Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Alex

I reviewed it here. It's not great but it isn't terrible. It just is at the low end of the spectrum compared to the recent glut of fantasy adaptations.

I enjoyed it. My seven year old, who has read all the books, enjoyed it and tells me that much of the shtick in the movie is not in the books. My nearly five year old punted mid-film, albeit at an unexpected place.

Mr. Alex's review is wrong in that the movie does the entire five book series, not just the first book. There is, of course, a second series. I agree about the accents. I thought Freddie Highmore's first lines were decidedly English. Then mom was American. Then Freddie was American. Okay, we're in America. But it was fun.

[Alex]

Sorry, the press materials said it just did the first book. Not the first time they'd be wrong though.

The aunt who'd lived in the house all her life also had a reasonably strong accent as well.