A couple of years ago, I finished reading the humorous and creative book, The Westing Game. At the end of the school year my 2 teachers let me and my class watch this movie to compare to the book. My teachers had hinted that we would be very disappointed. After watching the movie, the whole class, thought the movie was much, much more than disappointing.A few reasons why this movie was bad: They excluded many important characters. I understand it would be hard for directors to have many characters, they probably thought it would confuse the audience. The book had clever humor in it and it made you fall in love with the characters and the whole story. Again, this was probably hard for the directors, in the book, there was a narrator.One of the biggest mistakes that the director made was having Turtle Wexler as the main character. She solved Westing's Game and none of the others seemed important besides Sandy/Westing. The Westing Game was not really about Turtle, it was about all the tenants in Sunset Towers. In the book, she later becomes more of the main character; you follow her story and others.Many plots were also excluded, many characters, their personalities were changed. For example, Angela Wexler, she was a timid, shy and she had a do-anything-your-mother-says attitude, but not in the movie. I was sorely disappointed with this film and I hope they have a whole new film about the Westing Game and that everyone will eventually forget about this film. It has already begun to fade from my memory.

I am a teacher who read The Westing Game to his class. Then we watched the movie. I did not feel that the movie did the book justice, but here is what some of my students thought:The movie was different from the book. Why did you leave out that Turtle won $200 million? Brittany.I liked the movie, because some of the details in the movie were different, like when Turtle was under the judge's desk and Crow helped her. The book was better, but I wouldn't mind watching the movie again. ShaniceI think the book was better, but the movie was good too. I liked the movie, because it wasn't soooo confusing, and there wasn't much violence. MarisaI liked the movie, because you can understand it. I liked it because Turtle was such a smart girl, and she helped solve the problems. I liked the boy in the wheelchair (Chris), because he helped solve problems too. I think that Turtle is a funny name. SandraI loved the movie, because they have good details and a great plot. JoshI liked the movie, because most of the information matched the book. StephenI think that the book and the movie were both really good. Some parts were in the book and weren't in the movie, like the dressmaker (Flora Baumbach) wasn't Turtle's partner, and she wasn't even in the movie. The movie was more interesting than the book. SibelThe movie was da bomb--just joking. It was good and so was the book. Turtle was the best part in the movie and the smartest one except for Sandy the doorman. DakotaI liked the book, but I didn't like the movie as much. I hope they make another movie that is better than this one. I liked the movie because they left out some of the details that I thought were boring in the book. Tyler

I just finished reading the Westing Game a couple years ago, and one day when I was searching on the IMDb for a completely different topic, this movie turned up. I have not seen it, but by simply looking at the cast list, I know they did something wrong. How did they louse it up? Let me count the ways.CHARACTERS 1 Got Rid Of Madame Hoo (& Thus The Burglary Plot) 2 Got Rid Of Flora Baumbach (& Thus Turtle's Confidante) 3 Got Rid Of Mister Theodorakis (& Thus Violet Westing Connection) 4 Got Rid Of Theo Theodorakis (& Thus Chris' Caretaker) 5 Got Rid Of Edgar Plum (& Thus Somewhat Humorous Idiotic Lawyer)SUBPLOTS 1 Burglary 2 Stocks 3 Violet Westing & Mister TheodorakisMISCELLANEOUS 1 And So OnWhy Did They Let This Happen To A Great Children's Book? Shame On Whoever Did This!

The book was far better than this horible theatrical recreation. I makes me wonder if anyone associated with the film has ever read the book. They dropped at least five key characters and then went on to destroy the other characters completly. While the beginning and the end of the movie may have been remotely simmiler to the book, the rest of the movie was a total loss. The book was clevery written leaving you guessing up til the very end with every player intertwining around the others. I was sorley dissapointed, I could see no reason as to why anyone would want to turn such a good book into such a bad movie, It was a complete waste of time and money. Do Not See This Film.