This modern remake of Little Women is simply no match to the 1934 classic. Winona Ryder was pale, uninspiring and unnatural compared to Katharine Hepburn. It is utterly beyond me how Ryder was nominated for an Oscar for her role while Hepburn was not. Maybe this just shows how much movie-acting has degenerated -- after all, the year Ms. Ryder was nominated was the year of Forrest Gump. The four girls in this contemporary version appeared mostly chubby and mellow and looked perfectly like the middle class offsprings from a suburban family of the '90s. They even spoke the accent of the 90s! Except for the music score, it is very hard to identify any part on which the new film improved upon the old one. The supporting roles, played brilliantly by the likes of Edna May Oliver (aunt) and Henry Stephenson (Mr. Laurence) in the old version, were mostly succeeded by bland and uninteresting performances.
Review of Little Women
