'Artemis Fowl' review: Disney turns mediocre book into an awful movie
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – “Artemis Fowl” was supposed to be Disney’s “Harry Potter,” the kick-off instalment in a young-adult fantasy franchise that might have spawned sequels and merch and its own corner of the company’s theme-park kingdom. Instead, it arrives 20 years on, a very late addition to an already overcrowded genre, adding little but noise, garish CGI and more convoluted mythology about the supposedly real civilizations of magical folk — fairies and goblins and trolls — that live among us.