Eragon Review

Let me start off by saying that I fully understand that there is no way humanly possible to fit every single detail from that book (and a lot of other books) into a feature-length movie. It just can't happen. Now, Peter Jackson (the director of the Lord of the Rings movies) and his screenwriters did an absolutely phenomenal job adapting from the books to create the movies. Did he leave parts out of the movies that were in the books? Absolutely. And that's okay, because the movies at least did the books justice and would have made Tolkien proud. The movie Eragon, however, does not even come close to doing the book justice and I bet Christopher Paolini wanted to cry himself to sleep after watching it. I know I would have if I had been the author.

Okay...so the movie started out decently, but went downhill fast. There was absolutely no character development whatsoever. You just kind of meet this farm boy and his family, and then it goes into the next scene. That happened throughout the entire movie. If you hadn't read the book, you would probably be lost as to what was even going on. They go from scene to scene without even hardly explaining anything, and Eragon isn't nearly as deep of a character as he is in the book. You don't get the chance to "bond" with the characters, so when someone dies in the movie it's kind of like "okay....next!" Seriously...they should have and could have done a much better job than they did with the character development.

They left out so many parts of the book that the movie seems choppy and has little depth, and most of the parts they actually included were altered in some way. I bet the people who made this movie read the Spark Notes version of the story and didn't even bother to read the book. That's how bad it was compared to the book.

If I had to come up with something positive, Saphira (the dragon) was pretty cool. That's about it, though.

I won't post spoilers here, but trust me...you would be much better off reading the book instead of seeing the movie. It wasn't worth the $7 per ticket my husband and I paid to see it!