An average movie

Honestly, I’m not really sure how I ended up watching this flick but I think I checked it out because Kenneth Branagh was involved. In fact, Branagh had actually a rather small part and the lead was played by the upcoming young actor Freddie Highmore. Basically, Highmore made this little known movie just between his two breakthrough performances in ‘Finding Neverland’ and ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. Eventually, even though it was nothing really amazing, I thought it was actually not bad at all and I thought it was fairly enjoyable. In fact, I thought that the concept was actually similar to ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’, it takes place during WWI and some kids are brought to the countryside to be spared from the war and they end up with some fantastic creature. So, obviously, the whole thing was nothing really original and the special effects were honestly rather pathetic but Eddie Izzard gave a very nice performance as the ‘It’ creature and, somehow, it was still a rather decent family feature. To conclude, even though it was not really ground-breaking, I still think it is worth a look, especially if you are looking for something to watch with your young children.

6/10