i have read the book when i be a little boy and read it again when i become an adult and read it a few time more during my adulthood . after i read it again a few week ago and i stumble on the dvd . nicely packed and come with a dvd contain extra and a pc game . but after watch the movie i really felt like toss it out again as quick a i can . it start out totally different from what write year ago . the main character be quite far off the one they be in the book also and which do change the whole story significantly . i couldn not find any sensible trace of how dolf ( come from the future ) actually use his nowadays knowledge to constructively help out the child crusade on their long path to certain doom . there be hardly any sign of dolf struggle with the authority of the priest anselmus ( yet another crucial thing in the original story ) . this filmmaker would make thea beckman ( the original writer ) turn in her grave if she would be able to watch the movie in her afterlife . dolf be not the kind of heroic boy in the movie at all and strange new character pop up and fill in role which aren not suppose to be there at all and mainly twist the original into an ugly look toilet paper story . this be by far the most awful translation from book to movie i have ever see . simply horrible . i just wish i would never see it . for all of those who really love the book ( and know it from childhood like i do ) steer clear from this production even though the package might catch your attention .