The Secret Garden

I like the steampunk variation idea. I like clean fun family entertainment. I love the original book. The set was fine. But, I've seen middle school plays with better acting and costuming.

-The characters were one dimensional and the lines terribly delivered. For example: the doctor glared whenever he was on and delivered all his lines in the same tone.

-Colin crying? The whole family laughed outloud at what should have been a troubling scene. No emotion evoked in the entire movie.

-Mary and Dicken do tolerably, but no one else can act at all.

• Martha's hair? What?

-The creepy doll? Creepy.

-The neglectful father? What a stupid character.

Horrible acting, questionable plot changes. Using steampunk as a new setting is a great idea but dreadfully executed.

Possibly the worst thing I've done to my eyes in the past few months

It's a steam-punk futurism adaptation of the classic Frances Hodgson Burnett novel. Mary Lennox arrives at her uncle's Misselthwaite Factory. She befriends siblings Martha Sowerby and Dickon Sowerby. She finds a secret workshop which is referred to as The Secret Garden.

At least, they are trying for something interesting. The failure is still painful to watch. The sets look like leftovers from a second hand store. Some of the actors are struggling. At some point, one can see them rambling on with their lines as if they're just going through the motion. Somebody probably got the original idea but the budget was never there to fulfil it.

Being a big fan of the original I hadn't expected much from this remake. But it really was awful. Low budget with terrible acting, it lacks any emotion or excitement. Wish I hadn't wasted an hour and a half of my evening.

The whole steampunk theme wasn't the best, but it wasn't the worst either. The acting was horrible. I could hardly tolerate it. Don't waste your money on it.