Perfect cast and a good story

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Albeit slightly sugarcoated it follows the book quite well.We start the movie with this beautiful opening that showcases the film's setting. We then see John Arable trying to decide what to do with a pig who is a runt. But, before he can do away with it his daughter Fern is able to stop him. John then decides that Fern can raise the pig until he's big enough to be sold. She develops a bond with the piglet and names him Wilbur, but the bond is cut short. Much to Fern's protest John then decides to sell Wilbur to his brother in law Homer Zuckerman this way Fern can come for a visit. Wilbur is lonely until he meets a spider by the name of Charlotte A. Cavatica. The two become friends and although Wilbur is excited to have made a friend he later learns that he will be slaughtered in the fall. Charlotte decides to help save Wilbur's life. With the help of a rat named Templeton Charlotte is able to write messages in her webs to describe Wilbur. The pig becomes famous and Zuckerman decides to take him to the county fair. Where a final message from Charlotte decides the fate of Wilbur. "Humble" is the word that makes Zuckerman decide that his pig will live to a ripe age. Charlotte is proud of Wilbur and decides to show him her egg sack containing 514 baby spiders. Sadly, Charlotte tells Wilbur she will not be able to go back to Zuckerman's farm because she is too old and exhausted. Charlotte passes away and Wilbur is saddened. Taking her egg sack Wilbur decides to keep her children safe until Spring when they hatch. 511 spiders are seen leaving the farm and this upsets Wilbur. Until he sees three little spiders up where Charlotte's Web used to be. He christens them Joy, Aranea and Nellie.This movie does a good job telling the story but the emotional scenes were toned down compared to the 1973 animated film. Added slapstick involving Templeton and a couple of crows and a celebrity heavy voice cast including Julia Roberts and Reba McEntire. Personally I think it's a fine adaptation and families will love it.

The original 1973 Charlotte's Web was an animated masterpiece. So, when I heard there was a remake, I figured I'd take my little brother to go see it.Big mistake.Although Julia Roberts and Oprah Winfrey were great as the voices of Charlotte and the goose, the movie itself looked like a lousy attempt at a remake. As usual, the movie was wrecked even further by hiring overused and annoying child actress Dakota Fanning (Coraline, Hide & Seek, Twilight) as Fern. God, somebody really needs to fire her for once, she's a horrible actress, only hired because people thought she looked cute as a kid when there were thousands of other great child actresses out there.The animals looked like creepy talking puppets, it was very weird. The soundtrack was bad, the plot unlike the book... in short, don't waste your time with this garbage, watch something else and buy your kid a doll or basketball instead of blowing your money on this thing.

Wilbur the little pig is taken good care from a girl. However, she has to leave the pig from her home. The pig becomes to live in a mountain hut with other animals a part from the girl.The movie is very moving story. Animal are described vivid manner. Wilbur is very cute. In Other animals, I like rat and baby spider in this film. I don't remember his name, but the rat in this movie is very tricky. He looks like dirty and he always speak like a perverse mood. However, I cannot hate his character. Because, he working for Wilbur very hard. Of course Charlotte, the spider is done the best for Wilbur. Charlotte is very smart. It is also helpful to learn English vocabulary from her writing for me. In general, pig, spider and rat are not so popular because of their ugly appearance. In this film, they play an active part.Children should watch this movie. It is help for education. People can learn friendship, life and death, and discrimination. I recommend you to watch it with your children.

I rented this movie last night and just finished watching it. It was excellent in every way it was done. I also own the cartoon version and love that one too. Eventually I will buy this version on DVD and watch it pretty often. Some movies that I have seen that has been done from a cartoon version are not all that great but this one was and I really enjoyed it from beginning to end. I definitely recommend this movie to anyone; and not just kids either. Just like the cartoon version, I laughed and I cried at the same exact parts with some differences between the two but other than that; I really loved this movie and look forward to owning it soon on DVD to watch all over again.