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It's a great movie based on (as far as I know) a pretty original idea, but as the heading suggests I don't really like the ending. Sure, after everything our new friends have been through they deserve a happy ending. I just don't buy the idea that during an eclipse it's "day and night at the same time". Okay, it is but for different reasons! It is day because the sun is high in the sky, and night because it is obscured. (Makes one wonder what would happen if our heroes went into a cave, doesn't it?) The only way the ending can work is if we assume that Etienne's transformations are controlled by the position of the sun, and Isabeu's by its light (or something else only the moon is big enough to block) - and why anyone would make a curse that complicated is pretty well beyond my comprehension.
Oh well. Apart from that I liked the movie, but it was perhaps a bit anticlimactic to have something as important as the breaking of the curse simply indicated by a character looking heavenwards and muttering "It is broken"...
It's a great movie based on (as far as I know) a pretty original idea, but as the heading suggests I don't really like the ending. Sure, after everything our new friends have been through they deserve a happy ending. I just don't buy the idea that during an eclipse it's "day and night at the same time". Okay, it is but for different reasons! It is day because the sun is high in the sky, and night because it is obscured. (Makes one wonder what would happen if our heroes went into a cave, doesn't it?) The only way the ending can work is if we assume that Etienne's transformations are controlled by the position of the sun, and Isabeu's by its light (or something else only the moon is big enough to block) - and why anyone would make a curse that complicated is pretty well beyond my comprehension.
Oh well. Apart from that I liked the movie, but it was perhaps a bit anticlimactic to have something as important as the breaking of the curse simply indicated by a character looking heavenwards and muttering "It is broken"...