinks this is actual reality or possibly a dream.
We don’t really know what Leslie seeing because we aren’t looking from her pov but she’s helping and telling Jess to imagine it and that’s what we’re seeing. So they’re basically imagining the same thing
Dude i thought it was too cruel for the bully to mock him after the girls death, I wouldn't put it past some douche bag but if i remember in the original the bully actually showed remorse and sympathy.
By the way, I recently watched the 1985 (TV) film version, and I can tell that in neither that version nor in the novel do any of the bullies show sympathy for Jesse. The only sympathy shown to him is an implied conversation initiated by Janice Avery in the 2007 film version.
By the way, I recently watched the 1985 (TV) film version, and I can tell that in neither that version nor in the novel do any of the bullies show sympathy for Jesse. The only sympathy shown to him is an implied conversation initiated by Janice Avery in the 2007 film version.
I currently watched the movie again and I picked up on some very interesting things, first if you look at the fantasies as what they could symbolize or what is exactly happening, it becomes a lot more interesting. For example, the scene where Jess falls from the tree getting his dad's keys, it may seem out of nowhere there being a troll that catches him with the bully's face. But what I think actually happened is that the bully just so happened to be walking when she saw Jess fall and she caught him, and Jess and Leslie having their overactive imaginations, and the fact that to kids their age 8th graders do look like these tall, big threats they perceived her being this giant troll. So, for the issues of the fantasies, I say that we the audience are looking purely at the world through Jess and Leslie's eye, whimsy and all :)
Yes, several Terabithian creatures are meant to represent the bullies ('Squogers'= Scott Hoager and 'Hairy Vultures' = Gary Fulcher). I noticed that they are meant to parallel the difficult people Jess and Leslie face in their daily lives, but this is done only VERY superficially. It looks like the filmmakers decided to just throw in the minor detail of the squogers saying, "Beep, beep, beep," and the hairy vultures saying, "Dead meat," as a tepid attempt at symbolism just for the sake of throwing a bone to the audience. This shows a lack of imagination on their part. This brings me to one the main complaints I have about this film: the Terabithian fantasy scenes are too literal-minded. There is a disconnect between Jesse and Leslie's fantasy and their real lives. The audience might be left wondering what's going on in Terabithia. Are these monsters real? No, because Terabithia is merely imaginary. But, then, how does everything in Terabithia seem so real? How do the creatures interact physcially with the characters? That's what you'd expect if Terabithia was actually real, like Narnia is in The Chronicles of Narnia. But Terabithia is not real, and we know it, which kills the suspence of these action scenes. It would have been better if this expressly imaginary world was presented as just that: imaginary. Instead of being used for action alone, the Terabithian scenes could have been used to deepen the story, while still maintaining an air of fantasy. Jesse could be drawing fantastical beasts on his drawing pad, while imagining them in ever more and more detail in front of him in Terabithia, as if projecting them with his mind; Jess and Leslie could race each other 2 or 3 times, using an imaginary monster chasing after them as motivation to run as fast as possible; Leslie could tell him stories (as she does in the novel) while Jess visualises them, and these stories could have been parables or fables that parallel the difficulties the two of them face in life, or their friendship; some of the creatures could have more than superficially represented real-life characters, with Jess and Leslie having conversations with (or at least about) them, as Nostalgia Critic suggest in the scene with the giant; and there could have even perhaps been a mock swordfight scene between Jess and Leslie, with fantasy-style armour and weapons and a foreshadowing of Leslie's death. Despite all this, I think it is overall a very good film, mostly because the tragedy in it is so evocatively portrayed. This film was a before-and-after for me. It brought me to tears. I'm still thinking about it more than a month later. It has a couple of moderately significant flaws, but even these are partly redeemed by its potent portrayal of friendship and loss.
@@fishofgold6553 The thing is that the book was written by a mother, and the script was written by her son. The film is closer to the real events on which the story is based. Based on the book, you are sure that Terabithia is a fiction, as his mother was sure. But the son was not sure of this and remained in this opinion.
PetShark Studios I remember that book! We read along with an audiobook of it, which made me mad because I mm really good at reading books with emotion and energy.
I love the Outsiders, but I didn't find it did exactly what Nostalgia Critic said at the end. Because it wasn't kids being kids-- it was poor kids in a gang dealing with violent shit. You did identify with them and they acted real, but there was a lot of violence that made the death of a main character something that wouldn't have been like just the death of an innocent child who just has an accident doing kid stuff like this movie wanted to portray. Johnny was the most "innocent" one in the gang and all, but he did kill another boy. The kids felt like real kids in a bad situation, but they were kids reacting to violence with violence in a violent situation. It was touching, it caused sympathy and empathy, but the characters were never just kids doing normal kid stuff.
It took me longer than I care to admit to realising the poem was foreshadowing her death To be fair I haven't watched this since I was in primary school reading the book alongside. Which was slightly more engaging, but not too much better
26:30 Okay first of all, being a princess does not "make" you anyone's daughter, it's the other way round, being the king or queen's daughter will make you a princess. But more to the point, a princess can also be the king or queen's sister, George VI's sister was Princess Mary, and the current queen's sister was Princess Margaret. The only way a woman in royalty can be queen is if she's either the heir to the thrown or married to the king.
"girls can't wear pants?" well for one thing, in the book, I vaguely recall that she was more a "tomboy" as he would describe her. And I don't know how churches were at the time, but yeah He was surprised about her actually wearing a dress in the book. In the movie, yeah she wears pants all the time.. but she has pink colors, cute clothes, it doesn't seem as "tomboy" to us as the main character in the book. I should really re-read the book since i was 12 the last time i read it.
because she want really a tomboy, so OP is writing it between quotes as in how she truly wasnt but other people thought she was just for wearing pants ;)
To be completely fair, my band teacher took me to the zoo (this was in 2009) I was "the poor kid" and so is this character. Maybe it's an art teacher's way of keeping culture alive 😁
Yeah when I saw this movie as a kid I felt upset. I thought it'd be like Narnia and I didn't get a chance to see Narnia so I was really excited. Sigh.... 😢
You dodged a bullet. The Narnia movies went from good to meh to why are you even naming them after the books anymore. Edit: That's true for the newer Narnia movies, but there's also a set of older movies and those ones are amazing. The only thing kind of wrong with them is that they're really old, so they're kind of grainy and also instead of CGI animals they just dressed a bunch of people up in animal costumes and had them do the talking.
@@crocuslament9680 I like the BBC version, but the White Witch shouting everything all the time sure made it weird that Edmund would want to hang out with her.
i was actually a lot like the girl growing up. i had a really big imagination to the point i often felt like i was actually there. this was actually one of my favorite books as a child.
not Terabithia but the fantasy worlds me and my friends would come up with. lol and no I didnt drown or anything bad. people just thought I was weird as a kid, not the I ever once cared.
