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Dec. 18, 2006

Movie Review

I am home sick from church, so I thought I would give you all my movie review of Eragon. I took 6 preteen boys to see it Friday night-- do I still smell like Axe? They had fun, although they all agreed that the book was much better.

If you are not familiar with it, Eragon is a fantasy book written by a homeschooled boy when he was 15. It is part of the Inheritance trilogy. The sequel, Eldest, is out, but the 3rd book is not out yet.

I thought the movie was good. It has a fair amount of violence but no gore and no language that I recall. Many families will avoid it due to the same type of magic that many other films have-- LOTR, Star Wars, Narnia, etc. The source of evil in the movie is clearly identified as demonic, but there is no mention of where the "good" comes from other than that the dragon riders get their magic from the dragons.

It would be easy to dismiss the movie as a Star Wars knock-off (we even joked about it-- I asked my son if Brohm was Obiwan) but since Star Wars relies so much on literary archetypes, I am not sure that is fair. But there is a knight, a quest, an old and bitter ~~Jedi~~ dragon rider who teaches the young farm boy, the uncle who is killed by the ~~Storm Troopers~~ Urgalls. And when Eragon stands in the country looking at the sun, you keep wondering where the other one is. Since I am a Star Wars fan, this is not a drawback for me. All in all, it was a fun ride. Read the book, see the movie!

Updated to add: I found a literature study of Eragon here and thought someone else might be interested in it. My son is excited about it, so yours might be, too!

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Dec. 18, 2006 - about eldest

Posted by rebecca

Hey Leslie,

have you read Eldest? I heard there were a couple of scenes in that book that were not for under 18 yo's--your thoughts? I am just not into that genre and so haven't read either of the books.

Merry Christmas!

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