People raved about this in middle school

Rating: 6/10 (24 December 2013)

Now don't get me wrong! I'm not saying that only kids like this movie! It's just that when this movie came out (well when I heard of it) I was in like 8th grade. Anyways, all through out high school my friends would constantly praise this movie and finally (now that I'm 19) I decided to actually watch it.
I was disappointed.
Maybe it was just hyped up so much for me that I was too critical. Anyway, I felt like the fairy tale element should have been explored more and that I felt absolutely nothing for the characters. In the movie we learn next to nothing about them
I also didn't like the little girls character whose name I cant even remember and I literally just got done watching this movie. She seemed a bit flat to me. Like Some pretty tragic things were going on around her through out the whole movie and she was just there. Especially, the whole thing with her ma.
Hands down best character was Mercedes and the Captain. They had dimensions.
For some reason I wanna watch Never Ending Story