though it would have been lovely to take in the lavish set pieces and the cool CGI creations and the whiz-bang action sequences on the big screen, "Artemis Fowl" still plays well as a warm and funny and entertaining at-home family viewing experience
Kenneth Branagh's chintzy take on Eoin Colfer's popular YA series lacks an effective star, good effects, general coherency, and any sense of actual magic
director Kenneth Branagh's long-delayed adaptation of author Eoin Colfer's YA series is a confusing, muddled, sloppy mess of bad intentions and worse execution
baffling, muddled and beyond confusing; what the film fails to do is provide any kind of coherent narrative to keep the laymen amongst us interested for long enough to care one way or the other
an overqualified adult cast and some fun moments can't entirely compensate for a defanged protagonist and too-static plot. This fantasy desperately needed a little more magic