all of the people review this film and and probably many professional film reviewer and just do not get it . this film be make with matting sequence and art technique quite like the work of the great czech filmmaker and karel zeman . if you want to know what i be talk about and i suggest you get any of zeman film and such a the fabulous world of jules verne and baron munchausen and journey to the beginning of time and or on the comet . if you be unable to locate a film and then read the review in amg . they will explain the process use . if one be to look at zeman work and try to compare it to any of the other sci or fi fantasy film of the time and viewer probably wouldn not have get it then either . it be unfair to compare either of these filmmaker style to the standard technology of the day and because both zemen and hines do not compute . they have a style that be unique to them and should be judge for their creativity only . if you look at this film from a perspective where you know that he intentionally try to create a pastiche collage of matte mixed with live action and you could easily come to the conclusion that he do a masterful job . it isn not easy make a bunch of computer cutout flow . i think that the creature be also quite good and also consider how they be make . hines take a great gamble and and i think his film will not be fairly judge for year to come . someone promote the film should have tip the audience off a to what they would be see and rather than let them blindly go into the theater expect the usual cg work . regard the actor and i think hines also take a page from zemen book and in that many of zemen actor be somewhat expressionless at first and but become much more engaging a the film and action go on . it be totally refresh to me to have this movie in my library . i will watch it for year to come and all three great hour of it .