Running is magical. I remember when I magically collapsed on my bed after the magical mile I ran. With magical sweat dripping down my face. True magic I had, and soreness.
How dare you criticize my childhood. But its so overly dramatic about the swinging because it was seen through Jess's eyes. He had always had no friends and had no one to really be with and have fun with so that moment for him was hella amazing
MrLegendofLP also, she was supposed to look sort of like a boy, but nooooo they couldn’t have included that because they needed a love interest who was like 50 times older than him.
I remember when I was still a kid, my best friend and I would run around outside during recess, pretending to be warriors/mages in an RPG world, fighting imaginary monsters. Those were the good old days, we looked and behaved stupid, but we were kids. We didn't look nearly as stupid as the two kids in this movie tho
This film holds a very special place in my heart. I had a similar story to Jesse's. No friends (I didn't even go to public school, my parents insisted on homeschooling me and my siblings), a family falling apart with my parents separating (and feeling powerless to stop it), remote country life in southern Maryland, financial hardship (I also wore my sister's hand-me-downs!), unhealthy religiosity, budding artistic and creative skills antagonized by a pressure to do "manly" things, and, unbeknownst to me at the time, latent homosexuality. When I saw this film for the first time in theaters, as a vulnerable fourteen-year-old, it made me feel seen. Leslie was the friend I needed then, and as she did for Jesse, the character helped me through the dark time. She inspired me to stay true to my interests and what I wanted to do with my life. Grew up and went to college. After graduating I was hired by Walt Disney Imagineering in Florida, before heading out to California to be a story artist for film and TV. I'm exactly where and who I need to be, and I want to inspire others to do the same. If you happen to be another "Jesse" reading this, to you I say, don't ever give up on your dreams. Don't be afraid to try new things. What is it you want most? The journey of life is excruciating, yes, but the joy you experience along the way is magic. The world can't wait to see what you have to give! ❤
+Nightmaredemon Some scenes are at least a bit facepalmy because they're either corny or overdramatised (e.g. the rope scene, the bullies' totally dull "harrassment" of Jess, and the painting scene). But, it's still a good movie, IMO. These scenes are more bearable if you look at them with less of a critical eye, and think more about what the filmmakers are trying to do with them, or just relax and allow them to entertain you, or just pass you by. Once you get passed teenagehood, you can avoid cringing too much.
Honestly, this movie could've been easily fixed. Make Jess more than just a big dope running after Leslie, and make them both more important to the plot.
isn't the girl in this the same one who played Violet in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory? (not the original Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, the remake Charlie And The Chocolate Factory)
I think this movie would be better if the death of Leslie happened at the beginning and it would focus on Jess coping with the loss of her by building this magical land and he'll start having flashbacks about her
Nah, that would undercut the narrative of the book, which is designed to kick you straight in the balls with a stark and unflinching exploration of mortality.
i watched this movie in elementary school and the only part i remember is "god will damn you to hell" and the entire class of atheists bursting out laughing
Jess had issues that weren’t being addressed because of his four sisters and his parents being concerned about the family finances. He had to share a room with his younger sister and his area was the size of a large closet (not quite walk-in wardrobe size though). On his birthday his father even takes back his present despite nothing really being wrong with it, and he has to wear his sister’s hand me down shoes because they couldn’t afford a replacement pair (and it sounded like Jess was really getting the max mileage out of his old pair). His art was how he expressed himself since no one was willing to express interest in him or his interests until Leslie came along. Terabithia is how Jess can work out his frustrations from the real world and this allows him to build up confidence that clearly shows. It also links into his relationship with his father. As Jess buys more into the fantasy world it annoys his father who doesn’t see it as practical. He lashes out at Jess when things go awry because he isn’t aware his parental favouritism is having a negative reaction on Jess (which also influences Jess’s relationship with his sister, their father’s favorite who Jess has to share a room with). So when Jess doesn’t have someone he can talk to when the one person he did talk to has died, his father realises that he’s been passively emotionally abusive towards Jess and that Jess needs a shoulder to cry on and someone to blub what he hasn’t been able to let out.
I came up with a fan fiction where Jes and Leslie are slightly older heroin addicts from different social classes, kinda like in The Place Beyond the pines..
I have one where it's a horror/fantacy movie, and the teacher is the villan. Leslie must get Jes back from the evil teacher who kidnapped him. Terrabithia actually plays a role in this too, as it is a forign kingdom capturing the king, him getting torchered, and the queen going through a creepy house to find Jes. As she confronts the teacher, there is some cool fighting, and they make it out ok. Then, 10 years later, Leslie's attitude in the reunion scene of the review represents them both. Anyone on for writing the sequal to my fan fiction?
The main problem in the movie seems to be the inconsistencies of trying to modernize the book and sticking to 70s mainstream values, e.g. in the church rules.
@@fishofgold6553 The insults, the free range the children have and the closer connection between children and parents than largely today. Another instance is the teacher connection Jess has, which would raise some eyebrows today.
I remember reading this book when I was a kid. I loved watching the friendship between Jesse and Leslie grow, and was destroyed when Leslie died. It is a timeless classic, and it didn’t shy away from the hard things. It had been the first book like that I had come across, and it left a lasting impact. Thank you, so much, for this book.
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Fun Fact: The author of the original book based Leslie's death on the real-life death of her son's best friend, who was struck by lightning on a beach. It was actually one of the first books written for children to ever tackle such a heavy theme.
...I'm sad now.
Little Loud Wow
Jonathan M.
A) The son's friend.
B) It probably happend in the 70's or before then, so, not soon enough?
How is that a "fun" fact? More of a depressing fact
That's not a Fun Fact. That Fact wasn't Fun at all!
Little Loud wow I bet you she was shocked when that happened
Kids can be so cruel, I remember this one kid telling me to go look under the wheel of my parents car for my younger brother. For context my Brother at a year old was run over in an accident involving my father driving the car...... so yeah... I threw a chair at that one kid.... split his lip, gave him a black eye and broke his nose...
I'm so sorry to hear that I hope the little bastard learned his lesson
That's sick and I am sorry to hear that. I'm glad you gave him a lesson. Maybe he can learn about it before he says something stupid again that gets him killed.
Tammy Haszara good
+Masquerade the bad thing about internet now, is that everyone can say anything they want without consequence, because if you say something bad in the real world, ya gonna get smacked
Francisco Benjamin Ruiz Aravena True.
That poem she was reading was the biggest foreshadowing ever and always flew over my head until now. Holy crap.
Oh my god
***** I know, right?
O holy mother of God, I just realized this thanks to your comment.
holy shit
WAIT WHAT
CAN YOU PLEASE WRITE HERE WHAT SHE WAS SAYING
Principal: we have had several complaints about you kicking off several kids from the bus.
