Honestly.... I liked it! Probably more than liked it. I saw the trailer for this one before I watched it and I thought I was going to dislike it. But the movie hooked me in pretty early and it just became better and better... Except for the ending, but that could have been A LOT worse! So good on you movie!
The story... It's a little confusing on where everything takes place, but I think it takes place in ancient time in a world where magic excists, not in a magic world. First I thought it was going to be like Narnia from watching the trailer, a girl comes to a house and find a door to another world.... It's not. After her father dies she moves in with her uncle who is very rude to her, but still says that she belongs there. Confused she tries to find someone else in the house to talk to that hopefully isn't rude to her and can explain some weird things that are going on in the house. She finds a weird man, wizard, that tells her that the house and the land around it is cursed and only one girl can save it. She is that one girl.
What I liked about it is the characters. Some of you might say that they are bland and boring but I, who have seen characters that doesn't stay true to themselves, say that these characters are better than a lot better than those we see today. For one: they never break their character. If a character is brave, it's brave. If the character is the comic relief, it is. And if the character is a broody man who is rude, he is like that for the majority of the movie until the ending where he of course learns the lesson. I really liked that and that's what I'm talking about when I'm mentioning the characters in this blog. They need to stay true to... Yeah, you get the idea.
The other thing I liked was the story. It's a pretty simple one, but it doesn't really follow the old clichés. For one SPOILERS SPOILERS the thing that breaks the curse isn't love. The thing that creates the curse isn't just because people hate each other because of one thing that happened millions of years ago. I thought this was very refreshing, yes it happens more often that love doesn't save the day, but it was the "evil" part that this movie did great. Not the hero part... If you get my meaning. So that's what I really liked with the story.
NO SPOILERS HERE: Then there were these other things that I liked about the movie, like the music, the clothes, the setting, the lighting(they really thought about it!), the make up and small stuff like that. The majority of this movie I really liked, but the big things are the characters and the story so... Moving on to what I didn't like.
I didn't like the special effects for this one. Sure it looks nice, but at times it looks SO fake! But if you can overlook those things, that's just a minor problem and it just appears with two animals that they were using. Also I have to tell you they are using both a real dog and mix it with CGI so, there you have it! They were just half lazy.
And yeah, the ending was a little messy with everything, I think they didn't want to do the cliché but at the same time fool the audience that they were going to do the cliché so... It wasn't really clear on that part and I didn't really like SPOILER SPOILER that the little girl could save the day by herself. In the end everyone is gathered in the same spot and they're trying to break the curse. At first the little girl is trying to get everyone to apologize for their mistakes, but nobody wants to. So she then tries to do it herself and it works... I did not like that. Even though it was done with some thought in it, but yeah... Not enough I must say. Still, it kind of works.
And that's all I'm going to say about it! I recomend it. It was a fun watch and I found many characters I liked and loved to follow them on their journey and see them progress forward so... Yeah. It was a good movie! I will definitely see this movie again!
