No one whom I would want for a friend would regret watching this movie. Flaws? Of course! Uncredited Grand Cameo by Peter O’Toole? Rousing good story? Magic candles?! DiNiro in drag and Mark Strong’s Righteous outrage?! Yes! Yes to all of it. This is, in my opinion, in the pantheon of R_Kane’s Favorite Fantasy (his favorite genre by far) Films, up there with The Golden Compass, far above all The Hobbit movies, and not quite up to the totality of The Lord of the Rings and Conan the Barbarian (you KNOW which one). Far above Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, and even beyond Coraline. That good.
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