Review Roundup for 2020's Most Anticipated Movie, "Artemis Fowl"

[sandstorm]

Artemis Fowl review: An elf and safety nightmare https://t.co/bHyKd9j6Ba
- Angle News (@angnwz) June 11, 2020

• Some of Book!Artemis comes through, sometimes it's this completely 'nice' movie version.
• The acting is fine though.

Currently sitting pretty at 31 on Metacritic 😳 and 15% on Rotten Tomatoes 😩

Comments

[yussamahal]

Isn't this based on a book where the main character is [Spoiler (click to open)]a rich asshole who's pissed he's as rich as he's supposed to, kidnaps a girl and asks for ransom?

I read that the movie made the Artemis fella sympathetic and changed the whole premise of the book.

[doriiansz]

yikes

[vvitchbaby]

It's been a while since I've read them so I'm skimming the wiki as i type, but [SPOILER] he wants to restore the family fortune (which i think he only lost in trying to find his father?) but also wishes for his mother's insanity (as a result of her husband's death) to be cured. but yes, he kidnaps a fairy (who in the book is an adult) to hold her for ransom for both the money and to get the wish.

[ellehcimbelle]

he wants to steal the gold to find his missing father and wants a fairy to grant him a wish so his sick mother gets better

emmh...

[yussamahal]

The Siege of Fowl Manor took place during the first Artemis Fowl novel in which Artemis Fowl II and Domovoi Butler kidnapped and held Captain Holly Short for ransom, demanding one ton of 24 carat gold, in small, unmarked ingots.

[queenursula]

He’s a huge asshole in the first book. He gets better in the sequels though. There’s some time travel in a later book and his reaction to his younger self is “Was I really that obnoxious?”

[yussamahal]

And that would've been more interesting than having a likeable character form the getgo.