Ballet Shoes

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If I'm honest, I really only wanted to watch Ballet Shoes because Emma Watson was starring in it. However, I soon came to realise that there were many many other reasons to watch it. All performances were outstanding, the three young leads especially. Emma Watson was much more suited to this part than that of Hermione Granger (whom she plays in the Harry Potter films). She showed real emotion and depth as an actress. Yasmine Paige and Lucy Boynton were also wonderful, though I would have liked to have seen more of both. I would definitely recommend this to anybody, and really cannot think of a bad word to say about it. Really spectacular. 9/10

It is obvious that this film was made for a younger audience, and as such it is a perfectly good film with a good story and interesting characters that were well acted. Although not being in the targeted age group I enjoyed the film very much too, and it reminded me of the sort of children's drama I enjoyed as a child, it has an innocence and charm which unfortunately could be lost on a modern audience. It was good to see Emma Watson in a film other than the Potter films and I feel it is certain that her career as an actress will give her great success for decades to come. I always find that Emilia Fox gives a credible performance and with the inclusion of Richard Griffiths ,Marc Warren, Lucy Coho and Victoria Wood I would recommend this film to all.

This film was good but in no way brilliant. It told the story of three young teenage girls who were for some reason abandoned and picked up by one kind man, a paleontologist (plays uncle Vernon in HP) who then takes them to his house where his keeper and another lady he rescued and raised. Over the years he goes missing and this is where the story begins of the three girls discovering who they are and the various obstacles they have to overcome in order to be what they want to be. GOOD POINTS -The acting, at first i was annoyed by it and slightly wary of Emma Watson out of context but i warmed up to each character and Emma did a pretty good job too. The story sets of quite quickly, so interest isn't lost in each character. The story, its a nice quaint story that is well set in the 1920-30's England. BAD POINTS - Mainly the story as well. At times i did think this all fitted too well together and too many things were too coincidental and fast paced- which i suppose it has to be as its a television film, but anyway it did take away the enjoyment a tad. - Also they way time is conveyed too obviously which really didn't fit in with the rest of the gentle nice storyline e.g. The flashes of newspaper headlines and nearer the beginning the bold letters all in one go indicating that about 10 years have gone by. Maybe I'm being too picky but it just didn't fit. Overall this was a nice treat and the BBC do make some really good films, for boxing day it was a good piece of Christmas television to distract you from the hectic family at Christmas! 7/10

I saw yesterday Ballet Shoes and only what can I say is one word: AMAZING! This film is very intense,romantic and Powerfully acted. Films like that are a masterpiece,i love Emma Watson and her screen play,i think she is a good actress,also plot,screenplay,scenery WHAT A MOVIE!!! Only " Catwoman" i better than Ballet Shoes. It should be in TOP 250 but it isn't , i don't know why? This film has no drawbacks it's PERFECT! Really watch it! Recommend! 10/10 (LOVE) Emma Watson please more movies like that! I love this type of movies! If you not don't watch this movie! It will be a waste of time for you. Amazing,really amazing

I swear to god, this is meant to be a family film but we see babies in bags,not buggies or even baby appropriate to carry the child! Seriously I am god smacked and extremely annoyed that they let this be filmed, this is considered child abuse! Also, the acting wasn't the best at all. It may not have been a Hollywood sort movie but they should've at least given this movie a bit of a kick! It just looks so depressing and fake, it doesn't give you enough enlightenment to know that's it's a good movie! Emma Watson and Richard Griffiths(RIP) shouldn't have gotten involved in the film, it would probably be better off if they just stuck with Harry Potter that time. I wouldn't recommend this to kids especially the younger ones!

By giving Sylvia a romance by way of deleting Mrs Simpson from the story, this 'Ballet Shoes' is not really that true to the original book. However, in the casting of the three girls (Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, Lucy Boynton), and scaling up their ages accordingly, it proves a success. With Theo Dane bringing a hint of the 20s flapper to the heart of London, and Eileen Atkins' starched Madame wishing for former glories, it manages to give some poise and heart to the world of the theatre, while retaining some fun and cynicism through Victoria Wood's Nana. Looking great and an absorbing treat for all the family, 'Ballet Shoes' is a real Christmas coup and success for the BBC.

