Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Good movie but grossly overrated

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Anne of Green Gables is directed by Kevin Sullivan, is based on the series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery and stars Megan Follows, Jonathan Crombie, Schuyler Grant, Richard Farnsworth and Colleen Dewhurst.Young red haired orphan Anne Shirley (Megan Follows), is adopted by elderly brother and sister Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert(Colleen Dewhurst and Richard Farnsworth). The Cuthbert's had originally wanted a boy so he could help them on the farm. As they spend more time with Anne, they both grow to love her and decide that they want to adopt her.The film chronicles Anne's life with the Cuthbert's, her friendship with Diana Barry(Schuyler Grant) and her relationship with Gilbert Blyth(Jonathan Crombie)who is the man she is destined to be with.Megan is superb in the lead role and captures how much this girl want's to be loved and accepted. The entire cast are superb and the film is funny and moving in equal measure.

I simply love this movie. I first saw it with my mother when I was about 8 or 9, and we both fell in love. Kevin Sullivan takes such care into recreating Avonlea. He's created a whole majestic universe, and you feel like you are a member. When a character has done something good and people in the movie applaud, you feel like applauding with them. I have resisted many times the urge to cry, laugh, and cheer while watching this movie. The actors are fantastic. Megan Follows is brilliant, and she really embodies what Anne is all about. Jonathan Crombie as Gilbert is also amazing. I can watch this movie over and over again. I also like that it stays very true to the novel, with little differences here and there to make it more dramatic and make it flow easily, but it doesn't feel butchered. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone.

Well, I was 14 when I first saw Anne of Green Gables on the PBS channel for a pledge drive. I didn't read the books or anything. I asked my mom if she has seen it and she told me it was stupid and she didn't like it at all, but in spite of her dislike I watched it. It's a tale that just about every girl can relate to...trying to fit in, being competitive/defying everyone, having that one bestest best friend forever and girls that are most certainly not, new dresses, handsome school boys, or prospects of graduating and going off to college or work. This movie isn't for every one though...Anne can be a little too imaginative for some people (like my mom), but she can also be insightful and help young girls discover themselves as "kindred spirits."

This mini-series is an excellent example of how television should be. The acting is first rate starring Canadian Actress Megan Follows in the role of Anne Shirley which displays great acting range for an actress so young. If this was released in the cinemas, this film would have garnered Oscar nominations for Megan Follows as Anne and of course, the wonderful Colleen Dewhurst as Marilla Cuthbert as well Richard Farnsworth as Matthew Cuthbert, a pair of siblings who adopt Anne reluctantly to care for on the farm on Prince Edward Island. Of course, the story doesn't end there. By the time we finish watching this extraordinary piece of film, we want more because these characters and the actors who portray them become very dear to us. We love Anne for all her faults and her amazing sense of humor and adventure. A person like Anne brings out the best in everyone and Megan Follows performance certainly displays a loyalty to the author's intentions. Apart, the direction, cinematography, acting, writing, and art direction is first rate and would have garnered Oscar nominations easily.