I've never seen a movie made out of a book this badly. Out of a 250 page book they managed to take 4 elements to make this 100 minute film.
It's a wonder they put in the 3 title "figures". And even then they changed their stories completely. The only other thing from the book they squeezed in unchanged was the black and yellow striped lighthouse.
How can you make the Fliwatüüt run on gas. Lose the whole school work plot line completely and still give it the same name?
Instead it now is a story with evil corporations, bad guys that are the laughing stock and fart (and other bodily function) jokes.
A story about 2 boys helping each other and solving puzzles became a story about 2 outcasts against an evil corporations and their minions who want to take robot alien technology.
Modernising a book from the 70s is one thing. Destroying people's childhoods is another thing and exactly what this movie does. It's barely worth the one star I have to give!
Me and my mother went in happy for an opportunity to relive good times and instead got cheated out of a lot of money for this drivel of a movie.
It's a wonder they put in the 3 title "figures". And even then they changed their stories completely. The only other thing from the book they squeezed in unchanged was the black and yellow striped lighthouse.
How can you make the Fliwatüüt run on gas. Lose the whole school work plot line completely and still give it the same name?
Instead it now is a story with evil corporations, bad guys that are the laughing stock and fart (and other bodily function) jokes.
A story about 2 boys helping each other and solving puzzles became a story about 2 outcasts against an evil corporations and their minions who want to take robot alien technology.
Modernising a book from the 70s is one thing. Destroying people's childhoods is another thing and exactly what this movie does. It's barely worth the one star I have to give!
Me and my mother went in happy for an opportunity to relive good times and instead got cheated out of a lot of money for this drivel of a movie.