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Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl

2020

Kenneth Branagh

Ferdia Shaw, Lara McDonnell, Judi Dench, Josh Gad ...

3.8

1,758

Fantasy. Adventure Artemis Fowl the second, a young Irish criminal mastermind, kidnaps the fairy LEPrecon officer Holly Short for ransom to fund rescuing his father. Once a transaction is made, they go onto a hunt for the evil pixie Opal Koboi and rush to save Artemis Fowl senior from the Arctic.

	Media	Author	Review
		Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"[It] has no reason to exist, other than to spawn sequels (...) Once a portrayer of Hamlet’s antic disposition, Branagh has made a movie that is simply antic."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"A movie with a loosely defined hero, an even vaguer villain and a whole lot of things flying at the screen"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] covers everything in a blanket of bland that suggests the dull juvenilia in the film versions of Percy Jackson rather than the vigorous battle between good and evil that marked the novels (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Scott Mendelson Forbes	"One of the worst YA fantasy movies ever (...) brings to mind the very worst of the post-Harry Potter wave of failed YA franchises"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Neither Colin Farrell nor Dame Judi Dench can save Kenneth Branagh's senseless fantasy epic (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Not entirely foul, but a charmless chore (...)It wants to captivate you with magic and bizzaro creatures in the Harry Potter"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"[It] lacks an effective star, good effects, general coherency, and any sense of actual magic"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Images and characters bounce around like shapes on a screensaver and only McDonnell and Gad’s performances have any fizz. This is a YA-franchise by numbers (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Steve Pond The Wrap	"The film moves through burnished, glowing interiors (...) It’s as if the director is hoping that a little restraint and beauty can hide some of the silliness, which of course it can’t"
		Huw Fullerton Radio Times	"Featuring stilted performances, a rushed plot and some inexplicable changes to the source material, Artemis Fowl is far from the magical adventure many were hoping for (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Rosie Fletcher Den of Geek	"Colorful, kinetic, and highly cinematic with several rollicking set pieces (...) As enjoyable escapism"
		Roxana Hadadi AV Club	"The only interesting thing about this irritatingly smug and cheaply campy adaptation is how uninterested it is in its own source material (...) At best, Artemis Fowl can be bizarrely cheesy"
		Pat Brown Slant	"A CGI orgy that goes nowhere (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"It took 20 years for an 'Artemis Fowl' movie to come out, and now that it’s here, the film itself feels like it’s in a hurry to be over already (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"

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