The ending doesn’t bother me either. I suppose it does tie two disparate genres together, but hmm. What came before worked well enough that I could forgive it easily.

A note on CG- I loved The Matrix because the most amazing things we saw on screen were done with real film shot, with some CG rounding out the edges. Bullet time and revolving cameras were both great film-making revelations. Then Matrix 2 went entirely CG, and suddenly it’s just not interesting to me anymore. It’s just a fancy cartoon. It’s not real-world physics manipulated, it’s totally imaginary.

Lebeouf- I also thought he did a great job in ‘Holes’- that’s a good movie. Caveman!

I don’t know why director’s use CG, it still is far, far from realistic enough to be believable and not take a viewer out of the movie. It’s like, ok, time to include a video game portion of the movie.

Or maybe it’s more than just the fakeness of CG, is the fake concepts CG allows the director to put on screen. Seeing someone get carried into a hole by ants, no matter how good the CGI, won’t look realistic because it can’t really happen. I know the point of movies is to show the fantastic and unreal, but there have to be limits to the suspension of disbelief established by the movie itself.

I liked the young guy very much! Holes, in which he debuted, is one of my favourite movies, and he did a good job as he did in Holes. He is soooooo terrific!

But, because of the very last scene, I give it three stars. It was funny and entertaining enough though.