Ballet Shoes (2008)

Fantastic!

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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.

Having loved the book growing up, I was bound to see this. I had bought the 1975 BBC version and found it to be absolutely terrible, as it completely mishandled the adaptation. What is surprising is that the 1975 version ran longer and could be argued as being more faithful to the book. Having said that, this version of Ballet Shoes captures the spirit of the story much better. I loved Emilia Fox's Sylvia and the entire cast did very well. I had been a little apprehensive of Emma Watson as Pauline since I'd never seen her as anything but Hermione from the Harry Potter series, but I was pretty happy with the performance after all. I won't recap the story here, but basically; I love the book, and the movie brought out the reasons why I loved it, so that's good enough for me. I hope you all enjoy it too.

This is a TV film based on the book Ballet Shoes. It is about three adopted girls just after the First World War who all have different ambitions for the future.This may come as a shocking statement to some, but I think this deserved to be in the cinemas just as much as Spiderman 3, Enchanted and that sort of thing. I like those films as well of course, but this is really something.I like this for the brilliant acting from Emma Watson etc, the similarity to the Noel Streatfield book, a lot of the humour and the end of the story, it is one of my favourite parts of the film. It may miss bits out from the book, but those bits are the unnecessary parts and the parts left in are well-chosen. I cannot properly explain how and why I like this (the previous part of the paragraph was not totally what I meant), but I just recommend it to anyone who likes the book and people who like Emma Watson.At the very beginning of the film, a young girl with no surviving relatives other than her uncle, goes to live with him in his huge house of fossils. Her life becomes happier, but it soon turns out to be hard work again when on his travels around the world, the uncle sends her three baby girls. These girls grow up to have bright personalities and mixed interests and talents.Enjoy "Ballet Shoes"! :-)

At first I just wanna watch this movie because I love Emma and she is my favorite as Hermione on Harry Potter movies. But I decided to read the book, not so famous in my country among the children and with no translation, and I love it. My favorite character was Petrova, a girl really talented but misunderstood in a society that thought cars and machines where not made for girls. When I saw the movie I love it too, despite the changes that the story suffer in comparison with book (for example, the lung problems of Garnie, her romance with Mr Simpson and the triangle that involves Theo). I love Emilia Fox as Garnie: you can see her pain and suffering about the girl's future with Gum's disappearing, and still, her sweet personality. Even if the girls (Emma, Lucy and Yasmin) are bigger than her characters on the book, they were fantastic, never silly and the story for them had sense. I loved Emma as Pauline, think she can do it better as actress, but is really talented and her story on the showbiz is far from being over. Lucy as Posy was excellent: this kid is really gifted and I guess a successful career is waiting for her. And my favorite, Petrova, could no find a better performer than Yasmin Paige. For me, Yasmin was the best of all, with a lot of passion and feeling. Thanks to BBC and to all this casting for honoring like this to a master as Noel Streatfeild.