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Rating:  - Even young viewers will enjoy it
My daughter started watching this at age 4, and we've seen it many times since. Many aspects of the film may have escaped her, but she is utterly enchanted with the idea of creating fairy houses. She regularly collects objects from the garden and spends hours constructing elaborate small-scale mansions. We may live in a cynical world, and it may be easy to turn on Pokemon or Rugrats or something else shallow, but if you want to do a real favor for a small person you love, get this video and watch it together.
Rating:  - booorriiinngg!!
This movie was sooooo boring, it didn't have anything. Where's the comedy? Where's the action? Where's the romance? This is what I think the worst movie I ever saw in theatres. And the fiaries. You only saw one fairy,in the beginning and then a lot at the end, but that's all. How cheesy is that? To me, this movie was very unmemorable, because I hardly remember much, which might be good. It just seemed like nothing. This movie hardly had any plot. They're just trying to prove fairies exist. I remember me, my brother, Mat and my Dad being quite bored by it. I should have saw some other movie at the time like "A Simple Wish". In other words, skip it.
Rating: - GREATNESS
THIS STORY IS AS REAL AS IT COMES! THIS MOVIE IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY FROM ENGLAND DURING ONE OF THE WORLD WARS. ITS A GREAT MOVIE.
Rating: - A true story? Yeah right...
The fact that this movie was made at all annoys me, but what annoys me more is the title of the film. Fairy Tale - A TRUE story? Give me a break.
If you haven't seen or heard of the movie (or the actual incident in 1917), it is about two little girls who go out by the creek where they're living and take photographs of fairies. They become a huge sensation, supported by hundreds of people who now believe in faries, including Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is fairly close to the actual story of the Cottingly Fairies, except it is missing one small, minor detail: The photographs were a hoax.
Elsie a Frances used paper cut-outs of fairies from a popular book at that time, setting them up to look as if they were dancing about on some rocks by the stream. They took pictures of eachother posing behind the cutouts, and when the photographs were developed they told everybody that they had been dancing with real fairies. People believed them, and things built from there.
None of this is ever mentioned in the movie, and the fact that there are fairies fluttering about all over the creek makes it quite obvious that they had no intention of actually sticking to the true story of the cottingley fairies. So why did they find it necessary to call it "A True Story"?
I would have enjoyed this movie much more if they had not deemed it necessary to glorify two little girls who played a nasty trick on a lot of vulnerable people. They could have easily changed the setting of the movie or at least changed the names of the people involved. Of course, I suppose if they had done that, they wouldn't have been able to call it "a true story."
Rating:  - Utterly captivating...
I don't know why this film affected me so strongly, but I think it is about as close to perfection as a film can get (for me). At the end I was quite overcome, the cumulative effects of wonder, sorrow over what has been lost, joy over what has been found. Every moment in this movie rings pure and true. I can't recommend it highly enough. Stunningly beautiful, too. Don't miss it!
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