We made my 7 year old to finish the book before we watched the movie. Turns out it didn't make a difference. About 5 mins in he turns to me and says "but this didn't happen in the book!"
Aside from the complete disrespect to the source material, the film was just awful. My wife turned to me at the end and said "that was freakin terrible."
I felt nothing for the characters, the story was jittery and Artemis Fowl did nothing. Josh Gad narrates (way too much) the opening and tells us how amazing and dangerous Artemis (the son) is ... we never see that. Artemis' parting shot "I'm a criminal mastermind." {everyone watching the movie} ahhhh how????
The villain of the movie also did nothing, showed no motive and gave no reason to care why the Fowl's would come after them in a sequel (pray there is not one!)
I honestly don't know what else to say about this. How did they go so wrong?
Aside from the complete disrespect to the source material, the film was just awful. My wife turned to me at the end and said "that was freakin terrible."
I felt nothing for the characters, the story was jittery and Artemis Fowl did nothing. Josh Gad narrates (way too much) the opening and tells us how amazing and dangerous Artemis (the son) is ... we never see that. Artemis' parting shot "I'm a criminal mastermind." {everyone watching the movie} ahhhh how????
The villain of the movie also did nothing, showed no motive and gave no reason to care why the Fowl's would come after them in a sequel (pray there is not one!)
I honestly don't know what else to say about this. How did they go so wrong?