January 17, 2009

City of Ember

We went to see City of Ember this morning and on the whole we enjoyed it - the kids more than me. It’s a good story of a pocket of humanity hidden deep underground to survive some major catastrophe, with a kind of alarm clock set to let them out after 200 years. The thing is lost and they stay there beyond the 200 years, forgetting all about life above ground, until their generator, which they rely on for power, heat and light, starts to fail.

Then it’s down to two teenagers, Doon and Lena, to find a way out and save the day. 

The only thing that let it down for me was the scale of bugs and things below ground that didn’t seem to match once they got above ground. Other than that it was fun - Mimi (and other more sensitive children) was a bit un-nerved at the unexpected (for her, I saw it coming) death of a granny and the star nosed mole towards the end.

I wonder if the book is worth a read…. 

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  1. Looks good, hadn’t heard of it before.

    Comment by Jax — January 17, 2009 @ 8:56 pm

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