I found the film to be entertaining, and worth our time (and money) to go see it...
Of course it does not follow the original book storyline to a “T”...No films really do, but I enjoyed the imagery come to life, so to speak, when this and the preceding films came out...
I have read all the books in this series when I was younger, and reading to me, regardless of the genre and content was always an escape for me...I urge the parents in this forum to get their kids to read things beyond what you or others might believe to be beyond their kids comprehension or attention span...I’ve read books many times over in my life, and when I was younger I had been told my comprehension and reading level was way over the age and grade I was currently in...
If these types of stories do nothing more than exercise the grey matter between the ears, and the more you stimulate that the better in the long run...