Leiva Enei

The movie was decent up until toward the end. I loved Dustfinger throughout though, he was a complicated yet very relatable character and hands down the best part of the whole movie. I was already questioning pretty early on how the silvertongue power worked and what its limits were. I found out toward the end that it’s literally the most OP power I’ve ever heard of and could’ve spared everyone the journey of this whole movie within the first 20 minutes, since it turns out you can write literally anything you want on literally any material and read it aloud and it’ll come to be. There was also a really stupid plot moment that Meggie was old enough and smart enough to know better about. “If you don’t read the Shadow out, I’ll hurt your mom” Says the bad guy. Like uh... your mom is literally in a cage in front of you, announced previously that she’d be the first person the shadow kills right after you summon it. This was the dumbest blackmail in history. So Meggie’s like: “alright, to prevent my mom from being killed, I’m gonna go ahead and summon this monster to first kill her, then everyone else, certainly sounds like the better deal and outcome here! Dead mom and death for all sure beats just dead mom!” Then after it gets there, all the good people are saved and have a happy ending due to OP silvertongue power that everyone had apparently been holding out on until the last second. Ruined the whole integrity and journey of the movie because none of it had to happen when people have the power to make literally any thing or outcome they want into being. As much as I love Dustfinger, his attitude toward the end made no sense. He spent the whole movie working toward his goal of getting back home, doing things that seemed kinda douchey to achieve that goal (it only appears douchey at first glance, every single “bad” thing he did, he had very good and logical reason for, and always helped when he could), at the end, seeing that Meggie can write anything into existence now, totally gives up on his goal and says he missed his chance. Uh how? Just walk up to Meggie and say, hey can you write my way back home and read it out, like I just saw you do a moment ago? There seems to be absolutely no limit on this power so it’s not like it has a time limit, like because she just did it she can’t again. And it’s not like she needed the actual book because she sent everyone else who was ever read out of books back home at once without any of the actual books being present. Getting home was the driving force for everything Dustfinger did, and an easy way home was right in front of him and now all of the sudden he loses hope? Don’t do Dustfinger like that, that character deserves better.