I was trying to figure out why the title Bridge To Terabithia sounded so familiar to me. The only thing I can come up with is that I must have read the book when I was younger, maybe in school or something, although I don’t really remember anything from it. Anyway, this is the latest children’s fantasy story to hit the big screen, based on the book by Katherine Paterson. You know the drill: two fifth-graders “discover a magical kingdom in the forest, where the two of them reign together as king and queen”. As much as people are going to make fun of this because it sounds like Narnia, I’d much rather see more family films like this instead of all those generic CGI flicks.

Bridge To Terabithia is, in fact, brought to us by the same people who did The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Disney and Walden Media), and directed by Gabor Csupo (creator of Rugrats and The Wild Thornberrys). The good news is that apparently there are no sequels so even if it sucks we won’t have to see a new one every year. According to Wikipedia, Bridge to Terabithia is also one of the top 10 most challenged books of 1990-2000, based on “concerns that the book promotes secular humanism and New Age religions, occultism, Satanism, and for accusations of sexual content”. Okay, now I’m interested. Check out the trailer for the movie over at Moviefone; it hits theatres on February 16th, 2007.