The New World(2005)- User Reviews

This is the worst movie I've ever seen, and I've seen Gigli. It is two and a half hours of a girl prancing through the grass, not saying a word, with the most awkward symphonic score I've ever heard. I thought an orchestra was tuning, I swear. The movie starts out showing shots of swampland for much too long (honestly, how interesting is that?) and never improves from there. There are needless shots of hair combing, prancing, trees, prancing, grass, prancing, and of course prancing, placed all throughout the film. Any attempt to put continuity in the story is ruined by these completely pointless additions. Moreover, any significant attempt at plot development is told with one or two images and a sentence followed by ten minutes of prancing. I really don't know what the director was thinking, or how anyone could sit through a screening of that and think it would make money. At the end of the movie, the whole theater laughed. I'm not kidding. I've never experienced that before - not even at Gigli.