Spanks – 5
Director – Andrew Stanton
Writers – Andrew Stanton & Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon
Starring – Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Willem Dafoe, Thomas Haden Church and Mark Strong
Release Date – 9 March 2012
MPAA Rating – PG-13
Runtime – 132 Minutes
Do not write off John Carter like Disney did. The studio did everything wrong with the marketing of this movie. First off, they shouldn’t have changed the title. Secondly, they should have given some story in the trailers and not just the battle scenes and ships exploding.
The film is based off the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, A Princess of Mars. It is the story of a Confederate Civil War veteran named John Carter. After the war, he moves out to the Arizona Territory to get rich finding gold. During a confrontation with some Indians, he hides in a cave and is transported to Mars. On Mars he is thrown into the middle of a thousand year civil war between the cities of Helium and Zodanga.
The movie has everything a summer movie should have (except a March release). I have not read the novel, so I am not sure if it deviates from it at all. There is no reason why more people have not seen this movie.
Director Andrew Stanton continues to make visually awesome films. This was his first time directing a non animation movie. The film has CGI in almost every scene but it didn’t annoy me like most films that are loaded with it. It all looked like it belonged and was real.
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