Review: “City of Ember”
Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 1:02PM | By Franck Tabouring 
Seen on: October 11, 2008
The players:
Director: Gil Kenan, Writer: Caroline Thompson,
Cast: Bill Murray, Toby Jones, Saoirse Ronan, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Harry Treadaway
Facts of interest: Based on the book by Jeanne Duprau.
The plot: Two youngsters (Ronan and Treadaway) must save an entire underground city before the lights go out and darkness thrusts everyone into panic.
Our thoughts: While Gil Kenan’s “City of Ember” fails to qualify as an extraordinary family adventure, the film boasts enough energy and excitement to captivate younger audiences from start to finish. You can hate me for saying this, but this kind of films turns out to be more constructive than your average animated flick in which talking animals keep doing the same stuff over and over again.
