Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie (1999)

Too much of everything

the audience applauded

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Colleen is providing medical services to the Queen of England (how absurd) and so she and Andrew do not appear in this movie. Nor does Matthew or Hank. Michaela and Sully take the lead roles. We see plenty of Cloud Dancing, Jake, Robert E, Horace, and Brian. We also see some of the Reverend, Loren Bray, Grace, and Dorothy. DISCREPANCIES: Katie should be about 6 years old by now, not 4. Grace should have a child by now, given that she was pregnant in the final episode, but I saw no sign of any black child in this movie. Jake spoke no Spanish, despite his marriage to a Spanish señora (absent from the movie). Edison's light bulb was not invented until 1879, two years after this movie is dated, so the opening scenes regarding copper wires and copper mining could not have occurred yet.QUIBBLES: Once again, it is Sully's characterization that bugs me. Why didn't he respond to the direct threat of "dire consequences" and take steps to protect his family? (He makes the same mistake in the next movie). Why did he totally ignore the threat, not even telling Michaela about it? The least he could have done was to keep his family nearby, under close watch. But no, instead he left little Katie at home that same night, with only Horace babysitting. When Katie was kidnapped, Michaela blamed Sully for not telling her about the threat. His response was to say she takes risks all the time, like when she treats patients with contagious diseases, or secretly helps the natives. What a crock! Later, when Sully rescues Katie, he takes no precautions. He leaves the door wide open. He doesn't first check that the coast is clear. He doesn't wait until the entire household is asleep. This reckless behavior made no sense, given his previous characterization as a stealthy sneaky operative.Sully leaves Katie in the hands of a strange woman, while he takes care of a dangerous matter. There's no way he'd do that, in a foreign country, after he'd lost his daughter for two months, and knowing first-hand how corrupt were the Mexican justice system and military. He would have taken Katie with him, and tucked her out of sight a short distance away. He might have brought the woman along as babysitter.I liked the prison break-out scene. And the scene with the bandits.But what are the chances that another little girl would look so much like Katie, and that Michaela herself would be fooled? The clothing alone would have provided a huge clue.

I did not really enjoy this movie or find it engaging, but my interest in the show waned sometimes too.I was incredulous to aspects of the plot, which I don't want to spoil. I did predict where it was going, but was briefly distressed by where it might have gone.I found the acting mostly dull, and I was disappointed with missing characters and other things from the series. I felt Michaela and Sully in particular were a bit cold, and they had unrealistic but not particularly passionate arguments. There were two brief moments I remember finding their performances compelling. There honestly wasn't much dialogue... I would've have appreciated some more, to further explain certain situations. It was written by someone who worked on the series, but seemingly not towards the end of the show, which may explain why some things were missing. I think it needed more involvement from Beth Sullivan (she's merely listed as creating the characters)Sidenote : Sully's hair must be a wig.

I did not get to watch this movie when it first aired but I did get to see it when Lifetime showed it in April. I thought the movie was great! Everyone on did a fabulous job with there acting, directing, writing, exc. I love the DQ series and I thank Hallmark channel for keeping it on. I hope there is a third DQ movie made.

I can always count on Dr.Quinn Medicine Woman to make me laugh. Hysterically. I won't even bother to recount the - excuse me for swearing - 'plot' of his movie. But I can tell you that 'I love you', 'I love you mommy' and 'I love you pappy' is about as deep as it gets.However, raise a glass with me and toast the blatant anachronisms, Jane Seymour's distinctly 20th Century hair and make-up (her mascara is piled on so thick that it resembles spider legs), the clichéd plots, the tweeness, the simplistic and vomit-inducing moral sentiments, the silly storylines etc.etc.etc. This is US TV at its lowest common denominator. No punch, no guts, no edge, utterly unmemorable. I'd like to personally shake the hand of the person that decided it was time to pull the plug. It is, always has been and remains, the televisual equivalent of valium.