John Carter (2012)

Interesting concept. Of course it originally comes from a series of books written by Edgar Rice Burroughs  from 1912 to 1943. (This is an ELE-VEN volume series) This film is supposed to capture the main characters first experience on the planet Barsoom or as we like to call it, Mars. I love that when these stories were written it was in a time when our planet was suffering from mass hysteria of alien attacks from Mars. (Thank you Orson Wells ha ha) So I can kind of get the idea as to why there would be a river, much less a whole-nother human race inhabiting the red planet. A little hard to follow at first the movie may lose your interest. BUT by the middle of it I kind of liked it. There were a few things that reminded me of Star Wars, as you will see. Needed more of a back story. I felt as though it also needed more depth to be taken seriously. It was a quick summary of the first book and there were some cheesy lines here and there, but nothing to roll your eyes at. There is also a great Haboob scene that made me feel right at home. (What's up Arizona!!) I did really enjoy the fat, cute, little alien dog like thing too. The "humans" of Mars not so much, boring characters everywhere! So by the time it's over it makes you kind of hope for a sequel?