Artemis Fowl Reviews
One of the worst feature films Disney has ever created. As much as it hurts me to write this, Ferdia Shaw delivers one of the worst young performances I’ve ever witnessed, but the embarrassment is shared by everyone involved in this atrocious mess.
| Original Score: F | Jul 24, 2023
A fruitless franchise launch for a series I doubt we will ever see again.
| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022
This Artemis Fowl is neither criminal nor mastermind. He's just a kid who sort of reacts to things throughout this movie.
| Original Score: 1/10 | Feb 20, 2022
Artemis Fowls efforts come off as if it came from a movie world of yesteryear. While the concept of a world outside of ours filled with fairies, trolls, and creatures was impressive at the turn of the century, its not enough in 2020.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022
Theres no magic in this high-tech fantasy, a blend of futuristic gizmos and ancient mythological creatures in a silly, amateurish package.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 18, 2022
A dull adaptation that squanders the promise of its cast and bears little resemblance to the novels it's based on.
| Original Score: 3 | Jun 24, 2021
Artemis Fowl appears to be a film drenched in production issues, phoned-in performances, and a really shoddy script that fails to adapt even the simplest elements from the books.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2021
Unfortunately, Artemis Fowl joins The Lightning Thief and The Golden Compass in the camp of YA series done dirty by their film adaptations.
| Original Score: 2/10 | Feb 1, 2021
Artemis Fowl may survive to have more on-screen adventures, perhaps filling the hole for fantasy fans left by the absence of Harry Potter movies, but next time around fewer special effects and more personality would help.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 29, 2021
The fact that this film has a young Black female character whose sole narrative purpose is to bring people sandwiches should tell you everything you need to know about it.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 27, 2021
It's visually impactful, but its narrative falls apart. [Full Review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 29, 2020
Lots of things happen but nothing unfolds. It's like watching a feature-length trailer for a film that doesn't exist.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 26, 2020
Contains a scene of Gad unhinging his jaw, eating dirt, and farting clods of earth out his backside. You too may begin shouting "What fresh Hell is this?"
| Nov 3, 2020
Artemis Fowl feels like a cowardly adaptation to make a more childish version of a book that at least was different. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 16, 2020
Disney continues to try desperately to find their fantasy-inspired franchise and this, decisively, isn't it.
| Original Score: D | Sep 2, 2020
A particularly vulgar Harry Potter rip-off that tries to hide the worst of its theft by mashing it into the framework of Men in Black.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2020
A disappointing dud that has had much of its rougher edges smoothed off.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2020
The mischievous glint in [Judi Dench]'s eyes is Artemis Fowl's only nod to irony and self-awareness.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 11, 2020
Artemis Fowl is a mediocre mess of a film that clearly spent a lot of time on visual effects but not enough time in doing justice to the kind of storytelling that author Eoin Colfer has in his Artemis Fowl books.
| Jul 22, 2020
With equal doses of sci-fi and fantasy," Artemis Fowl" plays like a mashup of "Star Wars" and "Harry Potter."
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2020