John Carter of Mars

The short review is that it was a really fun film, not worth full price and probably not worth matinee price, but fun. Worth seeing again, just not in the theaters.

I've actually never read the Barsoom books. My Grampa suggested that I try reading the Tarzan books when I was about halfway through my Dad's collection of them, as a kid; my Dad had all the Pellucidar books, and there was even a Venus book in the public library. I mean, I know the basic ideas as a cultural byproduct a little like how someone could know what Deep Ones and Cthulhu are without having ever flipped open a Lovecraft story. I'm confessing this heresy publicly because I'm basically judging the thing as a movie, without being desperately disappointed that It Isn't That Way in Burroughs' Originals Damnit. ( No real spoilers, but hey, it's still a movie review. )