Entirely too much CG-OYE!

Rating: 1/10 (25 February 2015)

A screaming, annoying and overacting brat, a has-been midget, and a woefully out of control dilettante teen try to make their way through two hours of a cgi festooned, badly made remake. Amazingly, as recently as only 20 years ago, these cheap directors would not have been able to take the easy way out and had to actually physically BUILD props and sets. Not so, these days. A crappy remake like this is as easy to spin off as a poor quality video game, and equally as profitable, even if it IS garbage. To quantify the rest of the movie, it is disconnected and grasping for a plot that was well established in the original film. To compensate, the movie is overloaded with over-exuberant extras throughout the contrived and flat script. In my opinion, the original film sticks far closer to the story as written by H.G. Wells, and has far more interesting special effects. It probably had a far better critical response, as well. A puff of John Williams' over-inflated fart gas does not make it any fluffier.