Disney, you can do better! I want to clarify that I did not read the book, nor do I intend to.
I only saw the movie, because it has the Disney stamp,
and I thought it was a good quality product ...
But but but ...
The good:
There are good things and many bad things with this movie.
The good thing is the CGI, well done, good quality, credible. Very beautiful landscapes of Ireland ... and end.
All good things end there.
The bad:
Everything that follows is for oblivion ...
The plot of this film hardly surpasses Velocipastor!
(and that's a very bad thing)
The story is very basic, and there are strange things in the concept: there are fairies ok, so far so good, but ..., far from what one might think or expect. These fairies are armed and militarized with whom we could never empathize. The script and dialogue cause a headache. They go from hate to love with very inconsistent dialogues. There are super forced scenes.
There are camera movements that give circles that make you dizzy, leave the camera still for the love of God! We already know they have the software to rotate the scene!
And there are parts where everything is stirred in a (literal) whirlpool, which directly understands nothing of where the characters are.
Several of the adult actors are of great renown and career, but they have really been wasted, sunk into small roles and making a fool of themselves.
And about the character of the boy Artemis, it is not an original concept at all,
it's like a weird mix of Harry Potter with the guys from Narnia and spiced up with a little Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids,
but Artemis is much more insolent and emboldened than all of them together, I find it hard to empathize with the child, who never doubts himself (and is 12 years old) or is afraid of anything, does not respect the elderly and mocks everyone. This Artemis is arrogant and is not a role model for my children.
Conclusion:
I do not recommend it!
(except you're 3 years old, so you wouldn't be reading this)
Disney, you can do better!