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Thankfully, this is not a remake/reboot, but a perfectly good addition to the original franchise.

I'd been waiting all year for this one and the result of built-up expectations usually means the movie will miss the mark because a fan will have unreasonable expectations. Fortunately, this movie seems to deliver. My wife (not a big fan of the series) enjoyed it, seemed to enjoy it almost as much as I did.

This movie pays deep homage to the original without ruining any cannon, the connections run deep and it is obvious that great care was taken to keep deep connections to the original story, both intent and feel.

I was really impressed with casting -the young girl was perfectly cast and played her role flawlessly.

If you enjoyed the original movie, this is a must see.

I always like to say something good about a movie -every movie has at least something positive, after all. The animation was acceptable. This is not a ringing endorsement since computers, software and those skilled at working with them should be able to bring something visually decent to the screen. As a story, it was difficult to follow at times, but if you can stomach the boredom, it is not a bad story. Worth it? Hardly (and I didn't have to pay to see it). It is not the worst film ever brought to screen (never understood those comments) but the goal was supposed to include giving a better, newer perspective on the islamic culture. It fails miserably at this, and in truth it just was not a very good story. Maybe it loses something in the translation (culturally speaking) but while I love animated movies, this one will find no place in my library.

I read this book 3 times, my wife never read it. I was interested in seeing the movie adaptation but a little worried that it would spoil the story (as movie adaptations often do) but quite the contrary, this was actually a very well done adaptation. Both my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it (she would rate it higher -I only gave it an 8 because of certain things I'd hope would be included, were not (no spoilers here.) -Let me say that the book was a bit overly detailed in areas to explain situations, but the movie did an excellent job of getting around it -is very entertaining and didn't have any "dull" spots. The movie is set in "near future" which makes it pretty easy to buy into the science and ideas (a nice change for a sci-fi movie). I will purchase this when it comes available on blu-ray. Matt Damon was perfectly cast as Mark Watney -clearly, he was a fan of the book (just going by the excellent portrayal). Its definitely worth the view. Probably my favorite this year.