It was actually a little slow for what I was expecting, which was good considering we were sitting in the 3rd row of a packed theater. Johnny Depp was terrific, but I think the script could have used a little more work.
Great film, great story, and I was really impressed with the 3D version. Carl can teach us some good life lessons in this movie too! And, I wish I had Dug's collar for our dog...
With the limited budget of this movie (compared to most) they did a good job of putting together a 2 hr movie out of a 500+ page book. I liked the choices they made with adapting the script from the book, I only wish they'd had more time/money to fill in some of the story for the people who didn't read the book. Also a few of the special effects of course would have looked better with some more $$ :) But I really liked the characters and all in all I was not disappointed.