If a young actress has worked with actors like Johnny Depp, Hilary Swank and Samual L. Jackson in her last four movies I would call that rather impressive. Not that many young actors manage to work with that many experienced actors, especially if you consider that she has a movie coming up with Charlize Theron. So is it who we’re talking about? AnnaSophia Robb, probably just a vague notion to most people.

Her first role in a big Hollywood movie was in the horrible remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (I liked the original, each minute of that movie was just an insult to the original), her role was rather small though and the movie was a success none the less. Her first really successful movie in which she starred was Bridge to Terabithia, I’ve heard mixed opinions about this movie. Besides the fact that Disney managed to completely screw up the marketing for the movie leaving a lot of pissed off fantasy fans. If you make a movie which is presented as by the makers of the Chronicles of Narnia and then release a trailer which shows a fantasy world you’d expect a fantasy movie.

That wasn’t the case, what people got was how a lonely boy befriends the new girl in school (AnnaSophia in this case) which completely changes his life. Turning him from a sad lonely boy into a happy one. If it then turns out that the last minute of the movie is pretty much the trailer of course you’ll get pissed off fantasy fans. If they had marketed it as what kind of movie it actually was it might have done better, despite it being a box office success. I’m just glad I saw the movie before seeing the trailer, though when I watched the trailer afterwards I wondered what movie it was for.

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