This is really a fun childrens movie, featuring some Hollywood legends (Tim Robbins, Mystic River & Bill Murray, Caddyshack) in cameo rolls, while serving as a stage setter and platform for some incredibly talented young actors to get their big break.
Based on a popular novel, the plot centers around the underground city of ember which has existed ever since a catastrophic virus threatened the surface and all humanity. It has been a few centuries in ember, and things are starting to breakdown. They have sensed many of the problems, but with foot in short supply and power going in and out, the Emberites are beginning to fear the worst, and being simple people who can’t even read, fear is not good in a enclosed space.
The two young people are newly appointed in their occupations and must begin to unravel why everything isn’t working as well as it once did, against the wishes of Embers fat and lethargic mayor.
A great childrens themed movie that keeps it entertaining with colorful yet convincing aethetics and tetrrific performances, City of Ember is really a victorious effort in rretelling the classic struggle of humans to emerge from the darkness into the the light, and to live according to the way they were designed. The question and fire of the human spirit is brilliantly illuystrated in figuring out the riddles that lead the young people to the solution to free the people of ember and outwit the witless adults. 2, and a family movie for sure.
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