Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: At least it had pictures...

When I first saw the trailers for the movie, I thought "Well, this sounds interesting, but Disney??" I saw the movie and it instantly became a new favorite. Then I rec'd the book. Words fail me. I recognize that it is a junior version of the story and therefore should be 'calmed down' from the movie version... but what age group was the author attempting to cater to? The writing was stiff, stilted, banal and uninteresting. Even if I had nothing to compare it against I would have had a difficult time yawning through it. Nothing captured the spirit of the movie, and the characters were all cardboard imitations. It's not worth the paper it was printed on.