Advantages: A fun, well told family adventure Disadvantages: Underdeveloped characters. Understated ending.
and buffoonery. Mayor Cole is a shifty, self-serving and patronising sort whose outwardly benevolent façade never really convinces. Honourable mentions should also go to Liz Smith (as Lina?s grandma )of Royle Family fame), a nice little cameo by Martin Landau (who I always remember for his parts as Commander John Koenig in Space 1999 and Rollin Hand in the original Mission Impossible), who plays Sul - Doon?s mentor in the pipeworks, and finally Toby Jones as the odious little mayor?s aide, Barton Snode. Loris ?Barrow? Harrow is also excellently played by Hollywood veteran Tim Robbins, and although his screen time is limited, he lends a certain quality and gravitas to proceedings.
THOUGHTS ON THE FILM
The film is based on a book for ?young adults? of the same name by JeanneDuPrau. As I have not read the book, I can?t possibly comment on how ...
Advantages: Good initial concept, musical score ok, but that is about it. Disadvantages: Poor script, unimaginative, very slow with little to keep you engrossed.
***City of Ember (2008)***
I was looking forward to seeing this film, because I had seen the trailer at the cinema and it seemed quite exiting. I rented it from Lovefilm and it was just the film - no extras. I actually watched it twice as my children weren't able to watch it together. I have to say straight off, it didn't get better. Overall, I was very disappointed, because it had the potential to be good, but I feel it failed to deliver.
***Plot***
The basic idea is that the end of the world as we know it has come and an underground city is created to try to save a selected few, so than mankind can survive. We find out that people will have to live underground for around 200 years. A box detailing what has happened and what has to be done to reach the surface, is handed to a mayor for safe keeping. No one living underground ...
CITY OF EMBER.
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A surprisingly good film despite the dodgy ending.
The world finally has gone to war, a war that will destroy mankind. But some clever scientists have foreseen this and built a hidden city deep, deep below the earth where some survivor can rebuild and live until it is safe to reemerge into the open Sky's and repopulate the earth.
They hide the route out from the city inside a box which is then locked for 200 years, however the box gets forgotten about over the huge time span and nobody is there when it clicks open.
The city is running out of power, water and food, well at least it seems to be low on food, Bill Murray is however not all he seems.
We meet Doon and Lina who will set out on a great adventure to solve and find a way back to the surface.
This film is fairly good, the acting is ...
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EAN
9780552552387
Type
Fiction
Genre
Children's
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Title
The City of Ember
Author
Jeanne DuPrau
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Many hundreds of years ago the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked - but now the storerooms are almost out of food crops are blighted corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all - the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be engulfed by darkness-But when two children Lina and Doon discover fragments of an ancient parchment they begin to wonder if there could be a way out of Ember. Can they decipher the words from long ago and find a new future for everyone? Will the people of Ember listen to them?
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