I took my 13 year old son to see it, personally I liked it much better than the latest Potter movie. The Potter series is now fully adrift without a rudder.
I'm a big fan of the Dark is Rising series. They overdid it with special effects in the way only Hollywood can do. When one special effect is good, then 100 must be better??? I could just see the producer saying, "we really need to spice that bit up a bit, throw in some more Hitchcockian Crows!" Not really in this case no, is the answer and too much is really just too much. Still they did manage to capture some of the quiet majesty, and a bit of fun. I thought the movie as a movie for the pre-teen set was actually not bad, for an action fantasy flick. Not the greatest but then not terrible either.
Then again perhaps Susan Cooper's fine work deserves better. I don't think you will see anymore of these made into movies, as the books are fun, but they follow a linear sequence in same way the Harry Potter series does. More like a series of somewhat disconnect adventures.
Although JK obviously borrowed more than a little from this series. Or perhaps it served as her inspiration.
I'm a big fan of the Dark is Rising series. They overdid it with special effects in the way only Hollywood can do. When one special effect is good, then 100 must be better??? I could just see the producer saying, "we really need to spice that bit up a bit, throw in some more Hitchcockian Crows!" Not really in this case no, is the answer and too much is really just too much. Still they did manage to capture some of the quiet majesty, and a bit of fun. I thought the movie as a movie for the pre-teen set was actually not bad, for an action fantasy flick. Not the greatest but then not terrible either.
Then again perhaps Susan Cooper's fine work deserves better. I don't think you will see anymore of these made into movies, as the books are fun, but they follow a linear sequence in same way the Harry Potter series does. More like a series of somewhat disconnect adventures.
Although JK obviously borrowed more than a little from this series. Or perhaps it served as her inspiration.