Yes, I wanted to watch this movie because of Emma Watson. She is a few month older than I am and I've liked Harry Potter since the first movie came out. Well... Now I'm 17 and I'm not really interested in Harry Potter anymore, but I'll still watch the other movies after they come out. I've never red "Ballet Shoes" nor heard of Noel Streatfeild. I am not from the UK so don't judge me for that. After watching this movie, I'm going to see if I can find this novel, the movie was really interesting. At first, I thought Emma is horrible and she has so little screen time and I expected so much more... but after the first 20 minutes, I was thrilled with the story and I completely forgot I was watching it for Emma's performance. I almost forgot it was Emma at all. She did a good job acting, she really got out of Hermione, considering this is her first role apart from Harry Potter. I am sure she will be even better in the future, if she will be playing different characters. The rest of the cast was good, also, I really liked Emilia Fox and I've never seen anything with her before. The director did a really good job and the costumes were wonderful. The feelings the movie sent me were also powerful, I've never shed a tear during a movie in years....

The story opens in London in the 1930s, as an eccentric explorer (Richard Griffiths) returns from his adventures with three orphaned baby girls to be raised by his niece (Emilia Fox), while he goes off on another long trip. As the girls become teenagers, they enroll in a theatrical school hoping to earn enough money to support themselves: Posy wants to be a ballerina and Pauline (Emma Watson) wants to be an actress, but Petrova just wants to fly airplanes. Adapted from a well-loved children's book, this made for BBC film suffers from a script full of holes and poor direction. We meet a houseful of characters but never get to know any of them well. Their dialogue is lifeless and lacking in real emotion; except for the wonderful Ms Fox they merely take turns tediously reciting their lines and each scene falls flat. Emma Watson ("Harry Potter") looks nervous and awkward and her character, like the others, is superficial. She's supposed to be a great actress, but this isn't shown; Posy is supposed to be a gifted dancer, but again, we just have to take their word for it. Pauline, the aviator, is ignored altogether. Recommended only for those who enjoyed the novel.

Notice Emma Hermione in the first two Harry Potter features and I found that she stood out. The first four novels underlined that. Princess, could there be any other like that one of the railway carriage of HP 1? Music. Dance. I now rate Emma for the Hermione of the novels? Here she is, as Emma Pauline, and in part, for me, this continues in those footsteps. Later episodes of HP features mostly made Emma's role unrecognisable, I am grateful to this Ballet Shoes for re-kindling a spark. Two special bits when she has to perform. Her acting changing from a low key natural style to overdrive, showing raw power. So truly awesome. And it helps me to appreciate the low key more. I have to rate this feature higher than HP 4, 5, 6 and 8, though she does carry over some of the gritty persona that she learned for 4 and 5 and to me that is overdoing the grit that Pauline of the novel has. * Look at the DVD box cover pics and there was something recognisable there that did not click, but when it did this feature became extra special. There was Yasmin tooth fairy by Emma's side. Here my first two versions of the comment go askew. Tooth is no stranger to machines or flying, and here she is in what would otherwise be a standard nerd role. But it is on stage she is prone to appear to be a nerd. She is expected to act. The biggest low is when she is expected to pretend that she is a fairy. The biggest low for me is when she is scripted to have a geographer / developer motivation rather than a mech. engineering motivation. Tooth even manages to share a bath with Emma. Dream of dreams. So much better than the novel. True there will have been a film crew there, too high a price. True, they were both in tears. My biggest flaw in commenting on this feature related to this part. In the 30's some would have considered a cuddle bath to be mandatory, given the tears, but not as many as today? I had been hoping to start looking for DVDs of mid teens Drew Barrymore. Ballet Shoes told me that I needed to hold off from that for a while, concentrate on Tooth, and there were some Tooth around that I still did not have. All I got around to with Drew was a naughty girl Drew, Ivy, which is not fun sort of naughty. * Lucy Posy Boy n Ton as a problem for me. In this role she needs to be highs and lows and the highs are way more magnificent than the others, for me she does those well, but the lows are way more the opposite of magnificent and as with Emma in later HP she does that way too well. Her reaction to Madame's illness compares to UK problems with situational ethics over the past thirty years. The highs include her dance. I accept that she does not dance as an expert in ballet might, but there is still something special about her approach. The biggest flaw in this feature is how the stunt double linked in, it was the only part of this feature that was visually false, looking like Posy at the very end of the story. Elizabeth Bernard's 1987 novel, Satin Slippers 3: Stars In Her Eyes. This centres on the question of how should a dancer chose if needing to chose between her child and her dance. I did need this novel for that aspect in Ballet Shoes to be clear. * For these to stand out, it helped that the other performances were so okay. Except this is a BBC television adaptation that was made for them by the ITV? Has the world really gone so weird? Something about this story makes one cuckoo?