Bus driver: because i am the king of busworld.
Principal: well king you have been overthrown. Welcome to unemployment land.
Principal: Well helloooo Mr. Fancy Pants, I’ve got news for you pal, you ain’t leading but two things: Jack and shit, and Jack left town
“Hey honey how was work” well darling bus world is no more
Aw fuck XD
Or the kid could have just said... I didn't do that.
Was that Soooooo hard to say.
There are wet rags and then there's whatever he is.
I don't see how fantasy land would have given him self esteem.
Maybe boxing lessons... or a job building something.... but running from trolls?
Lmao 🤣
“Wow. We suck even in our own fantasies.”
“I can’t be cool anywhere.”
That dialogue would be infinitely superior.
Kai0fDathomir. I actually read it when he said it. 😄😁😅😂🤣🤣
Yep, story of my life!
its funny to think that the critic is just sitting in his chair doing this crazy stuff without music and clips before editing.
Jayden Staal I'd feel like a loony doing it. I'm always impressed that people pull it off so well.
It is funny to think you actually see him using old clips of him NOT just sitting in his chair...
Except that one scene when he was sitting on his toilet
Okay. That line from the bully after Leslie's death was terrible. Who thought of that?!
Apparently the bully.
WesT That's just evil, why not just give him a black cat and a twirling black mustache "Hah, your friend Lily is dead, all my friends are alive hahmmmm yes"
NOOOOOOOOOOOO THAT JERK
actually, it was in the book. So...The original creator.
Maybe I'm just not in the know but did you use a gif for a profile photo?
To be fair, historically speaking, a king's sister would be a princess.
Princess would be the queen if there was no queen before her serving.
@Casandshail No, she wouldn't.
@Casandshail No, she would be princess and first in line of succession until her brother the king has heirs on his own (assuming there aren't other siblings). Queen Consort is the king's wife.
@Casandshail I get it! Cuz incest!
How would she he queen? If she had a brother, there is obviously a male heir to the throne. Therefore, no queen. "Historically speaking..."
Not sure you know what you are talking about... What history? What country? Example(s)?
“One that we can use a tone of false advertising to trick Narnia fans into seeing.”
So true.
I laughed so hard because that's why I went to see it. I was a huge fantasy geek with LOTR and Narnia (for some examples), so when I saw the adds for this I got excited. I hadn't read the book yet, so when I watched this I definitely was confused, I felt ripped off lol. I liked it better after I read the book
It was exactly what happened to me, its a good movie but I hatred or because I felt ripped off
I was obsessed with fantasy films at the time this came out and when I saw the trailer, I was expecting something like Narnia or Spiderwick Chronicles XD Needless to say, it was an alright movie but definitely a bit of a disappointment
I will not lie I fell for that too. I was expecting ‘Harry Potter-Narnia-Middle Earth’ but, even though it’s still a decent movie, got this ‘life is too short’ movie instead.
Like "I Kill Giants". I was like "So, you lied to me..."
I trained to be a schoolbus driver last year. It is actually illegal to kick a child off the bus en route to their destination. You can ban them from riding the bus for the rest of the school year, but it's not really the bus driver's decision to make. He would need permission from the dispatcher. Also, I really hated that scene. It was really annoying how that child lied about getting tripped and got the other kid kicked off the bus. That's why I'm glad I was homeschooled. Also, you're not supposed to humiliate the student by punishing them in front of all the other students. You're supposed to send them to the front of the bus and punish them privately. The point I'm trying to make is that guy should be fired.
Trainfan1055
All Im thinking is that homeschooling worked out great huh.
Also far from the films only leap in logic.
Realistically if anything had happened to that kid the bus driver would be responsible.
Remember kids: homeschooled=bus driver
Contrary to previous comments, having a career as a bus driver is an ok thing. Not for everyone. But you do what you wanna/gotta do.
Being a bus driver is hard work when you consider you have to deal with the other drivers on the road (at least 50% drive like idiots) and having to deal with the students on the bus (at least 50% act like assholes, no matter their grade) at the same time. If you could throw kids off the bus like in this movie, the bus driver would have thrown over half the students off the bus.
Leslie was into roleplaying before it was cool.
Was roleplaying ever cool?
@@alexeysaranchev6118 only in bed
People have been LARPing for decades
Leslie is dream girl manic pixie
she's be a great Dungeon Master
I think you're missing the point of the animation style.
Before Jess met Leslie, all he did was fantasize. He knew they were just drawings, and was okay with that.
Then he met Leslie, and for a moment, she managed to convince him that fantasy was reality.
videohistory722 Although these things really don’t look all that great on repeat viewings. He’s kinda right on that part. And yeah, it would be really effective if they actually played into their everyday life more, since that’s what the movie was trying to say at times.
I do have to say imagine if in the movie Leslie found/saw Jess' drawings and decided to put them into their imagination world. Then you see the creatures start out as drawings in real life. As Leslie puts more details in it we see, through Jess' point of view, the creatures go from drawings to real life. I think that would have been a better idea.
This never suited him, but he came to terms with it. Then Leslie showed him that it could happen differently, but she used technology for this that was millennia ahead of Earth's. And from the final song it clearly follows that he remained with this opinion.
In my personal opinion, I don't think it was done in the best way. I still enjoy movie, but the fantasy parts just felt super random and thrown out there a lot of the time.
@@salazar556 Because it was done differently. He would have really fallen from the tree with the keys, if not for the reality of the embodied fantasies that caught him in the air near the ground. Therefore, no convincing just for a moment was supposed here, and Leslie convinced him forever. You write fantasy parts, but the thing is that this is a single canvas, and there are no divisions into parts in it. Leslie immediately overtakes everyone in the race, and while she has reading her essay, Jess sees bubbles, but thinks that his imagination played out with a psychological, as he believes, phenomenon of an invisible friend. When they climb the tree to look out over Terabithia, gravity is seen to be weakening. In the church, Leslie receives a beam, which then points them to the keys. The troll that caught Jess when he fell is hung with keys. While Jess is next to Leslie, the rope does not break. After she leaves, he and his sister walk along, the same unsafe as that rope, bridge, when he realizes that Leslie herself broke the rope so as not to puzzle the police and before that she held the rope intact with magic. And he realized that she would hold the bridge in the same way.
I got hit by a car last week, and it turns out God doesn't actually damn you to hell when you die. He just sends you to Bus World.
It's not terribly interesting, but at least they have internet access.
Do they have free Netflix? If so, sign me up.
Busworld goddammit!
Masterxl MVs that was the best thing ive read today
ok this is really funny
@@trentos I'm more of an HBO guy.
I'm surprised you didn't make a gum joke about Anna Sophia Rob because she's the girl who's gum obsessed in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.
