Dear, Greg
Follow the link below and watch the trailer (I know you've seen the trailer before) THEN read why the trailer was incredibly misleading & then never, NEVER write a review of a movie by just watching the trailer.
http://www.modernman.com/10-incredibly-misleading-movie-trailers/10/
What the Trailer Promises: A magitastical adventure as two youngsters come of age in a fairyland forest inhabited by all manners of mystical beast!
What the Movie Delivers: Two unhappy kids with overactive imaginations briefly imagine they live in an alternate world. Then one dies.
(The rest of you who missed Kirschling's non-review of a very good interpretation of the Newbery Award winning book can check it out here: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20011869,00.html It is the textbook example of a professional writer/reviewer tossing off a review without consulting the source material. Jeff Jensen gave the DVD of the same movie in the same magazine a slightly higher grade {though he didn't give the two stars Anna Sophia Robb & Josh Hutcherson the credit they deserved for their great performances} but he obviously DID watch the movie.)
YOu can just watch the misleading trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SvqEIKP4t8
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