Water for Eelephants (2011 PG13)

   The movie stars Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line, Pleasentville), Robert Pattinson (Twilight?, Vanithy Fair), Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Bastards), Paul Schneider (Bright Star, Elizabethtown), Jim Norton (Oyster Farmer, Conspircy of Silence) and Hal Holbrook (The Firm, All the Presidents Men)
   The plot of the movie is Pattinson joins the circus as a vet and falls in love with a perormerr Witherspoon who is married to the tyriannical owner Waltz.
   To quote Jerry Maguire, "You had me at hello."  The first shot was almost enough for me to like the movie from that shot alone.  The early shots reminded me a little of how the train looked in The Polar Express kind of a good looking train.
   Lets hope I dont piss of too many people but this is a retelling of Titanic.  Lets see if you agree.  There is a rich wife (ok so Titanic was a fiance) who falls in love with another man from a lower class (ok so in this movie it was not clearly established if Pattinson was poor but his first job with the circus was definatly a dead end low class job).  It envlolves romantic types of travel a state of the art ship and train (espically Witherspoons and Waltz car).   An abusive and mean husband and fiance.  Thats all i can come up with or now, now on to other similarities with other movies.
   It also reminds me of The Princiss Bride, a love story between people from diffrent classes (I know I knowPattinso may not be a lower class he is a vet).  There is also a scene that could be sad that it was taken almost directly from King Kong (the 1977 version with Jeff Bridges.  The scene involves Charles Groden and is towards the end of the movie.)  And the story is told by an older member of the story.  This is like Titanic, The Green Mile and A Princess Bride (not exactly on point because Peter Faulk tells a made up story to his grandson but the "As you wish" line at the end to me leads me to at least think he might be Wesely).  When done right with an older actor this is a good way to tell a stroy.  The three examples in thisd paragraph has good older actors to tell the story through.
   I rated this movie as a B.  Go and see it if you have not seen it yet.  Despite all of the similarities to others movie its worth going out to see.