Sunday, November 09, 2008

The "American Girl" Movie Collection

I had seen these three movies before at Costco for a really good price ($15 for the set)... but they were there for a short time.

We found them there again yesterday, and so we got them. My Mom and Mindy have been trying to get Aimee to stop sucking her thumb, so they have made a deal with Aimee, which I won't go into too many details about, but it involves her to quit sucking her thumb and something about an American Girl doll.

Last night Aimee watched the one of the movies - Samantha: An American Girl Holiday.

I'll let her review it for you (there are some spoilers if you haven't seen the movie):

I think it is a good movie because there was a happy ending and some tragic parts to the story. Samantha lived with her Granmary in a small town. Then Samantha went to live with her Uncle Garth and his new wife in New York City.

I liked Samantha because she helped her friends Nellie, Bridgett, and Jenny. They were all sisters who lost their parents because they died. She helped her friends by helping them escape from the adopting place and live in her attic.

And Bridgett got sick and she had to tell her Aunt and Uncle that she took them from the adopting place because the mean lady was going to split the sisters up and send Nellie, the oldest sister who was Samantha's age, on the train to the country to work.

And when it was Christmas they made wishes and once it was Christmas Samantha's Aunt and Uncle said they were going to adopted Samantha and that she needed three sisters. They were happy. Jenny said her first words.

My favorite part was when Samantha and Nellie got to be sisters.

And Samantha's school they had a contest where you had to give the best speech about America and Progress. And Samantha wanted to talk about factories. But Samantha was disqualified because she had entered a different speech but then she told the lady who said she was disqualified that she actually saw what happened when she went to find Nellie at the factory. There was a boy who got hurt and the manager (or something) didn't care about the boy. They just put another child in his seat and made them work.

I really liked the movie because it had a happy ending.

- Aimee
She is watching Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front right now.

1 comment:

Keli said...

Tell Aimee it's totally worth giving up the thumb. Emma loves her AG Doll. She got Kit. Kit is the best movie. I've seen it 3 times in the theaters, and we bought it. Emma loves all the other movies, too. I didn't get into those so much, too princessy for me.