Another movie for the age of "Believe."

Rating: 1/10 (27 November 2004)

If I see one more movie that tells me to "Believe..." I swear... I am going to... STOP BELIEVING IN FAIRIES! And if that leads to the death of a fluttering flickering light somewhere, well then so be it. (SPOILER ALERT) Bogus from the first stodgy poorly lit frame to the last -- bogus with its clunky plastic-masked sprites dancing around an astro-turfed fantasy wonderland -- bogus from the waste of Julie Christie as a trumped-up cliché of an antagonist to that first little cough that as always in any movie set before about 1925 tells us THIS CHARACTER WILL DIE... bogus from the clunky line of dialogue that tells us that the boy hasn't shed a tear for his father's death to the copious tears that we just KNOW he is going to shed by the end of the film... I wanted a good cry and all I got was a good snark -- for that, I could have gone to see Alexander!