I'm of an age where I was brought up on films which suffer by comparison to today's, so the fact that the effects were not really comparable (for instance) is not a factor in my comments.
But this just wasn't very good. The story was weak, the acting was not so much bad as not really appropriate to the characters, the script was drivel, Poitier was truly dreadful, and the musical score simply didn't fit what was on screen. And never mind the miraculous bell.
Let me illustrate how bad it is by drawing your attention to the extensive voiceover information dump at the start. Basic film theory ays show don't tell. All the information here should have been conveyed in the early stages of the film by event or dialogue, rather than being piled onto the audience in a single enormous gradeless heap.
The best thing about it is the host of prominent British actors who you can't recognise through their beards, but you can have fun trying if you know beforehand that they're in it.
On the whole, though, too poor to even be classed as fun, I'm afraid.
But this just wasn't very good. The story was weak, the acting was not so much bad as not really appropriate to the characters, the script was drivel, Poitier was truly dreadful, and the musical score simply didn't fit what was on screen. And never mind the miraculous bell.
Let me illustrate how bad it is by drawing your attention to the extensive voiceover information dump at the start. Basic film theory ays show don't tell. All the information here should have been conveyed in the early stages of the film by event or dialogue, rather than being piled onto the audience in a single enormous gradeless heap.
The best thing about it is the host of prominent British actors who you can't recognise through their beards, but you can have fun trying if you know beforehand that they're in it.
On the whole, though, too poor to even be classed as fun, I'm afraid.