The Good: Talking warrior polar bears!! The acting was fairly good (I was very impressed with the main girl, Dakota Blue Richards) and they nailed the look of the book's world.
The Bad: The story is ultra-condensed. Strong bonds of trust and friendship are instantly formed while major plot points just keep coming. By the end, you really aren't sure what you just saw, but you get the feeling that it wasn't really worth it.
The Ugly: Um, definitely not Eva Green. She's amazingly pretty.
Points Pondered
- Has Sam Elliott ever played a non-cowboy?
- For a moment at the beginning, I thought they were going to pull a Dune and spend 10 minutes explaining the back story. Probably wouldn't have hurt too much, though.
- I doubt the usefulness of the majority of the symbols on the compass. Either way, anytime they were used to answer/asked a question, it seemed like a serious stretch.
- Having a constant animal companion acting as your soul would be pretty sweet, but would you get made fun of for having a stupid one? Like a duckbilled platypus? Wait, I take that back - that would be AWESOME. Still, what if you were super-evil and ended up with a koala?
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