John Carter Reviews: Movieline posts article saying consensus is emerging that John Carter is a “flawed but worthwhile epic”
Negative speculation and prognostication has been brewing for months for Disney’s sci-fi actionerJohn Carter thanks to dismal tracking and rumors of bloated budgets, but Disney’s finally released their review embargo for the March 9 would-be blockbuster. So what’s the early buzz from thefirst critiques of Andrew Stanton‘s take on the Edgar Rice Burroughs saga, about a Civil War veteran named John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) who lands in the middle of a civil war on Mars?
Given the naysaying hype, the first batch of reviews are surprisingly… positive. Well, mixed positive, for the most part — critics agree on many of the film’s strengths, from the well-crafted CG world of Barsoom (that’s Mars, to us humans) to the spirited action sequences Pixar veteran Stanton has pulled off. (Look for Movieline’s John Carter review to post next week.)
“Some of the stuff that Stanton pulls off in John Carter is mind-blowing,” enthuses Badass Digest’s Devin Faraci. “There are a few sequences that feel simply classic, like we’ll be referring to them for years to come. There’s one scene, where John Carter stands alone (well, with Woola) against a rampaging army of nine foot tall, four armed Tharks, that is an all-timer.”
Speaking of those Tharks — the four-armed green Martian warriors that first enslave John Carter and force him to fight for them — Stanton’s CG background directing Finding Nemo and Wall-Eseems to have helped him create believable, dimensional characters with a combination of CG animation and performance capture.
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Honestly, the book itself was a lot like that. So much going on in the story, that it was a bit tiring to read at times, though enjoyable. Such as the lengthy airship battle after the “wedding crashing” which I thought was the climax til I kept reading. Then it turned out that not even the airship battle was the climax, it keeps going. Other parts of the books honestly seemed to drag on without getting to the point. But all in all, it’s still one of my favorite books. That’s because every flaw is surpassed by it successes. No author, or movie director for that matter is perfect. This review lacks that, unfortunately. That yes, it probably has flaws, like most, even the greatest of movies. But does its strong points make up for it, or not? Star Wars had flaws, but it’s memorable moments is what made it a classic. Just like John Carter. So lets see this movie. We won’t regret it.