L'Incroyable Bibliothèque de M. Lemoncello

This is based on a beautifully written book and they rewrote characters and all kinds of stuff. It's so bad and not the book at all. My kids were so disappointed.

My daughter and I LOVED the books... and this adaptation is truly horrific. Character names and a couple of plot aspects remain, the rest is just garbage. I don't get it; the book was good enough for someone to want to turn it into a movie... only to mess everything up constantly. What a waste of a great book...

This show will appeal to young children and perhaps the young at heart. Most adults will tolerate it. Note that parts of this may be a bit frightening for younger children, so parents may wish to watch along and reassure them the monsters aren't real.

This is a Willy Wonka type story but done with all the skill of a Saturday afternoon special. The acting is uh, acting. The story is juvenile (go figure; it's a kid's show). Adults will either enjoy this or yawn. When one decides to watch a kid's show, it shouldn't be criticized for being a kid's show.

That said, it's one of those barely tolerable things. It does well enough for what it is, but it's more of an action/adventure tale that really doesn't have much of a moral or lesson to teach. However, children will probably wish to watch it repeatedly, which is the audience they're shooting for.

I give it 5 star mediocre even as a children's show. There have been far better such... and far worse. It will do to keep kids occupied for an hour.

My kids and I read the book, and were very excited to watch the movie. No movie can ever be truly faithful to the book, but it was very disappointing. I don't think anything much other than character names and the basic premise of Luigi Lemoncello having a contest within a library remained the same. The movie on its own wasn't awful, but why even give it the same title as the book if it was going to completely disregard most of the source material from the book. Dracula, Frankenstein, pterodactyls, geese with ninja stars, and vengeful Hansel and Gretel with bows and arrows abound in this movie.

This is an ok adaptation, but it skins over SO MUCH of the important parts. As an adult who has read the book and now watched this , I'd give it a three star rating. My kids liked it a lot so we met in the middle on this review.