Pattyrick55 good point.
LOL 😂 IKR
Yeah. Stick to Juicy Fruit gum (pun not intended), because it doesn't TURN you into fruit.
Look like she didn't have the right gum to eat to float up and not did
Pattyrick55 holy shit that was her??
Imagine Leslie as a Dungeon Master. Just imagine.
Alright Terribithians, let us dive into our adventure!
-Uh, Leslie, please tell me this is gonna be a normal one?
A troll of 1 thousand fires attacks!
-Oh Christ.
How can a corpse DM a game?
Spider-Gwen before her death
Star
* slow clap * you right you right
Bulk Bogan
“You broke the magic rope”
( get it because that’s how they died I’ll leave)
I actually really loved this movie, yes, it gets a bit wimsy. But remember Leslie was dealing with moving and not having real friends until Jess. And speaking of Jess, he was being bullied and was being looked over by his parents until Leslie died. And when they weren't overlooking him (especially his dad) they were asking a lot of him, his younger sister taking up a lot of the attention when all Jess wants is approval. Which makes it more impactful when he and his dad had the moment in the woods and Jess sought forgiveness from his sister. Over all it seemed like Jess's imagination was being squashed from multiple angles and Leslie was fueling both there imaginations to help Jess as well as help him, dispite them never directly addressing Jess's problems completely.
@Brandon Brooks well it’s disney so it wouldn’t be by default anyway
@@lilithjade4363 it was actually screenwritten by the son of the author, who the book is based on, so i would argue it still holds up as it’s own. My opinion but I greatly prefer the movie.
@@birbwho "the son of the author" means nothing. hes a different person.
The book was beautiful but this movie feel unnecessary
@Nightmare1398 The book did go more in detail of certain events the movie is still one of the best adaptations
Death Rope
I think its just called a Noose
EpicsBroFlame... talk about some dark humor.
Slipknot
I never watched this movie but I dead-ass always thought that was Dakota Fanning. And, upon looking up this actress's wiki page, I'm realizing that every movie that I thought starred Fanning (Because of Winn-Dixie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Race to Witch Mountain, etc.) actually starred her. My whole life has been a lie.
Captain Con Queso am I the only high schooler who doesn’t like using dead-ass.
you dead-ass are
My God, I just realized she was the girl from Charlie and the Chocolate factory
Didn’t Dakota Fanning voice Coraline in ‘Coraline’
That’s not her??
Don't forget that other little bit of foreshadowing with her poem seeing as she drowned in that creek.
Googleplier oh my god I never realized
Googleplier I noticed that
I realised at the start of the video and then forgot
Googleplier omg wow
O_o
She gives everyone a piece of gum! I wonder why she was Violet Beauregarde in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Coincidence? I think not.
Omg i didn't notice that
That's gotta be a reference
I thought she looked familiar.
@Diana Perez yep. two years before
@@havinnazl6621 thanks captain
Not gonna lie, I cried when you showed the clip of Jess hugging His father crying.
I'm sensitive
Kiersten Simpson same
Honest to god same
Ethan Thompson omg lol
Haven't seen the movie in a long time, but that's probably the best part.
JonDoesGaming yeah i mean i watched it again last weekend and realize how much of a crazy twist in tone the movie took and the great lesson it taught to a generation
70s-90s bullies are weird....
Growing up in the late 2000s and now,
I WANT THESE BULLIES BACK!
At least they were not talking about weird sexual stuff.
Bullies are weird, regardless of what era you grew up in
@@warrenlehmkuhleii8472 Not to mention back then you could actually dole out beatings outside of school to said bullies.
@@BrokensoulRider Good point. Nowadays teachers punish the kids who fight back. Happened to my little cousin not so long ago.
@@isexuallyidentifyasukraini5407 That's why you make sure you threaten lawyers. They'll listen to the side that has lawyers. Especially in the event that someone ends up killing themselves because of bullies.
"Beep, beep, beep, beep. You know what that is? My loser detector."
Well it must be going off pretty often when you're by yourself. Also that's the stupidest insult I've ever heard.
I know, right! Besides, gaydar is the obvious insult here
+IrishStar oh hey its u again
Still doesn't beat "Hey, assbutt!"
If some kid said that to me, I might die of laughter.
Buddy Duarte BUS WORLD
Believe it or not, in the book, the way they tell Jess Leslie's dead is for one of his sisters to say straight out "Your girlfriend's dead and Momma thought you were dead too."
I think that's what made the revelation even more shocking
This was legit the first movie to ever break my heart... Really doesn't hold up the same after 12 years
Lilly Bean same it doesn't hold up now Because we know how outdated it was to begin with
My first was iron giant
kameron hall ya that was great and that still holds up
Lilly Bean same
That's how the book affected me. The movie didn't seem to catch as much of that feeling... but maybe that's because I read it at about age ten.
Look my best friend’s dead and my teacher’s hitting on me. I don’t know what’s normal anymore ! 😂
Omg
"STOP!!! You are making Full House look like a Holocaust drama!!!"
-Nostalgia Critic
"Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus" sounds like a torture device named by GLaDOS...
Remember THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!!!
Or just
SCUBA
*angry Jaques Custeu noises*
I mean yeah
@@wardedthorn6523 I'm glad someone's intelligent here.
One point I think Critic misses about the “overly-whimsical” scenes is that they’re trying to highlight beauty where people normally don’t notice it.
The other month I was at the museum Bodyworlds-The Happiness Project in Amsterdam. One of the things they had was two simple swings. Nothing fancy about them, just invited people to use them if they wanted. I read into this a little deeper.
By using the swing, you gain a feel of excitement in your stomach, you’re more aware of the air around you, and you can feel that little more alive.
I think they are telling the same story with that rope swing. The film is trying to highlight that there is beauty all around, but people are generally too occupied to see that beauty
Plus it’s just kids being kids
Just like the dude in American Beauty who loves the video of a plastic bag…oh wait that was stupid then and it’s stupid now. Not every normal thing is whimsical
Doug sure hates when a movie isn’t constantly being mean spirited to its characters and trying to make the audience depressed because it’s realistic
“Running is magical”
It’s magical alright.
It’s magical how fast it makes me want to die.
I feel that
she died whimisically.
8:30 yeah that about how
*Death seems... Whimsical today*
Lol, that's the best! XD
It's the whimsy music except its muffled by water
Death by misadventure
It may not have aged well, but this movie has a special place in my heart and my childhood.
Yeah don't let bitter nostalgia critic ruin something wholesome and Good
@@misterbobby8913 seriously this was one of the only movies that addressed/helped me deal with real grief as a child.
@@lilithjade4363 Word, Facts. This movie is Objectively Beautiful.
