A fun flick--I don't get the critical drubbing

Rating: 7/10 (23 May 2006)

Yes, I read the book. And I enjoyed the film as much if not more. The movie dispenses with lots of unnecessary rambling and gets right to the action. Some have questioned why Langdon has become more of a skeptic of Teabing's theories, but it truly helps to balance out Dan Brown's story where everyone agrees on the same radical beliefs. It's not as much of a turn-off-your-brain action movie as National Treasure, but it's more satisfying. The art direction is superb and I had no problems with the acting. My only real problems came from the pedestrian dialogue. I know they were trying to stay true to a dumbly written book, but they could have spiced it up a bit and avoided a lot of the cheesiness.
If more critics were concerned with objectively looking at movies rather than selling a pithy blurb, this movie would be getting better ratings.