Unlike most reviewers, I thought this remake was a travesty, a tragedy, anything you care to call it. For one of a family brought up on Arthur Ramsome, this version is so totally wrong. What was a simple story of a bunch of 'decent' young 1930s children on holiday in the Lake District, trusted by their parents to sail the lake and camp on an island on their own, has been turned into something which may well amuse and entertain the children of today, but nobody surely who has read the books.
A smoking Scotswoman for a mother, a grumpy old woman for the farmer's wife, a spy in Russia for Captain Flint, a man being chased on a train, a child proffering a gun, a family who argue and shout at each other, knives, guns, and a fight aboard a seaplane - no, this isn't Swallows and Amazons.
The scenery is beautiful as you'd expect and I thought the original story quite sufficient for even today's children, so why change it?
Quite fun if you don't know the story, but rubbish if you do!
A smoking Scotswoman for a mother, a grumpy old woman for the farmer's wife, a spy in Russia for Captain Flint, a man being chased on a train, a child proffering a gun, a family who argue and shout at each other, knives, guns, and a fight aboard a seaplane - no, this isn't Swallows and Amazons.
The scenery is beautiful as you'd expect and I thought the original story quite sufficient for even today's children, so why change it?
Quite fun if you don't know the story, but rubbish if you do!