True
16:55
When I was a kid, I spent lots of time with my preschool teacher and all we did was bake cookies. I'm still friends with her to this day.
so you're dating her?
That's sounds awesome.
That's really nice
Ya bang
denial?
The Disney princess revenge planning was hilarious!
Yeah, I never knew Ariel with a gun could be something I needed to see in my life yet when it happened I had to replay it and laugh again.
Masquerade Me neither. That was awesome.
David Cappadoccia Yeah.
David Cappadoccia 935 ftw!! Edward's Walnut Delivery!
And in the end, it looks like the princesses won
Hey! Remember that main character who brought nothing but joy and happiness to everyone?
Well we killed her off screen!
Liggity Split Cry for Justice?
Juhani Aho
Poor lian harper.
At least she came back in DC rebirth.
Joy and happiness
yeah no
Heeheee
Yeah we definitely wanted to see one of the main characters hit there head and struggle to breath as they drown to death.
What were they thinking I miss leslie. 😭😭😭
3:17 *I mean, when’s the last time you heard someone say “Dead Meat”?*
All the time now, thanks to James A Janise.
Heisenkirk 2000 same man!took the word right out of my mouth
You know? now that I think about it this movie reminds me a lot of those indie films where a guy hangs out with a "manic pixie dream-girl"
it pains me to admit it, but i find myself liking such trite in cinema. paper towns and garden state are good examples.
locke103 I ducking hate films like that. It’s just too plain and obvious to me, you know, they’re always thinking of something and are always right. Because "they can be anything they want".
God... even watching a comedic review of this movie still makes me cry. The first time I saw that movie, the scene where they said she had died really came as a punch in the stomach. I just can't brace myself for it, it always hits me right in the feels.
Heck, there are still tears rolling down my cheeks as I write this...
Then you definitely don't want to watch the original. It was way more serious and sad.
Stephen Wagner There's an original? Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
***** all dem feels T^T
Same here
Shiny Sneasel There are two kinds of people
"We can kill them younger, can't we?"
This right there actually made me spit out my drink in laughter, bless you, Critic.
When the Critic flipped out over the, “fastest kid in the class now,” is absolutely hilarious. 25:22
"There's ya, and then there's nah, and that was NAH"
“He did not! He did not!”
Well...
At least there will be no disturbing reunions...
Wp
Nopers r/cursedcomments
25:54
For a really sad film about death. My god, this is one of the funniest Nostalgia Critic videos 😂
BUS WORLD!
Wastelands Nomad TERABITHIA GOD DAMN IT!!!!
"What do I need them for? I AM the Barbie!"
It just made Wednesday morbid.
I loved the contrast in this movie. Apart from when I broke off at the end. I loved how it was all happy and cringy and whimsical, and just darn right stupid and inconsequential.
I thought it was going to be about Leslie being annoyed that he had a crush on the teacher or some dumb Disney shit like that. But no. The movie catches you off guard.
Leslie died. It did it so well. When he walked through the woods, it was the exact same path/track just, Leslie wasn’t there. It was also so silent and empty feeling.
This really got me as I was just sitting there like “where’s Leslie?” This movie managed to hit me with this wall off unexpected realism that I had never experienced before. You see your hit with Leslie’s death, but you don’t accept it. You expect, since it’s a Disney movie, and due to the inconsequential tone set up before. That maybe Leslie’s still out there. Maybe. Just maybe some weird magical shit will happen.
I found my self begging that she would have been there when he went walking. It was only when he was walking his sister down to the magical place. That the realisation hit. Leslie, wasn’t there anymore. Not tagging along behind, or talking to him. She was gone. She left her world, and terebithia behind.
This movie is the first time in anything where I have refused to get over a characters death.
This movie put me in the shoes of the protagonist, unlike any other.
Doopy Doody fucking agree man. Tru words
I felt the same until the girl started getting creepy with her comments. I started thinking "...does her dad molests her or something?...is this where they are going?"
>it was all happy and cringy and whimsical
"Whimsical digestion", Critic called it. Which is dumb because it has absolutely nothing to do with digestion. Think about it. That look the Critic described. It's trying to create a notion of enchantment, of whimsy. But it fails. It's...Flimsy whimsy. It's flimsical!
That's exactly how I felt
I think it's the second kids movie that makes me cry, after a Thai movie about a kid and an elephant
Regardless of how the film is, the theme is absolutely incredible imo. It just fills me with emotion every time I hear it.
This movie was the theatrical equivalent of blueballs for me, it was spot on with tricking Narnia fans.
Grapple Agreed.
Too bad, because I didn't even know this movie even existed at the time. I was too bust waiting for the next Narnia movie to release.
I hated this shit, it was the first time I was falsely advertised to
25:40 why did Critic become Gru from Despicable me?
Because he hates this movie as much as I do
There is yuo, and there is nuo, and that was *NUO!*
@@haihai9022 actually because of what that kid said
I like this critic better
Well, he always kinda sounded like Steve Carell
This was one of the saddest movies I ever watched as a kid. One of the first ones where i genuinely remember being very sad.
The first film that I remember leading to genuinely feeling sad was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, after Cedric dies and his father wails over his dead body. I had to hold back the tears until the movie was over. Then, far more recently, there was this movie, which had even more of an effect. I've been thinking about it constantly for well over a month.
Free willy anyone?
@@fishofgold6553That scene is greatly acted.
Fun fact: the guy who directed this movie is one of the co-creators of Rugrats (No, really. Look it up.)
Gabor Csupo!
Now that's a *S M A S H I N G* fact
I know
As long as he isn't a co-creator of Tugrats
Huh
having leslie writing about being underwater is...kinda dark
Yeah it is.......😐😒
Alright, fine. Looking back on it, this is an incredibly flawed film. But goddamn if it wasn't part of my childhood, and I still love it.
The Cat in The Hat (the disturbing live action one, that is) and Norm of the North were part of my childhood. For the first several years of my life, I couldn't afford to have cinematic standards.
To be fair, you can probably find fault with every single movie in existence if you look for it hard enough. All that really matters is that we have fun watching them. Because if we're enjoying ourselves, we can forgive pretty much anything.
I think "incredibly flawed" is an exaggeration. That would mean it is a *terrible* film, which it isn't. If you watch this video again, you'll find that many of the things that the NC points out are either not things he necessarily says are 'flaws', or are just instances of him nitpicking for humorous effect. One thing he points out is that the world portrayed in the film is too whisical and perfect, and while I agree partly, he completely forgets things like Jesse's fathers criticism of and lack of affection for him, and even if he did mention it, I can still see him criticising it for being an inadequate attempt to make the film more gritty, which is exactly what he wanted anyway. Plus, straight after the painting scene at the Burkes' house, Jess comes home, and you can see his facial expression suddenly change as he realises he now has to come back to reality for the rest of the day and face his unnaffectionate, tense family life. This film is a bit too innocent, but not by much, and while it isn't *deep*, it certainly isn't shallow.
