I hate those money-wasting flicks! It’s enough to make you want to rent all your movies at the library and thus never risk wasting a dime.

I thought the same thing after seeing the movie! It seemed so thin a film for such a thick book. I went on to read the first two books in the cycle and they are, indeed, far better than the movie. It was only 90 minutes long; they should have bumped it to 2 hours and spent more time building characters and letting the dragon grow at its normal rate. Of course, the story is so close to the original Star Wars, that kind of takes away some of its honor. I mean, a princess carrying a tool that can help destroy the evil empire is being pursued by bad guys and finds a way to send the weapon beyond their reach before they catch her. It ends up in the hands of an orphan farm boy living on the outer reaches of the empire with his uncle. The bad guys trace it back to him, kill his uncle, so he follows an old fool (formerly a mystical knight, who gives him a sword) on an adventure wherein they hire a plucky guide and rescue the princess (and in the rescue process, the old man dies)…
It goes on and on like that. In the sequel, he receives training from a pointy-eared cripple. And finds out who his father is…

And she very near exploded in her rage. 😛