My wife and I decided to watch the new version of Charlotte's web. It was so bad we decided not to finish it.
The casting is terrible. No one who knows anything about Dakota Fanning can imagine her pushing a little pig around in a baby stroller and whining to her mom about not being able to say goodnight to Wilbur in the barn. Julia Robert's voice as Charlotte is so distinctive, every time she spoke it pulled me out of the movie. As for the other animals - I just found their voices annoying.
You can tell they tried to make this a magical movie, but it just doesn't work. The plot feels like it's plodding along and nothing feels special. I didn't feel like I cared about any of the animals.
I give it one pig out of five.