Don't listen to the critics who some I think have an agenda against Disney and blockbuster movies. Even my 18 and 20 year old thought it was better then what critics are portraying it to be. Great hero and heroine scifi fantasy story written 100 years ago brought to the big screen in a huge way. Seeing it in IMAX 3D was an added bonus. There's humor, action, battles, visuals, plot (yes I said plot), and underlying villiany from an otherworld entity. I hope to see it again today in 2D. Go to this movie. Show Stanton and Disney doing these types of movie projects are worth every penny spent. Thank you Andrew and Disney for buying the rights to the first three stories. Can't wait for number 2 in the series.
As a 40+ year old mother of a teenage daughter who one day told me I needed to read Twilight, I have to say I really enjoyed the movie as well as the book. Movies based on books can often be a disappointment so I did not expect much going into it but I was plesently surprised. I first saw it opening weekend and I have to say the audience kind of took away from the movie with some of their antics. But I recently took a friend who is a vampire movie lover to the movie one quiet tuesday morning when hardly anyone was out and found the movie "better" the second time!!
This was a good entertaining movie. Much like Batman Begins, it was a movie that tells the beginning of the tale of Iron Man played by Robert Downey Jr. My only negative was one of the bad guy was the cliched greedy corporate excutive Obadiah played by Jeff Bridges. I like it when writers think out of the box and not go with worn out themes. But other than that, it was a great movie and I would recommend it.