i_love_edward_cullen_13 I love this movie. After I saw it, I decided to read the book. I was glued to it. It took me less than 3 days to read it. The next day, I compared the book to the movie and realized that the movie hardly left anything out and stayed very loyal to the book. The movie is one of my very favorites and so is the book. I told my friend to read it and she loved it, too! I suggest to everyone to see the movie and read the book. This movie is amazingly detailed for having the low budget it did. The acting was wonderful and Cornelia Funke (the writer of the book) did a great job writing it. It is just the best. It is the perfect movie for the whole family.

liveingdeadgrl I am being nice with the 4, the movie was a horrible adaption from the book. The other characters where basically written out and parts that where suppose to be full of emotion and feeling, where dulled down and made to seem pointless. In the book when "Theif lord" betrays everyone, they hate him. In the movie it was all "oh who cares." I was more then slightly annoyed by this. None of the other characters seemed to have a story behind them when they all did. Hornet collected books,and the aunt and uncle where way worse then the movie would have led you to believe. Even the way that the two main characters got there was toned down, like it was no trouble at all. I would suggest that you read the book before giving this movie any type of high rating. I will guarantee you that, you will be just as angry as I was.

jettster2 I picked up this DVD because my son read the book and said it was great. So what happened??? Where was the character development? Where was the emotion? Where was the memorable score that left you humming when the film was over? The original story was good but you never really see the relationship develop between the kids, especially Scipio and Prosper. When they discover that Scipio is a bit of a fraud, nobody cares that much. When Scipio and Prosper have to make their decision regarding the merry-go-round, it just falls flat. No angst...little emotion...a disappointment. The whole thing seemed very amateurish to me. This film could have been better than Harry Potter or Narnia or Series of Unfortunate Events and should have been much better than it was. Instead, it never made it to the theaters. Hope they do better with Inkheart.

christianboy_dragon I feel bad for the person who wrote this story; she must be ashamed. The plot, story, the intristic sequence of events point to a great author who wrote an even greater story (O.K., maybe magical carousels are not your thing, but hey).But the filming, the time passage, the low-budget special effects...They all made it less than what it could have been.If you can view a movie and pay attention to the plot but not the special effects, this is a movie to watch then.I definitely liked Scipio, since he is covertly a cameo of Harry Potter; but in a more realistic point of view (i.e. he fails, he makes mistakes, but he still redeems them).In short, This is a movie to watch over the weekend when you have nothing else to do.