Not a film for fans of the funny book...

Rating: 7/10 (25 February 2005)

...and not for film-goers that don't want to think.
People who read a funny book, who see a movie based on or inspired on it and who don't see the same thing and bitch about that fact just don't get it. Different media need different approaches. Their lack of vision blinds them, for instance, to the fact that this film that this film is well acted, with nice special effects and that it--unlike many other efforts--actually spent a few bucks on the screenplay. I just wish that they hadn't tried to stuff so much stuff into a single film; it could have easily been stretched out or even divided into a couple films. The music was nicely done, and the film well captured the spirit of the original.
Nope, it's not a classic, not the best film I've ever seen and not the worst. It was a decent entertainment that made me think for two hours that I had been dumped into a Vertigo comic book.