siff: island of lost souls

So, tonight eight of us saw Island of Lost Souls, a movie that speaks heavily of wizards and necromancers in the summary. It is actually about a lot of little wisps from Warcraft III that fly around possessing people. Oh, and there’s a necromancer who summons more wisps and has a single scarecrow minion. Not really the hordes of undead overtaking the town as I expected, and the magical battles are fairly limited to one at the beginning and one at the end. The rest of the film involves a lot of nonsense like finding secret black-magic infoz from books published by HarperCollins.

The film is clearly geared towards the PG-13 crowd — teens whose parents perhaps played D&D at one point, or who liked the Harry Potter books but couldn’t stand the incredible special effects of the movies. There are several good humorous points — some subtle, some not-so-much — and as far as adolescent fantasy movies go, this was up there. Unfortunately, I am in my mid-to-late 20s.

I rate Island of Lost Souls 3 out of 5 Nimbus 2000s.