Bridge to Terabithia [Blu-ray]

watched this in my class when I was in elementary school so I brought it to reminisce

I will always love this movie!

LOVE THIS MOVIE!!

A story of friendship and loss. If you only know this from memes, you have to watch the movie and perhaps read the book to get it. Still, it is a heart warming movie of friendship, kids being misfits and finding solace in imagination.This covers the topic of loss and even after all these years, it still holds up. Yet it also shows the necessity of grief. Grief is important and if anything, that is the greatest lesson taught.

Beautiful story. This tear jerker is sad but lovely.

The book is awesome, and the movie is a fun way to reward kids who have read the whole thing. The only thing is that you will probably need a permission slip if you're doing this at school since it's PG. The reason it's PG is that it touches on the mature topic of death and bullying; there's nothing inappropriate, unless your little ones think the fantasy stuff is scary.When I taught the book, most of my kids had already seen the movie, since it is a modern film.The thing about Terabithia is that it's a place the boy and girl made up, and all the CG fantasy stuff is a visualization of what the kids are imagining. If you see the movie before reading the book, you miss that part. It is advertised as a fantasy like Narnia, but all the fantasy is what the kids imagine.If you look at the bad reviews, you just see people who didn't like the sad ending, or who were expecting more fantasy. Obviously they didn't read the book. Keep in mind that originally the book was written in the 70s, when life was very different. The movie does a pretty good job of *showing* you e book, but they do change a few things, including the setting. It has a very sad ending, the same as the book, so make sure your kids can handle death being a theme. I would have given it five stars if it had stuck more closely to the book, but overall I understand why they changed a few things.To summarize the plot, the little boy hates his life, then he meets the girl, who is new to the school. They get bullied at school so they find a little hide-out in the first and imagine all this fantasy stuff; it's not literally there, and the CD graphics are just to show you what they imagine. They go to Terabithia several times, and the story shows you the boy's sad life, and how he finds a few positive things to help him get through it. I won't tell you exactly how it ends, but it *is* sad, so don't show this to little ones expecting a feel-good happy ending.You should probably talk to your kids, in fact, about issues like death and bullying. This is reality, and we need to face it. Plus, read the book first, because it has so much more to offer. Just remember, the setting is the 70s in the book.

This movie is too good! Must watch!

Disney brough out the film version of a book called Bridge to Terabithia, which whether or not you are famliar with the book, you should have either a fun or a not so fun watching this movie. But like anybody looking to see this movie, you should be warned before watching that there is a death that happens in the movie, and I perfer not to spoil it for you, of who dies in this movie, but thankfully the death occurs off the screen. The book was written by Katherine Paterson, and now they have the film version. Jesse Aarons (Josh Hutcherson) is beginning a new schol year, and spents part of the first morning running around his family's farm. His father Jack Aarons (Robert Patrick) works at a hardware store, and also runs the farm, and is also strict as stern. Jesse has 4 sisters, and he is the only boy out of the family. The new school year brings Jesse 2 teachers, if he has more, the others are off the screen, they are Mrs. Myers (Jen Wolfe) and music teacher Ms. Edmonds (Zooey Deschanel). The first day also brings a new classmate, a girl named Leslie Burke (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's AnnaSophia Robb), who also enters a race that Jesse has been trainning for. But they soon become best friends, along with being neighbors. There are also 2 bullies at the school Scott Hoager (Cameron Wakefield) and Janice Avery (Lauren Clinton) who even stands outside the women's bathroom, and charges $1.00 just to use it. Growing tired of their home, and school lives, Jesse and Leslie creates their own world, which they become rulers of, which they name Terabithia. They keep their new world a secret from their own famiies, which includes Jesse's younger sister May Belle Aarons (Bailee Madison), who just wants to even spent time with them, even if it does bother Jesse.