Talkie Zoo: THE LOVELY BONES

This sort of fantasy film reminded me a great deal of What Dreams May Come in the way it switched from the world of the living to the world of the dead, namely, the girl who was murdered at age 14. The Lovely Bones (2009; PG-13) tells us of a girl who reminisces about her life from a small child to the day she is killed - including the time when her mother is taking liquid prenatal vitamins for the babies she carries after the birth of her first child, Suzie.

It's a poignant and dear story. The girl has barely reached an age where she can begin to feel the first flutters of puppy love in her heart when her life is stolen from her. We watch as she runs from the killer only to discover, through events, that she is already dead. Then, she is on a quest to show her family and others who the real killer is so that he can be stopped. She cannot personally accept heaven until this quest is finished - her own choice.

I have read other reviews and apparently others didn't find the movie as engaging as I did. Judge for yourself, though. Critical reviews aren't generally worth the paper they were written on in this day of cutting edge CGI and fast action films.