Advantages: Caroline Goodall's okay as Ida Disadvantages: Dreadful acting and direction, a patronising script and a dearth of excitement
...they fall in with the Thief Lord and his kid gang, who live in an abandoned cinema and make their money from stealing to order. But the boys' aunt and uncle won't let them get away so easily. Soon they have a private detective on their trail and a whole heap of trouble brewing when they are asked to nick a wooden wing for a shadowy count.
Cornelia Funke's novel has already sold more than a million copies in the US alone. So you would have thought ... ...excitement of being in the Thief Lord's gang or any of the plentiful emotions felt by the kids. It tries to coast along on the age-old belief that adults simply don't understand kids and that they are the enemy. But the adults are all painted as such basic pantomime villains that they are totally unbelievable. This in turn renders the entire world of the film so unreal that you won't believe the kids need to retreat into a rich fantasy life to escape ...
afy9mab 24.11.2006
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