Facile kaj rapide legebla ekzemplo de la “metropola fantazio”.

Mi povas rekomendi la libron por tiuj, al kiuj plaĉas la nuntempa ĝenro de “urba fantazio”. Ĝi ja estas sufiĉe interesa kaj nedemetebla rakonto.

There are two parallel stories, one pure-dee political and the other purely fantasy. The two stories, in fact, are not totally decoupled, and lead to a final contrast between the failure of the belief that the innocent exist for the rulers to exploit and the success of a recognition that a ruler exists for the people, whatever the price he or she must pay in the end.

The film was considerably better than I expected when I went into it.

I would say “rent it when it comes out on DVD,” but for the special effects you may want to have the wide-screen experience … once.

I went to see this film because the director decided to use Esperanto in it, to some small degree. I can’t think of any better reason for anyone to see it.

I think that the final plot twist worked fairly well in this film, given that everybody was waiting for it, because it didn’t telegraph itself.

I would like to make a couple of negative comments about this film, for the sake of objectivity, but you know what? I can’t think of any offhand.

By and large, this novel — which is about half the size of one of the main-series novels — is perhaps more interesting than the more recent novels in the series. I hate to say it, but to some extent the padding in the last third contributes to that.

All in all, a pleasant film — best of the three for CGI and cinematography, best of the three for those who enjoy darkness, certainly far more interesting than the first film, perhaps inferior to the second because of the abbreviation of certain parts.

Shrek 2 was made largely … hmm, because the original was so interesting and deserving of a sequel? No, apparently because the original made so much money and was therefore deserving of a sequel.

Ĉi tiu libro donas al ni entute 19 ekzemplerojn el la fabelaro de Miyazawa, tre diversajn.

In this film, Rasputin is somehow still alive, and working to call back a bunch of Narsty Old Elder Gods With Big Tentacles from their imprisonment in space.

Other reviewers would have had it that there should be at least a few people snoring, but there weren’t.

It would be easy to outline the plot, but really it doesn’t develop too much.

Definitely worth seeing!

Worth seeing. I’d go see it again even if I had to pay for it!

I doubt whether anybody who’s not an aficionado of the series would find these books particularly interesting, but four of them should be read by those who are fans.

An enjoyable movie, even if not completely faithful to the book. Perhaps, in fact, more enjoyable than the first movie in the series, despite being almost ten minutes longer.

A finely done movie, for Disney.

Catch it on USA every sunday evening at ten p.m.

It was an enjoyable and fast moving film — again in the tradition of the fictional British holding out indomitably against unspeakable odds.

Worth seeing on the wide screen. For that matter, worth seeing a second time on the wide screen. Maybe even a third — I haven’t quite decided yet.

This is a moderately worthy addition to a relatively small canon. It suffers a bit from being a spin-off, however.

En ĉi tiu libro, temas pri la dioj mem, tamen ne sen kelkaj anaĥronismaj komentoj fare de ili kaj de la verkinto.

Legebla. Ĉu leginda? Depende de la propra gusto.

In the end, I suspect that most people will watch this series more for Lex than for Clark and his powers or for the Smallville weirdness.

For those who have been annoyed by the way the series is going, I would say that this is definitely the best of the most recent three books, though certainly not up to one or two of the earlier ones.

Not a movie I expect to see again. Nor one I would particularly care to recommend to anybody else.

When I think about it, all the films in this genre that I can remember seeing seem to have taken place in New York. Howcum Denver or Sacramento never suffer from Satanic visitations???

This is a much better book than any of the earlier ones. But ultimately, like the others in this children’s series, it’s a book for grownups — far more so than its predecessors.

The plot doesn’t always hang together, but it is fun; and it’s nice to know that some people are able to find redemption, though the assumption that they can only do so late in life — which is here defined as forty years old — is a bit unsettling…