Rating of
1.5/4
Basically, Fantasy Garbage, with terrible writing
Tino - wrote on 05/22/08
This film wasn't nearly as bad as expected, but it still couldn't deliver. The lead character 'Jared Grace' played by the young Freddie Highmore, is a young annoying prick-brat who hates anything that doesn't go his way. In typical non-original (yet usually satisfying) manner, he is suddenly whisked off into a new great world of fantasy. The story isn't original at all, but it does decent for the genre. Creature designs aren't imaginitve, but are well-rendered. This could have been a lot better if the ending wasn't so forced and simple.
