Review – John Carter

This movie may hold the record for longest time in development. After the whole Tarzan thing took off in the early 1930s, studios started looking at other Edgar Rice Burroughs works to adapt. On the surface this series about an American who ends up on Mars seems like natural movie material. But if this expensive production is any proof, the Carter series is too episodic for the big screen. Though the effects were fun, the characters were unsympathetic and the story was a little like listening to a ten-year-old’s “this happened and then this happened and then this happened” tale. Mildly amusing