Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

bshaef Another win by Masterpiece theater. I didn't expect great theater but it was a very entertaining hour every week. I liked all the characters and the stories and the scenery. Masterpiece has created some very good series which I have enjoyed watching. I would put most of them against anything on US network TV.

Laight The show seems to attract two different viewing audiences: those who know little or nothing about the books upon which it is based, and those who adore the books. The former like the show. The latter do not. I belong to the latter group. I grew up with these and all of the other Durrell animal books. They are among the most entertaining of their kind ever written. This series has almost nothing to do with them. It's a kind of weird family drama that acknowledges some of what makes the books so special, but then veers off into your basic family-struggles-in-strange-land-to-survive formulaic pap. It's hard to know what the producers were thinking. The cast handles the poor scripts pretty well, and the direction is good. The scenery is lovely. That's not enough to make a good show. And what's really missing is what made the books so wonderful: Gerry's absolute love of animals. Every episode contains some kind of Gerry and the animals bit, but the screenwriter has no conception of what these creatures really meant to Gerry. Here the character has only a scientific interest in them, he's cold and almost brutal toward them. What made Gerry Durrell so remarkable was that he considered every animal to be as deserving of respect as any human. He didn't just trap them and study them. He fell in love with them. That love, that warmth, that emotion is totally missing.

holisticgardener-767-794988 The scenery is lovely. After that it is all downhill. The acting is overblown. The writers of this televised version of the delightful books should be banned from writing for television or the movies ever again. I looked forward to this show, having read the books years ago. Within half an hour I wondered what on earth was going on. There is absolutely nothing humorous or enchanting in this PBS mess. I am surprised to see that there are now more episodes being released. Just skip this mess and go start with the book "My Family and Other Animals" and read it with the other two books in the series for some delightful entertainment.

Dave This is an ITV drama series about a real-life English family living in Corfu in the 1930s.This is a slow, boring drama - it could and should have been a lively comedy.None of the characters are likable or interesting.Keeley Hawes is severely miscast as the mother. She's far too young for the role.