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City of Ember   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews   Critics Reviews User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   The Critics: B- 11 reviews Start Rating Movies Now! Sign In or sign up Yahoo! Users: B+ 1778 ratings  User Reviews (130 reviews) Write your own review Sort by:  Most HelpfulMost RecentHighest GradeLowest Grade Previous   |  1-10 of 130  |   Next   Overall Grade: A Story: A Acting: A Direction: A Visuals: A Come on people...LIGHTEN up! by Eric (movies profile) (Oct 11, 2008) 11 of 12 people found this review helpful Sometimes, readers expect more than they ought to, especially from book adaptations, even though we all know how Hollyweird slices and dices beautifully penned tomes with... Full Review Overall Grade: B Story: B+ Acting: B Direction: B Visuals: B+ "City" Lights a Few Bulbs by WilliamP (movies profile) (Oct 9, 2008) 10 of 10 people found this review helpful It's a nice kid-friendly apocalyptic yarn taken from Jeanne Duprau's New York Times Bestseller. The massive set is vividly done, and the actors do a respectful jo... Full Review Overall Grade: D Story: F Acting: B+ Direction: D Visuals: C The book vs. the movie= book is better by rosyrotten47 (movies profile) (Oct 10, 2008) 18 of 27 people found this review helpful I was looking forward to seeing "City of Ember" after I had finished reading the book to my daughter two weeks ago. So the story was quite fresh in my mind.... Full Review Overall Grade: A+ Story: A Acting: A Direction: A+ Visuals: A Book or Not by CalKnight (movies profile) (Oct 10, 2008) 10 of 11 people found this review helpful I haven't read the book, so I don't know if it is anything like the book or not. However, just seeing the movie I think it was on par with Goonies, except instead... Full Review Overall Grade: B+ Story: B Acting: B+ Direction: B Visuals: A- Good family entertainment by AllanP (movies profile) (Oct 11, 2008) 6 of 8 people found this review helpful Interesting movie...not particularly thrilling but the storyline moved quickly with a satisfying ending. This is a safe movie for the whole family, though real young chi... Full Review Overall Grade: C- Story: C+ Acting: B Direction: C- Visuals: C Interesting premise, but disappoints by Kenny is dead (movies profile) (Oct 16, 2008) 5 of 6 people found this review helpful My wife and I went to see this movie thinking that it would be of similar caliber to movies like "Golden Compass", "Narnia", or the like. Unfortunatel... Full Review Overall Grade: A Story: A Acting: A Direction: A Visuals: A A clean, exciting family movie. by Tiffany (movies profile) (Oct 20, 2008) 4 of 5 people found this review helpful I was so happy to watch a movie that was totally clean. It was fast paced too and seemed to speed by. It probably isn't for really young children because it does have... Full Review Overall Grade: B+ Story: N/A Acting: N/A Direction: N/A Visuals: N/A Really nice, kid-friendly movie! by Tom And Cindy (movies profile) (Oct 11, 2008) 3 of 4 people found this review helpful How refreshingly nice to find a kid-friendly, family movie that everyone can enjoy! The movie is well acted with praise especially for the two main characters played by... Full Review Overall Grade: A- Story: A- Acting: A- Direction: A- Visuals: A- a film with surprizing depth by Robert (movies profile) (Oct 11, 2008) 2 of 3 people found this review helpful It seemed to be advertized as a kid's movie but it was a little too slow to be a kid movie. It looked great and had the right feel to the social setting. We all loved... Full Review Overall Grade: A Story: A Acting: A Direction: A Visuals: A Worth the watch again! by Kathy (movies profile) (Oct 14, 2008) 1 of 1 people found this review helpful This was not a movie I remembered seeing a "trailor" for...sounded interesting, so we went to see it. Both of us LOVED it. Keeps your interest throughout, put... Full Review Previous   |  1-10 of 130  |   Next