Please do yourself a favor and pick up the books. I was dissapointed because the characters were nothing like I pictured them when I first read them. Special effects weren't all that special, acting was icky. GREAT book, iffy movie. :( P.S. would've rated "plot" higher, but they left out SO MANY things from the book!! Why didn't they just use the book as a script and film it word for word!?!