TextArea on form only taking a maximum of 50 characters? - php

Question

When a user tries to enter a review in "textarea" in the form, only 50 characters of review is displayed. I have tried resolving the situation by disabling Jquery form validation changing the field type to tinytext, mediumtext. I am able to enter the full review 200 characters via PHPMyAdmin so I am guessing the problem is with my PHP but I am not able to see anything obvious . If any one could help it would be greatly appreciated.
<label for="review">Your Review</label>
<br/>
<textarea name="review" id="review" rows="15" cols="60"></textarea>
// Check for a review
if (empty($_POST['review'])){
$errors[] = "Please write a review";
} else {
$review = (trim($_POST['review']));
}
if (empty($errors)) { // If no errors were found.
require_once('./includes/mysql_connect.php');
// Make the insert query.
$query = "INSERT INTO films (movie_title, actor, rating, user_id)
Values ('$mt', '$la', '$rating', '$user')";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$id = mysql_insert_id();
$query = "INSERT INTO reviewed (review, movie_id)
values ('$review', '$id')";
$result = mysql_query($query);
<div id="Review_container">
<?php
require_once('./includes/mysql_connect.php');
$review = $_GET['id'];
echo $review;
?>
</div>
Table structure for table `reviewed`
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `reviewed` (
`review_id` int(4) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`review` mediumtext NOT NULL,
`movie_id` int(4) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`review_id`),
KEY `movie_id` (`movie_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=4 ;
//No value for review
if ($('#review').val() == "") {
$('.error').append("<li>Please enter a review</li>");
error = true;
}
if (error) { // If error found dont submit.
e.preventDefault();
}
}); // End of .submit function: review_a_film.php