Ahhhh, a nice, cool movie theater is just the place to be on a 90+ degree day.
It’s always somewhat difficult to see a movie when you’ve read the book. On the one hand, it’s nice to know all the details of the story that a movie can’t put in, but on the other hand it’s disappointing when changes are made to the basic story. In this case, relatively few changes were made, and it was easy to see why they made the changes they did due to time constraints.
Things I loved: Charlie Cox as Tristan and Claire Danes as Yvaine. Very well suited for the roles. I also loved Michelle Pfeiffer for about 3/4 of the movie. She is so beautiful and does a great job, but, and I can’t really put my finger on it, sometimes she irritates me. Don’t know why. The ghost brothers were hilarious and great.
Things I didn’t like: Victoria’s character at the end of the movie vs. the book; Tristan has a step mother and sister (absent in the movie) in the book who dearly love him; and the length of time–many months in the book vs. one week in the movie–that Tristan was gone from Wall.
All in all, the movie was great and was much funnier than the book. I’m glad the movie was something my teenaged boys could see (though there was still some objectionable content). I would like for them to wait a few years before reading the book.
Rating: A
