The Tale of Despereaux
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 
1:04 pm ()
When I first heard The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo was being turned into an animated movie I was worried. Seems I had good reason to worry. They say right at the beginning of the movie it is “based on the book The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo” well it should say “this lame movie is very loosely based on an awesome book by Kate DiCamillo.” Despereaux is very cute in the movie, but not really like his character in the book at all. They cut so much out (as most movies based on books do) and added so many utterly ridiculous things not even in the book at all. Some of it was downright silly. If you are a person who has never read the book, you may find the movie cute and charming and all of that. If you’ve read the book, I am betting that you are finding it very lacking as I am.
The book is way better. If you haven’t read it – read it. It’s really cute.
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Aimee scribbled this note on December 31st, 2008: [ Quote ]
I never actually knew it was a book. I thought it was just a random animated film that looked not at all interesting and really unforgivingly cheesy. I tried to laugh at the funny bits, but I couldn’t. And that was just in the trailer before Wall-E came on. =P Might give the book a chance, though, cause I know how movie people screw up novels when they make them into films.
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I thought the book was awesome. I randomly read it only a few weeks ago, and I didn’t even know it was becoming a movie. I really loved it, though.
On it’s own, I thought the movie was pretty good. It was just missing something to make it more memorable/amazing.
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I felt the same way about Ella Enchanted. I love the book, I think it’s wonderful and creative. The movie was painful to sit through, I don’t know how they got one from the other.
I have not seen Despereaux, nor do I plan to, but the book was really cute.
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