Drivel

Rating: 3/10 (8 October 2010)

Although Peter Jackson is a talented man, his talent was clearly subsumed by moronity. But have to give the progenitors of this nonsense credit, it's an audience pleaser, if you're under 20. The lead actor was good. The animation was OK, but hardly original. It was a combination of Transformers and Dead Man's Chest, both superior to this attempt. And the music was a limp attempt to copy Hans Zimmer. The biggest problem? The immaturity of the whole thing. I don't need to see ANOTHER movie with mechanical creatures, mechanical acting and a mechanical plot probably written by a computer. People who have allowed computers to become their promary mode of communication and have little true interaction with other human beings, except on Facebook may think this is great writing. It's not. I see that the movie got a very high rating. If it's a rating based on Video game plots, acting and "human" emotions, fine. If it's based on an art form which really represents the classic elements of great writing, it's woefully lacking. I gave it 3 stars for the prawns, who seemed more "human" than the humans.