Bridge to Terabithia – Flushed Away – Hamlet – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End – The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show: 1973 – Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe Review of 2009 – 26 Dec 2009

The first recording today starts with the weather. There’s a trail for sport in 2010. A trail for So You Think You Can Dance. Plus a trail for Total Wipeout Celebrity Special. Then it’s another movie, Bridge to Terabithia. I don’t think I got around to watching this at the time. Having watched it now, maybe that was a good thing. My daughter, when I said I was watching this, said she’d seen a review of it, and as a result never wanted to watch it. Let’s see if I agree. Josh Hutcherson (quite a few years before he was in The Hunger Games) is Jess, a young boy who’s very unhappy, both at school and at home. I’m not surprised, because the bullying that goes on at this school is appalling and none of the teachers seem to care. Are American schools really like this? It’s not just the boys bullying – the girls do it too, like Janice who charges the kids one dollar to use the toilet. Again, nobody seems to do anything. There’s a new girl at school, Leslie, who doesn’t make the best…