HUGE disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (28 December 2010)

I am watching this as I type and can only say it is an abomination. When I was a teacher I read this excellent Roald Dahl story to my class of 8 year olds every year and it was loved by all of them, so much so that I sometimes had to read it twice to the same class within the year. My beef(s) with this film are as follows 1. This movie bore little resemblance to the book apart from the names of the characters. 2. The whole thing was americanised. 3. This was sit-com material. 4. It was boring as hell. Things I liked were as few and far between I enjoyed the sound of Clooney's voice and Meryl's too, but they should have been given a much better script. I like quirky and have no real problems with creative adaptations but this was poor on almost every level. Wes Anderson should be ashamed of himself.