Not a family film. Don't bring the adults.

Rating: 3/10 (17 April 2006)

A trite, and painfully stretched-out, melange of hackneyed fantasy nonsense.
The special effects are the usual high quality ILM fare - alas they're the same old ILM fare. Nothing seemed particularly novel or groundbreaking. (Though the morphing was fairly well done, certainly no joins visible, and the animated tree had an excellent organic feel to it.) Alas the film seemed to exist pretty much for no other reason than to tie a sequence of otherwise unconnected visual special-effects 'jokes' together.
Acting was fairly unexceptional - the actors themselves were generally of a peerless standard, in their particular genre. However, it seems they were all told to just play their traditional genre. I could see the fast show residues in places, die hard ones elsewhere, and was genuinely expecting to see spilt cups of tea and perhaps reference to antiques elsewhere.
John Williams needs to stop creating scores using copy-paste from his older ones too.