Assailant and there is nothing wrong with that. I still love Tarzan and Hercules, eventhough they are flawed, because they were my favorite movies growing up.
This movie is still awesome shut up
Who else wants to see a horror sequel to this where Jess is haunted by Leslie's ghost? Just imagine it: She could make him see Terabithia at times when he shouldn't be, like in school!
+SilverHairedFreak25 That.. would be amazing
+SilverHairedFreak25 It truly is his Silent Hill.
Get Disney to do it, they need more scary horror movies.
+2 bros and 1up What if Jess is been dead the whole time and he's actually in purgatory, that Leslie is actually his '"otherself" that he made up as an alternate ego and wished he wanted to be like because she's a representation of him when when he was alive on Earth (including everything that happened to him when he was alive) and his death because she died the exact same way he died (the rope, getting hit horribly by a branch, and drowning), also Terabithia and the Bridge represent a place that he wished to escaped and live in back when he was alive, and all the positive turnarounds in the movie you see is what he wished had of done to fix when he was still alive, but the thing is he doesn't know he's dead and he's thinks this is actual reality or possibly a dream.
+SilverHairedFreak25 It never ENDS!!!!!! it never ENDS!!!!!! IT NEVER FUCKING ENDS!!!!!!!
I love how Jess and Leslie can somehow see the exact same thing when they’re fantasizing
we see what jess sees
We don’t really know what Leslie seeing because we aren’t looking from her pov but she’s helping and telling Jess to imagine it and that’s what we’re seeing. So they’re basically imagining the same thing
I mean she’s describing what she’s seeing to him, so it’s reasonable to assume
Dude i thought it was too cruel for the bully to mock him after the girls death, I wouldn't put it past some douche bag but if i remember in the original the bully actually showed remorse and sympathy.
It was totally worth it. It's the best line in the movie. It even partly compensates for the utterly pathetic 'insults' he uses earlier.
That's kids for ya. And it was just like that in the book
Kids did that to my dad when his grandpa died, and the same thing to me when my grandmother died. Kids are cruel.
By the way, I recently watched the 1985 (TV) film version, and I can tell that in neither that version nor in the novel do any of the bullies show sympathy for Jesse. The only sympathy shown to him is an implied conversation initiated by Janice Avery in the 2007 film version.
By the way, I recently watched the 1985 (TV) film version, and I can tell that in neither that version nor in the novel do any of the bullies show sympathy for Jesse. The only sympathy shown to him is an implied conversation initiated by Janice Avery in the 2007 film version.
my grandpa was in the free to pee movement
My grandpa founded UGC. It's a privilege to pee.
urinetown anyone
My great-granddad fought in the great piss war 23, won to
Shanethefilmmaker, all of it
Agreed
I currently watched the movie again and I picked up on some very interesting things, first if you look at the fantasies as what they could symbolize or what is exactly happening, it becomes a lot more interesting. For example, the scene where Jess falls from the tree getting his dad's keys, it may seem out of nowhere there being a troll that catches him with the bully's face. But what I think actually happened is that the bully just so happened to be walking when she saw Jess fall and she caught him, and Jess and Leslie having their overactive imaginations, and the fact that to kids their age 8th graders do look like these tall, big threats they perceived her being this giant troll. So, for the issues of the fantasies, I say that we the audience are looking purely at the world through Jess and Leslie's eye, whimsy and all :)
Yes, several Terabithian creatures are meant to represent the bullies ('Squogers'= Scott Hoager and 'Hairy Vultures' = Gary Fulcher). I noticed that they are meant to parallel the difficult people Jess and Leslie face in their daily lives, but this is done only VERY superficially. It looks like the filmmakers decided to just throw in the minor detail of the squogers saying, "Beep, beep, beep," and the hairy vultures saying, "Dead meat," as a tepid attempt at symbolism just for the sake of throwing a bone to the audience. This shows a lack of imagination on their part.
This brings me to one the main complaints I have about this film: the Terabithian fantasy scenes are too literal-minded. There is a disconnect between Jesse and Leslie's fantasy and their real lives. The audience might be left wondering what's going on in Terabithia. Are these monsters real? No, because Terabithia is merely imaginary. But, then, how does everything in Terabithia seem so real? How do the creatures interact physcially with the characters? That's what you'd expect if Terabithia was actually real, like Narnia is in The Chronicles of Narnia. But Terabithia is not real, and we know it, which kills the suspence of these action scenes.
It would have been better if this expressly imaginary world was presented as just that: imaginary. Instead of being used for action alone, the Terabithian scenes could have been used to deepen the story, while still maintaining an air of fantasy. Jesse could be drawing fantastical beasts on his drawing pad, while imagining them in ever more and more detail in front of him in Terabithia, as if projecting them with his mind; Jess and Leslie could race each other 2 or 3 times, using an imaginary monster chasing after them as motivation to run as fast as possible; Leslie could tell him stories (as she does in the novel) while Jess visualises them, and these stories could have been parables or fables that parallel the difficulties the two of them face in life, or their friendship; some of the creatures could have more than superficially represented real-life characters, with Jess and Leslie having conversations with (or at least about) them, as Nostalgia Critic suggest in the scene with the giant; and there could have even perhaps been a mock swordfight scene between Jess and Leslie, with fantasy-style armour and weapons and a foreshadowing of Leslie's death.
Despite all this, I think it is overall a very good film, mostly because the tragedy in it is so evocatively portrayed. This film was a before-and-after for me. It brought me to tears. I'm still thinking about it more than a month later. It has a couple of moderately significant flaws, but even these are partly redeemed by its potent portrayal of friendship and loss.
@@fishofgold6553 The thing is that the book was written by a mother, and the script was written by her son. The film is closer to the real events on which the story is based. Based on the book, you are sure that Terabithia is a fiction, as his mother was sure. But the son was not sure of this and remained in this opinion.
This girl could play Alita back in the days :D
Same thought!
Shiiiiii you right
The eyes wouldn't even need to be made bigger!
I swear she looks different in every scene
Is it weird that I misread that as “this girl could play Attila”?
The Outsiders was a good example of what you were saying at the end.
PetShark Studios I remember that book! We read along with an audiobook of it, which made me mad because I mm really good at reading books with emotion and energy.
#NothingGoldCanStayBestPoem
I love the Outsiders, but I didn't find it did exactly what Nostalgia Critic said at the end. Because it wasn't kids being kids-- it was poor kids in a gang dealing with violent shit. You did identify with them and they acted real, but there was a lot of violence that made the death of a main character something that wouldn't have been like just the death of an innocent child who just has an accident doing kid stuff like this movie wanted to portray. Johnny was the most "innocent" one in the gang and all, but he did kill another boy. The kids felt like real kids in a bad situation, but they were kids reacting to violence with violence in a violent situation. It was touching, it caused sympathy and empathy, but the characters were never just kids doing normal kid stuff.
