You like it or you don't, it's as simple as that

Rating: 8/10 (9 January 2009)

I think this is the best adaptation of the book that anyone could ever make. If you really want to start comparing both, the book will always be better than the movie, since it's always difficult to respect the chronology of all events. The good sides of the movie are that it's really well shot. The acting, stunt scenes, special effects and captions are quite wonderful. Also, most of the dialogs were said as they were in the book, and most of the events are truthful to the ones in the book. Plus, the music choices are perfect, as well as the original score composed by Carter Burwell. The downsides are, perhaps, that the movie is too fast and it was hard for most people who hadn't read the book to understand it (wasn't the case for me, and I didn't read the book before seeing the movie but after I had seen it, but well). Of course it's cheesy, it's a movie based on a teen novel. Most people rate it badly because they didn't like the story/book, and that makes perfect sense, but I still don't get it how it didn't beat Narnia and the Prince Caspian, which I'm sure the book behind was great but I slept for like half of the movie. You like it or you don't, it's as simple as that. I liked it.