I had no idea what I watched. Seldom one can expect movies remain much faithful to the book, but so much personality changes in the lead?! Without the genius criminal mastermind theme, this is just another fantasy children movies packed CGI. I expected more of Branagh. But consider how long it took to finally get movie made, maybe the aim was "something is better than nothing"?
"don't lose humor!" is such an irony. this film is made deliberately painful to watch; the dry dry dry comedy only channels the incurable alienation beneath. ugh