Lady in The Water

After missing this movie in the theater, I was extremely excited to have the opportunity to watch it on TV the other night. After viewing it once, I must honestly say that my excitement was not fully warranted. It was a good movie, short, and it was refreshingly clean. But the plot was just a little too far-fetched. Everyone believed this 'bedtime story' about the 'Blue World' and 'Narfs', etc, a little too easily. Where were the skeptics? The rational thinkers? Or, if the 'Lady in the water' had some strange power to render her story credible to the most disbelieving of skeptics, why didn't the director say so, or show that it was so? That said, M. Night Shyamalan has presented us with a fully connected, fully answered plot. All the 'I's' are dotted and the 't's' are crossed. And then you watch it again and see how Shymalan introduces key characters and plot elements with a similar masterful subtlety that JK Rowling uses introduce hers. And then it all comes together brilliantly for a very, very abbreviated and almost unsuspected ending. I was watching the film, waiting for what happened next, and then I was looking at the credits. It's worth watching once, and maybe twice, but I won't be owning it anytime soon.