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

[greenfairy_87]

I am DYING at the Irish Times review

[also_loled_irl]

It added so much joy to my day omg

"Rarely in the history of cinema has so much tortured exposition failed so completely to explain such an undistinguished plot."

[drunkenclaudius]

[vvitchbaby]

it's been so long since i've read these, who is the big bad they're hinting at?? i can remember the main plot of what artemis did for each book but not who the actual bad guys were for them...

[sandstorm]

[Spoiler (click to open)] They combined the first two books and so Opal shows up

[vvitchbaby]

wow, I totally forgot about her. thanks!!

[ellehcimbelle]

WHAT

[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

[bloodbelieve]

I just read this one from the Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/artemis-fowl-review-disney-judi-dench-disney-adaptation-cast-director-a9558451.html

I can't get over this: Dame Judi Dench steps out of the shadows, clad in green leather like a post-apocalyptic citizen of Oz. She is Commander Julius Root, an elf of Irish fairytale made flesh. She’s also a cop. With a wisened growl, she faces her adversaries with a cry of, “Top o’ the morning”.

[missjersey]

I can't and I won't