Shadow Bunny I'm reading that book rn omg
I've read the book and watched the movie and...
It was amazing. I never thought I could actually sympathize with basically Gangsters.
If Zoey Deschanel was my teacher, i'd bet hot for teacher too, dont lie you would too.
No
Yeah your right...
No comment
True
Eh, she's cute enough, I guess
It took me longer than I care to admit to realising the poem was foreshadowing her death
To be fair I haven't watched this since I was in primary school reading the book alongside. Which was slightly more engaging, but not too much better
I didn't realize that until just now
just realised cheers
26:30 Okay first of all, being a princess does not "make" you anyone's daughter, it's the other way round, being the king or queen's daughter will make you a princess.
But more to the point, a princess can also be the king or queen's sister, George VI's sister was Princess Mary, and the current queen's sister was Princess Margaret.
The only way a woman in royalty can be queen is if she's either the heir to the thrown or married to the king.
...
*Sweet home alabama*
*_Where the skies are so blue_*
Even being married to the King doesn't make you a true Queen
In the middle of the review, youtube played their own Juicy Fruit gum ad, lol!
DancingAT wow lol
The scene of the Critic whimsically taking a dump on the toilet was one of the funniest things I've seen him do!
It is literally hilarious as hell
What? It was cringy as fuck
When Disney makes a live action hunchback of note dam remake, I want that little girl as Frollo
*high-pitched voice*
Like fire
Hellfire
God will damn you to hell
🏰💫 nah nah nah nah nah
She can be Elsa maybe?
You can definitely tell this was supposed to take place in the 70s
I want a movie about Bus World™.
Bridge to Bus World.....BUSWORLD GODDAMNIT!!!!!
And the way the main character dies is tripping on the stairs to the bus
Bus Man vs the Subway Chums
God damns you to the bus!
I feel like "bus world" could have become one of this shows memes if it was introduced in the early years
"girls can't wear pants?"
well for one thing, in the book, I vaguely recall that she was more a "tomboy" as he would describe her. And I don't know how churches were at the time, but yeah He was surprised about her actually wearing a dress in the book. In the movie, yeah she wears pants all the time.. but she has pink colors, cute clothes, it doesn't seem as "tomboy" to us as the main character in the book. I should really re-read the book since i was 12 the last time i read it.
Victini my mom read to my brother for school... she was crying more then my brother when Leslie died
In the 70's it's likely "tomboy" meant "never wears dresses", but who knows, I wasn't around in the 70's.
Victini in the book he was confused if she was even a girl!
Victini also, your profile kind of says that you are under twelve.
because she want really a tomboy, so OP is writing it between quotes as in how she truly wasnt but other people thought she was just for wearing pants ;)
To be completely fair, my band teacher took me to the zoo (this was in 2009)
I was "the poor kid" and so is this character. Maybe it's an art teacher's way of keeping culture alive 😁
If I find the 70 people who disliked this review
They're DEAD MEAT
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Well make sure you evolve the ability to walk and survive on land first Mr shark.
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Yeah when I saw this movie as a kid I felt upset. I thought it'd be like Narnia and I didn't get a chance to see Narnia so I was really excited. Sigh.... 😢
You dodged a bullet. The Narnia movies went from good to meh to why are you even naming them after the books anymore.
Edit: That's true for the newer Narnia movies, but there's also a set of older movies and those ones are amazing. The only thing kind of wrong with them is that they're really old, so they're kind of grainy and also instead of CGI animals they just dressed a bunch of people up in animal costumes and had them do the talking.
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I like the BBC version, but the White Witch shouting everything all the time sure made it weird that Edmund would want to hang out with her.
10:36 "Also I have an idea for a young-adult series that rips off Battle Royale!"
HOW THE FUCK DID I MISS THAT JOKE! IT'S TOO FUNNY! OH MY GOD!
Bridge to Terabithia:
*The movie you watched when you were 9 looking for fantasy only to find deppression.*
Double feature with The Neverending Story.
Im pretty sure I saw in the map in Narnia show terabithia as an island... Probably has like no connections.
Lucas Edwards ...
Tucker Nelson Copyright.
actually in the book, Leslie is heavily inspired by Narnia's books and give them to Jess , and so yes, Terabithia comes from the Terebinthia Island.
Gregor's Evil Twin it would be fucking amazing if two fantasy authors managed to connect their worlds in secret and make it a big reveal.
lol I remember
This is one of his most hilarious vids but somehow one of the less popular ones.
Kleo3392 Yeah. His review on Sharkboy and Lavagirl is really funny too. I suggest you check it out. 😂
It was one of his most popular ones on his old channel (league of supercritics). I guess with time...
The Cat in the Hat is probably his most viewed
Kleo3392
My favorite one is his 2015 Jem and The Holograms video. The smartphone and "not actually singing" jokes kill me every time.
It is a bad review of a good movie.
i was actually a lot like the girl growing up. i had a really big imagination to the point i often felt like i was actually there. this was actually one of my favorite books as a child.
not Terabithia but the fantasy worlds me and my friends would come up with. lol and no I didnt drown or anything bad. people just thought I was weird as a kid, not the I ever once cared.
Running is magical. I remember when I magically collapsed on my bed after the magical mile I ran. With magical sweat dripping down my face. True magic I had, and soreness.
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I can't believe it...she's a tiny manic pixie dream trope
"DONT MAKE HIM GET OUT HIS CAKE DECORATING KIT!"
How dare you criticize my childhood.
But its so overly dramatic about the swinging because it was seen through Jess's eyes. He had always had no friends and had no one to really be with and have fun with so that moment for him was hella amazing
Leslie looks like if Luna Lovegood had a love child with Chloe Price from "Life Is Strange." And not in a good way.
MrLegendofLP she looks like Joel's daughter from The Last of Us to me and it's weird 😂
MrLegendofLP also, she was supposed to look sort of like a boy, but nooooo they couldn’t have included that because they needed a love interest who was like 50 times older than him.
I remember when I was still a kid, my best friend and I would run around outside during recess, pretending to be warriors/mages in an RPG world, fighting imaginary monsters. Those were the good old days, we looked and behaved stupid, but we were kids. We didn't look nearly as stupid as the two kids in this movie tho
I enjoy being older, but there are those moments when I miss being young like that! my imagination was crazy!
+Achillez And frankly playing fantasy heroes is still more enjoyable than this crappy movie
plus I remember as a kid we would make neat costumes and props to make it more fun also meanwhile the kids in the movie don't do that
Who?
