xomarc Worst movie I ever seen...:( Really waste money! I know the book is great but production is very bad, terrible! terrible! worst adaptation.

Mel P This movie is quite possibly the most atrocious book-to-film adaptation I've ever seen.A few decades too late, I finally got around to reading A Wrinkle in Time. It was beautiful. So magical, so moving, so touching, so brilliant. And because it was on Netflix, I decided to give it a watch not even an hour after I finished reading the book. What a horrible decision I'd made. I mean, if you're reading this, take this as a sign of God to not watch the movie. Stay away. Away, away, AWAY. It will ruin everything for you. I don't know who in the hell thought it was a good idea to put things in this sad excuse of a movie that never happened in the book. Things were taken out of order. Not even the decade is the same! I'm so upset I could cry.You have been warned. This movie is nearly nothing like the book. Watch something else. I need to binge watch The Office now to forget I ever watched this garbage.

earlytalkie I read "A Wrinkle In Time" in 1963 when I was in fifth grade and loved it. I always thought it would make a marvelous film if it could be realized like my mental image of it. This adaptation came very close to what I saw in my mind's eye. The drab world of Camazotz and the imposing CENTRAL central intelligence were almost exactly as I pictured them. The performances by the principal actors were all fine, and the special effects were adequately realized. The basic storyline followed the book probably more closely than most film adaptations of famous books. The many negative reviews on this website had me scratching my head. Every one of these picked apart some small facet of the teleplay that strayed from the original vision of the author. The fact of the matter is that there are very few films, successful or not, that hew faithfully to the original text. Examples that come to mind include "Mildred Pierce", "Valley of the Dolls", "Show Boat" (1951 version), "From Here to Eternity", and yes, the beloved "Wizard of Oz". The one film I can think of that does try to stay, almost line for line, to the original is the 1974 version of "The Great Gatsby", a film I happen to like, but many feel that the dialouge in this is artificial-sounding. The reason this film was considered to be a failure was precisely because the screenwriter tried so hard to film the book faithfully. I was very satisfied after viewing "A Wrinkle In Time" and consider it to be a fine adaptation of a true classic.

Sirus_the_Virus I have never read the book"A wrinkle in time". To be perfectly honesty, after seeing the movie, do I really want to? Well, I shouldn't be reviewing this movie i'll start off with that. Next i'll say that the TV movie is pretty forgettable. Do you know why I say that? Because I forgot what happens in it. I told you it was forgettable. To be perfectly honest, no TV movie will ever be better than "Merlin".How do I describe a TV movie? I have never written a review for one before. Well, i'll just say that they usually have some celebrities. A wrinkle in time includes only one. Alfre Woodard(Or Woodward, I am not sure), the Oscar winner. The film has cheesy special effects, a mildly interesting plot, scenes that make you go "WTF". The movie is incredibly bad and it makes you go"WTF". What did I expect? It's a TV movie. They usually aren't good. As is this one. A wrinkle in time is a waste of time and a big time waster. To top it off, you'll most likely forget about it the second it's over. Well, maybe not the second it's over. But within a few minutes.A wrinkle in time:*/****