I would call this movie a steaming pile of garbage. But to do so would be blatantly offensive to an ACTUAL steaming pile of garbage. I'm not typically one to crucify a movie because it didn't stay entirely true to the book, however this didn't even stay true to the very essence of the book. The books are rather dark, and gritty. This is nothing of the sort. As a children's movie, under a different name, with no tie or relation to the Artemis Fowl series, this may be passable. But for what it claims to be, I condemn it to burn for eternity on the "never again" shelf.