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City of Ember (2008)Rating: 2 1/2 Stars (out of 4)'Ember' Is the NightBy Jeffrey M. Anderson
Screenwriter Caroline Thompson -- who adapted Jeanne Duprau's 2003 young adult book -- usually has a flair for fantasy, having scripted Edward Scissorhands and directed a good television update of Snow White (2001). But director Gil Kenan (Monster House) only seems interested in getting in and back out again, rampaging right over the set design as well as several logic holes (the movie never establishes how much each of the characters is supposed to know). Kenan assembles a dream cast, including a snarky, pot-bellied Murray, a crazy-haired Martin Landau, sturdy Tim Robbins, Toby Jones, loony Mary Kay Place and Marianne Jean-Baptiste, but leaves them stranded among the half-conceived sets. No one is ever fully transported anywhere, and that unfortunately includes the audience. DVD Details: Fox's 2009 DVD is pretty low-rent. It comes with a batch of trailers and some optional language tracks and subtitles and that's it. Not even a featurette about "creating the city of ember." With: Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Toby Jones, Mary Kay Place, Marianne Jean-Baptiste |
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