This is an unintentionally hilarious sci-fi yarn that was supposed to be "meaningful" and "high-tech". It still makes me laugh just thinking about how awful this film is. Oprah Winfrey cannot act; neither can anyone else in this Billy Mumy wannabe ripoff. Give me the Twilight Zone episode with Mumy for 25 minutes over this cornball crap. Aside from the terrible story line; a man gives up his supposedly happy home life for years discovering the cosmos and travel at faster than lightspeed. Please; give me Buzz Lightyear for infinity and beyond instead of this lame wuss who cant even discipline his six year old child. What an idiotic storyline; overly simplistic and sugar-coated to the extent you will get Diabetes if you watch the entire film. Don't even get into the racial insults implied in the film. White man with high yeller woman is fine; it can happen. Nothing wrong with that. But to have your daughter prefer a white man, and then the sequence where the little boy prefers a high yeller girl companion indicates a fairly strong disregard of sensitivity for two entire groups: black men and white women. Both groups are excluded from any relationships in the film. All the white girls are bad, and there isn't one positive black man in the film. Nice way to promote racial integration. How ironic that a film that tries to be PC is horribly NOT PC. But the bottom line is that it really is a crappy film.

This movie made me want to read A Wrinkle in Time again, because I don't remember the book being this trippy....or disjointed...or heavily reliant on colorful CGI... . Maybe the novel really is unfilmable, because this movie is a mess. From the acting to the plotline to the cinematography-nothing really works. It just goes to show that you can't rely on Oprah to solve all of your problems.

I very rarely walk out in the middle of a movie. But I did last night about one hour into "Wrinkle In Time"--and I was glad I did. This film had everything wrong with it, direction, acting, scripting. About the only aspect I found somewhat rewarding was the special effects, which kept me in my seat for at least those 60 excruciating minutes. Ava DuVernay's direction bordered on amateurish. Her framing was uncomfortably tight in a number of shots. And I've seen more of Oprah's inside of her nose with DuVernay's camera looking up at the giant actress than I care to remember. The pouting Storm Reid, playing the 13-year-old Meg Murry, was unrelatable as the heroine of the film. And most irritating was her younger brother, Deric McCabe, whose high-pitched voice was barely intelligible. Walt Disney Pictures should be ashamed of themselves releasing this complete waste of time. I've seen film school studio projects better produced than this. I hope the paying public avoids this film and sends this film quickly into the trash dump.