No surprises

Rating: 5/10 (6 February 2008)

I was looking forward to see this film six month before its release. I really like fantasy and fairy tales. When I watched this film I found it all right - it had a topic, nice dresses, decent actors and some nice CG - but something essential was missing. In the second half I was even bored and wondered how much longer this movie goes on. I am not in the movie business, so I don't really know, but I think the director's work was to blame. Neighter the hero nor the heroine was appealing for me, so I could not live the story with them. There was humor in the film, but it was pretty random: I did not know whether to laugh at certain comments, or take them seriously. Parts of the visual "world" was exceptionally magical, but it did not create a solid, homogeneous world like lets say Middle Earth in LOTR. It was not a bad try... but it fell to decent pieces, instead of forming a film.