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Simply A Masterpiece

Best movie ever!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This is so morbid. It is so depressing. After the prequel, "Flowers in the Attic," the author should have stopped there.Everything is depicted as being so negative here. Lust, incestuous relationship between brother and daughter, cruelty abounds and one tragic sequence after another. Even at the end, when things look like they have resolved themselves, one begins to wonder what else is new.After all, we have witnessed a brother and sister in love, the youngest sister taunted by classmates and locked in a closet. Anyone notice how quickly that issue was resolved? The latter about to marry a minister but finding rejection once again by her mother commits suicide. This drives the oldest sister to plot revenge by getting involved with the mother's new husband and becoming pregnant from him. If that isn't enough, the oldest daughter enters into an abusive relationship with a ballet dancer who also went after the younger sister.Not missing are illegitimate children. Where is the morality in this wayward writing?

Awesome. I expected a part 2 to not be as good as the first But it was just awesome. They almost could have made 2 movies out of it cuz it moved so quickly- but that's only cuz it made you want more when it was over. Great job by robin lippin Csa.I'm a huge Lizzie McGuire fan. Robin did an AWESOME JOB - the older Cathy looked so much like the younger - when she'd turn her head at times she looked just like the young Cathy in FITA. with a plot of this going on and on you could almost do a mini series or a series - generation after generation--- very well done. Heather graham did so good with that crazed look in her eyes-- the girl who played Carrie was just beautiful. All the actors did a wonderful job- I was just so impressed and I never review movies or put things online about a movie- I just loved it.

This was absolutely awful. I guess it may pass if you haven't read the books but I would assume it would be rather hard to follow considering how choppy the movie was. They attempted to fit too much into much too little time. It should've been split into two separate movies. Everything was wrong, small and large. Let's start with the fact that they took away EVERYTHING involving Paul. The opening scene is his funeral and the timeline is all off. The movie seems confusing because Cathy seems to run away with a guy she has met once and then proceeds to let him abuse her, in the book she knows him for YEARS and he repeatedly tries to court her and then she runs away with him and marries him because she believes Paul has deceived her. Also, she DOES become a big dancer and thats part of why she is so hesitant to leave! She believes she will ruin her career that she has worked so hard to build. And I feel I should mention that while Julian is a good portrayal of cruelty in the movie, he never once apologizes to her and attempts to rectify it as he does in the movie. He eventually purposefully stomps on her toes breaking them to ruin her career, he does die as in the movie although she is not with and he dies later at the hospital after she tells him of the baby and he kills himself. Cathy's whole plot against her mother is accurate but she does love Bart, they play it out like it was just a ruse but she did fall for him.Carrie's storyline is similar to the book so I will give them that, she is abused by the girls at school and teased for her size although it is not right. Also she does hook up with Julian but this is found out right before her death and Chris never knew, and that whole fight scene was made for the movie. She does kill herself due to her mother denying her and the donuts were accurate although she is not dead when they find her, they take her to the hospital although she does not pull through.Christopher's entire thing was wrong. He did propose to Sarah. He never even dates any girl seriously because he can't get find anyone because he always wants Cathy. And no one ever knows about Christopher and Cathy except Julian suspects.The last point I will make is that Corinne was portrayed poorly. She does not purposefully kill her mother and she does not renovate Foxworth Hall. She actually had been following her children's lives. Cathy was a famous dancer and Corinne quite frequently went to her shows. And the grandmother did not feel remorse as they showed in both Flowers and Petals. The whole thing with Cory's body was eerie but no where near accurate.I can't even go on, the point is the movie was horrible, I loved the books and frankly the movie just didn't deliver. The movie could have been well executed but even the moments that were good were vastly overshadowed by the inaccuracies and the really big "wow" moments didn't have as much impact due to being rushed.

If you watched 'Flowers in the Attic' recently you will want to watch this sequel. But be warned it's not as well done or well acted. There was just too much story for a 2 hour movie. A 2 part mini series would have been better. Every few minutes a dramatic event happens with insufficient lead up, it felt like an extended trailer. The latter third and the final confrontation and fire were almost like on fast forward. Because things moved so quickly it felt like Cathy was jumping in and out of bed like in some trashy day time soap.The acting of the new leads isn't as good as in Flowers. Rose McIver is pretty but a bit full in the face for a ballerina. Someone more slender would have fit the bill better. She wasn't vulnerable looking enough for the events surrounding her. Wyatt Nash is a bit too stoned faced and expressionless. His reaction in dramatic scenes was high school amateurish. Mason Dye in Flowers acted more tortured than he did. Heather Graham acted suitably high strung and Ellen Burstyn was still vindictive enough in her few minutes of screen time. Their acting elevated the standard for part of the movie.If you are a fan of the books or enjoyed Flowers you will want to watch this for completeness. Hopefully if the do the next movies in the series they will do a better job.