Destroyed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Destroyed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Some time ago I blogged on how I loved to watch a cartoon on Nickelodeon, http://jessica-sweet-tv.blogspot.com/2006/03/nice-cartoon.html

I never talked about the cartoon again, even when I saw the full 3 series (called books) and that I absolutely love the history, enjoyed a great animation work, and was delighted with an excellent portrait of the characters and their personal growth.

Time later an announcement was made that a movie was to be made about the cartoon, a news received with a bit of joy, hope, and doubt (you know how sometimes going from TV to movies gives a not-so-good result)

The news on the movie started to flow, and since the start it caused a lot of negative feedback in all internet places regarding the cartoon, things like a dislike for the director, a controversy regarding casting, the forced inclusion of 3d, and many others. And finally when the movie when out to the movies, a lot of the reviews and critics said "bad movie", even some when to say "worst movie of the year"

Finally I went to see it a couple of weeks ago, and unfortunately, the movie is awful. Leaps in the history development that makes no sense, lot of bad and cliché dialog, an excessive use of voice-over narrative, terrible acting, action sequences with lousy choreography.

And I went to see it with an open mind, accepting the fact that they had to cut parts of the history (you have to put 10 hours of cartoons into a 2 hour movie), I could ignore all the minor details about changes (major characters not showing, different names to some main characters), and even forgive some bad acting due to some being kid actors, as long as the movie resulted in a minimally entertaining movie.

But here that was not, the result was a movie so badly executed, with so many time lost in repeating stuff, with scenes that had no connection to the history or the mood, with so many things that either see, hear or feel bad. I had no other option that to agree with most of the review, This movie stinks.


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Jessica Sweet