Great book, great movie

Rating: 10/10 (8 September 2008)

I could easily put this movie in my top ten list. It's one of the few ones I have ever bought the first day it came out. , the movie, is an enchanting story with humor, suspense, and love. You can't really do wrong with it. I bought the book this past week and read it in one day. I was shocked at how different the book is. Now I'm not pulling the overused "book is so much better then the movie" comment but they are black and white compared to each other. There is no such thing as Captain Shakespeare in the book, there is a boat but the scene is only two pages long. The King's seven sons and the witch as well play a small roll in the book. I understand why that they had to spruce up the script because it would have been a pretty anti-climatic movie. I wonder though if Neil Gaimon was okay with how the movie turned out. Like I said I absolutely loved both, but am curiously how they ended up so different from each other. Does anyone know anything about it?