They might find each episode a bit long, so I might wait until they're older and hope for a better version. Maybe I would recommend it to the children in my family, on a rainy day. With a little more attention to detail this could be a good series. That said, when not totally overacted, the acting is good and the characters, to children, believable. I can only assume that the Americans on the production team had more influence than the British members, if there were any. Surely they didn't bring it all the way from the US! The upper class accents are really over the top and everyone is rather stereotyped. It reminded me of 'Bringing in the sheaves' as sung in 'Little house on the Prairie'! The Otis family arrive in a left-hand drive vehicle. Not in the English hymn tradition at all. The hymn sung in church is obviously an American hymn, unknown in the UK. The aristocratic young viscount should have a better grasp of English grammar. ('st' is 2nd person singular, not 1st person singular.) I would have expected Antony Head to know better. What a pity that the writers think that all old English verbs end in 'st'. Gone are the ghastly desguises the ghosts use traded for wonky CGI, They even give Sir Simon a talking familiar in the form of a rat! The trip into the 4th dimension wich we never see in the novel, when Vorginia is redeeming the ghost is tirned into a bloody courtroom drama! Fair to say i HATE this version and will give it a 1/5 because it is well acted but utter trash! Wilde should haunt the team behind this travesty!Īn entertaining tale, adapted from Oscar Wilde. horseriding adventure? Gone are the eerie quality of wildes novel, yes it was fun at times but also dramatic and ghostly. They weaved in the twins looking for treasure with two redhaired gipsy twingirls, a drama about the Otises going bankrupt, a rivaling thing btween the otises and the canterville family and a. Its ofcourse set in contemporay times because. But concidering the material it doesnt help. And it sucks! There only one redeeming thing and thats head as the ghost. But i HAVE to compare it to the source material. As a kidfriendly adventure it might be ok. 5/10.Ī 2 episode version of Oscar Wildes novel starring Anthony Stewart Head, Giles from Buffy, as the titular ghost. The adaptation with David Niven is superior in every possible way, please watch that, then compare it to this, for the most part this was very poor. The standout, by a mile is Haydn Gwynne, she manages to make something out of the character, and makes the wicked Grandmother pretty interesting, sadly she's trying to swim upstream. What so unforgivable, is the pacing, it's supposed to be a ghost story, but it's just so slow and boring. The special effects genuinely look as though they've come from 1986. Only in episode four is there anything worth seeing. The first three episodes are all very poor, to say that too many liberties were taken is a huge understatement. First off, in this day and age, why do we still have to suffer Brits playing Americans with abysmal accents, and vice versa, now I'm a big fan of Caroline Catz and James Lance, but those accents are excruciating, and sadly put me off straight away. Tech billionaire Hiram Otis moves his family from The States to Canterville Chase, an English Mansion, with an unexpected extra, a ghost, in the form of Simon de Canterville.
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