Hawk’s Babble-Log

Bionicle is a Lego series of toys. They look pretty cool, but I never got into ‘em.

The movie is based on the toys, and the universe which has been built up around them. Visually, I liked it a lot. The graphics and effects were excellent. I liked the look of the film a lot. And the voice actors were fine, no complaints there.

The filmmakers did not take into account the people who did not know anything about the toys or the Bionicle universe. For these people, they’ll spend most of the time watching this movie scratching their proverbial heads, wondering what’s going on.

That’s a major outpoint, but also of note is that the story is realy weak. Or, to use a technical term: lousy. *Especially* when characters magically arise from death with no explanation. But hey, I guess it’s a kids movie. And in kids movies, you can’t have your major characters dying off never to be seen again.

In summary, it’s worth a rental if you’ve got nothing better, but I won’t be buying it.