The Seeker - The Dark is Rising
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Movie Reviews of The Seeker - The Dark is Rising
Movie Review: The seeker...
Summary: 4 Stars
Went seeking an adventurous kids movie and we found one. It is a modest adaptation of a series of books by Susan Cooper. Of course the books are better but for entertainment sake it gets the job done.
A decent movie the whole family can watch together. There are a few scary parts for younger children but even they aren't toooooo bad. I am just judging this movie for the movie itself. My son read the books and told me plainly that the movie doesn't really go by the books and should be called something else. So if you have read the book don't expect much from the movie.
Movie Review: disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
Save your time and your money. This is nothing like the book.
And badly made as well.
Movie Review: Not as bad as I was expecting
Summary: 3 Stars
Despite the horrible reviews I've read, I added this movie to my netflix list. As a bug fan of the Dark is Rising sequence, I knew there would be plenty of disappointing plot changes. For about the first 20 minutes, I continued to compare the book and movie and found the changes not necessary. Finally I decided to give the rest of the movie a fair chance and pretend the book and movie were totally unrelated. From that viewpoint, the movie isn't a total failure.Some of the acting was off, I was most disappointed with the character Merriman. I'd say this movie was average, certainly better than I expected.Movie Review: please let them stop here and call it a failure.
Summary: 1 Stars
This is quite possibly the most sheet adaptation of a book I've ever seen. The book was an amazing piece of work, showing the coming of age of a boy whose soul was ancient; there was no angst, no complaining, no teenaged "but I'm just a kid!" stuff. It was Good Versus Evil, and Evil was beautiful and tricky and powerful; and Good was sometimes hard and dangerous, but also as bright as the sun. The movie is a rip-off sucking onto the "teenaged boy with magical powers" theme, hoping to snag some customer cash. Avoid it. Movie Review: Not a movie to strain yourself seeking
Summary: 3 Stars
I rented this DVD and allowed the replay to run it's normal course. I was not bored but the movie was not anything to shout about. Basically it is an adventure movie best enjoyed probably by Harry Porter fans. A seeker to return the power of the light? 'let there be dark' is a corny idea but certainly not novel!