Rated: PG
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Release Date: 16-Oct-2009
Nudity: None
One Sentence: I am still covered with emo.
Well I am surprised to see that the running time of this movie according to IMDB was 94 minutes, becuase the movie I saw felt like 3 hours. 3 Long, rage and whining filled hours. The unchecked rage and emotion of a 9 year old, blended with a slow boring story, and oozing with a non-stop hipster soundtrack made for a movie that was the complete opposite of the timeless classic book this movie was based on. After getting out of the theater I felt bored, and glad the movie was over. It didn't provide me with anything that I felt like was innovative, thoughtful or interesting. All it provided me with was anger and fear with a lot of slow parts in between. The end of the movie did not resolve any of the issues of the beginning of the movie and I just really disliked it.
I think this could of been the movie I have liked the least this year. I can't think of another I disliked this much, so I think it goes without saying that I do not recommend this movie for rental or to go see this weekend. I think this movie is a huge pile of trendy crap that will never be in the same room as the book at which it is named.
Wow, harsh! I was really looking forward to this movie too. Was it really that bad?
Thinking back about it now, I still think it was the worst movie I have seen this year, I asked monkeyjenn what she would have given it and she said. “A 1, and that is only because I thought the CG was good, if it wasn’t, a zero”