It followed the book very well. It was well done.

Rating: 8/10 (27 December 2001)

I read all of the books with great enthusiasm. The books were well written adventure stories. The movie followed the book quite well. Of course a lot had to be left out to keep the movie under 6 hours. The deletions were quite acceptable to me. There was not a major character or scene that was omitted. All movies made from books disappoint a little (or a lot); they just cannot be as good as a book by the nature of the medium (audio/visual representations)as opposed to the limitless possibilites of the human mind and imagination. Some movies do a very good job of representing what the mind imagined; this one did a fair to good job of it.
I would recommend the movie unequivocally.