I don't know who they are
I always thought the teacher was Katy Perry smh
OMG same I thought I was the only one
Cant blame you
This film holds a very special place in my heart. I had a similar story to Jesse's. No friends (I didn't even go to public school, my parents insisted on homeschooling me and my siblings), a family falling apart with my parents separating (and feeling powerless to stop it), remote country life in southern Maryland, financial hardship (I also wore my sister's hand-me-downs!), unhealthy religiosity, budding artistic and creative skills antagonized by a pressure to do "manly" things, and, unbeknownst to me at the time, latent homosexuality. When I saw this film for the first time in theaters, as a vulnerable fourteen-year-old, it made me feel seen.
Leslie was the friend I needed then, and as she did for Jesse, the character helped me through the dark time. She inspired me to stay true to my interests and what I wanted to do with my life.
Grew up and went to college. After graduating I was hired by Walt Disney Imagineering in Florida, before heading out to California to be a story artist for film and TV. I'm exactly where and who I need to be, and I want to inspire others to do the same.
If you happen to be another "Jesse" reading this, to you I say, don't ever give up on your dreams. Don't be afraid to try new things. What is it you want most? The journey of life is excruciating, yes, but the joy you experience along the way is magic. The world can't wait to see what you have to give! ❤
Thanks dude, and have a fantastic spring.
That was beautiful man. Almost made me tear up 😢
Some time ago I've liked that because of AnnaSophia, but now it just makes me facepalm so much.
why?
+Nightmaredemon Some scenes are at least a bit facepalmy because they're either corny or overdramatised (e.g. the rope scene, the bullies' totally dull "harrassment" of Jess, and the painting scene). But, it's still a good movie, IMO. These scenes are more bearable if you look at them with less of a critical eye, and think more about what the filmmakers are trying to do with them, or just relax and allow them to entertain you, or just pass you by. Once you get passed teenagehood, you can avoid cringing too much.
*intense high school flashbacks at the name annasophia*
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Liaminator "soon the world was fighting against the evil commupiss"
Kinda like the musical "Urinetown" :P
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Liaminator Welcome to the Urination.
Get it?
well despicable me 3 is coming out soon
Honestly, this movie could've been easily fixed. Make Jess more than just a big dope running after Leslie, and make them both more important to the plot.
"Dead meat" is also the phrase the vultures quawk.
And the scrogers or squirrel things say 'beep beep beep beep..." like the other bully did
isn't the girl in this the same one who played Violet in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory? (not the original Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, the remake Charlie And The Chocolate Factory)
PataponCreeper And turned into a blueberry
PataponCreeper there's a remake???
yes
Am I the only one who liked Charlie and the chocolate factory (2005)
nope, I like both Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, you're not alone Jrad Heisenkirk
I think this movie would be better if the death of Leslie happened at the beginning and it would focus on Jess coping with the loss of her by building this magical land and he'll start having flashbacks about her
And various other things to help him remember her
Ryder R Well, taking on account what 13 Reasons Why did, it might not have been that hard
that'd be a better movie plot
well, I want to see this movie now. Better find someone to pay you for this idea so you can make it.
Nah, that would undercut the narrative of the book, which is designed to kick you straight in the balls with a stark and unflinching exploration of mortality.
Fact: Typing "idiot with bad timing .com" (sans the spaces) into the url takes you to the Channel Awesome website.
LMAOOO
Can't deny that Leslie's death really does hit like a ton of bricks.
There’s a word I like to use for Leslie. Schizophrenic.
LemmeHitThat MinecraftTop10 or maybe imaginative?
Or on drugs, mentally crazy or it can be both
@CogentPhilosopher damn.
@CogentPhilosopher what?
@CogentPhilosopher oh, that. Yeah I've been thinking of revamping the channel but I just don't have the time.
i watched this movie in elementary school and the only part i remember is "god will damn you to hell" and the entire class of atheists bursting out laughing
Top kek
+Shemh3 I spent three days thinking of mine.
I would have been laughing
You had an entire class of atheists? What kind of school did you go to and where can I find it?
hah
When I first watched this movie I cried
I cried the first time I saw this movie too
Jess had issues that weren’t being addressed because of his four sisters and his parents being concerned about the family finances. He had to share a room with his younger sister and his area was the size of a large closet (not quite walk-in wardrobe size though). On his birthday his father even takes back his present despite nothing really being wrong with it, and he has to wear his sister’s hand me down shoes because they couldn’t afford a replacement pair (and it sounded like Jess was really getting the max mileage out of his old pair). His art was how he expressed himself since no one was willing to express interest in him or his interests until Leslie came along. Terabithia is how Jess can work out his frustrations from the real world and this allows him to build up confidence that clearly shows.
It also links into his relationship with his father. As Jess buys more into the fantasy world it annoys his father who doesn’t see it as practical. He lashes out at Jess when things go awry because he isn’t aware his parental favouritism is having a negative reaction on Jess (which also influences Jess’s relationship with his sister, their father’s favorite who Jess has to share a room with). So when Jess doesn’t have someone he can talk to when the one person he did talk to has died, his father realises that he’s been passively emotionally abusive towards Jess and that Jess needs a shoulder to cry on and someone to blub what he hasn’t been able to let out.
"I don't think God damns people to hell. He's too busy doing this! (Gesturing to the world)"
Says every non-Bible reading Christian ever.
I came up with a fan fiction where Jes and Leslie are slightly older heroin addicts from different social classes, kinda like in The Place Beyond the pines..
I have one where it's a horror/fantacy movie, and the teacher is the villan. Leslie must get Jes back from the evil teacher who kidnapped him. Terrabithia actually plays a role in this too, as it is a forign kingdom capturing the king, him getting torchered, and the queen going through a creepy house to find Jes. As she confronts the teacher, there is some cool fighting, and they make it out ok. Then, 10 years later, Leslie's attitude in the reunion scene of the review represents them both. Anyone on for writing the sequal to my fan fiction?
+rollercoasterfan2000 There goes my childhood...
This sounds AWESOME. What's it's name?
gee the first fan fiction that came up was a Rated M Jeslie very dirty
+rollercoasterfan2000 send me a link, please.
The main problem in the movie seems to be the inconsistencies of trying to modernize the book and sticking to 70s mainstream values, e.g. in the church rules.
How is that the main problem? It shows up literally only once.
@@fishofgold6553 The insults, the free range the children have and the closer connection between children and parents than largely today. Another instance is the teacher connection Jess has, which would raise some eyebrows today.
I remember reading this book when I was a kid. I loved watching the friendship between Jesse and Leslie grow, and was destroyed when Leslie died. It is a timeless classic, and it didn’t shy away from the hard things. It had been the first book like that I had come across, and it left a lasting impact. Thank you, so much, for this book.