Sunday, August 2, 2009

Green Lantern: First Flight

I'll keep this short and sweet.

It's not a bad film, but not that great either.

It commits the cardinal sin of requiring a little too much previous knowledge of the characters to be newbie friendly while altering the characters and circumstances to a degree that some purists may be annoyed. For instance, we see Arisia and she's featured quite prominently in the final battles... but I don't recall her ever being introduced by name.

Me? I wasn't annoyed. But I know quite a few Boodikka fans who won't be happy to see her transformed into a softer-featured, softer-spoken character. And this is just me personally... but I've always imagined Sinestro as being too classy to use the phrase "I own your ass."

I'd say it is worth a rental but not a purchase.

2 comments:

  1. Interesting review. I liked it more than you did, but i agree about the Sinestro line; I kind of chuckled when I heard the silliness of it.
    The lack of naming characters was actually refreshing to my brother-in-law who is not a fan of GL or comics. He actually said "Its nice that they focussed on a few characters and just accepted that there were more lantern's around, like the squirrel guy."
    Still ... Victor Garber was so awesome as Sinestro.

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  2. Oh, the voice work WAS good.
    And make no mistake - I did enjoy it. Just little details bugged me, but not enough to get outraged about it like, oh say, reading any issue of Green Arrow/Black Canary.

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