I wondered when the joy of exploring Pandora would stop being enough. The answer turns out to be approximately 45 minutes into the third entry.

It is a pleasant enough cash grab, with a few laughs, but nothing worth going out of your way to see.

It is a better package, maybe because having an actual conclusion gives it a purpose, as well as stronger narrative momentum.

Does that faithfulness make for a better movie? It is certainly better made. However, I am not sure it is as entertaining.

It feels like every other PG-13 sci-fi/action blockbuster, with nothing all that interesting to distinguish it.

It isn’t a bad movie; it is well-made, with a decent pace and excellent production design. It is merely a perfunctory one.

It is competently made, decently paced and has a handful of effective action sequences. In short, it is the definition of okay. It will probably give audiences what they expect, if not what they’re hoping for.

Even though it does everything you expect, and nothing you don’t, it still kind of works due to some well-filmed racing action and the always welcome charisma of Brad Pitt.

Though the movie teases the show’s style and scores some points off of how out of place Dora is, it never implies there is anything wrong wi

I admire the artistry involved in putting The Lion King together. I highly recommend seeing it on the biggest screen possible. Yet the feeli