Sugar Creek Gang: Swamp Robber

I saw the "Sugar Creek Gang and the Swamp Robber" this past week and I thought the DVD stuck pretty close to the book's (by Paul Hutchens) storyline. There were a few changes - Circus is a girl and Dragonfly's sister, Bob and Tom Till from the other books were also added in to this story. Charlotte Anne, Bill's sister who was born in the book, is about 7 years old in the movie and Bill doesn't have red hair. The ending was a little strange, but I believe they did it to make way for the sequels that are to come after it. The music was sometimes a little too loud and didn't necessarily fit well in a couple of places. I really enjoyed it and so did my children as well as my nephew. It was a good, clean family film which is getting harder to find nowadays, and I am looking forward to the other four DVD's that are to follow.

We were looking for a good family movie and came across this series at the video store. The original author of the book series was from the same county in Indiana where we live so it caught our interest. It is often nice to see a story that revolves around something familiar. After watching it for the first 5-10 minutes, it became apparent that "good" was not a major part of the equation. In fact, I think they left it out completely. Whatever message was trying to be conveyed was completely overshadowed by the horrible acting and poor quality of editing. It was so ridiculous that we got to the point that we just started laughing and it wasn't supposed to be funny.