Perhaps I would have enjoy it better without reading the book. It's just that my expectations for the movie was too great, expecting it to be like Harry Potter or LOTR and I ended up disappointed. I read the book and like it as a fun and enjoyable fantasy adventure. Once accidentally into the forest, the boy Eragon finds a strange egg blue. Take note that I am not bashing the storyline or the book. They look more like big sized men with tattoos. The Urgals do not look like what they are described in the book. Lot's of important locations and events gone.
The Story moves at too fast a pace which leads back to Point 2 and 5. A 497 page book cut down to become a 1 and a half hour movie. Important characters having less than 10 minutes of screen time. A LOT of stuff was cut out from the book. Eragon meets the rebels Varden and together they fight against the evil sorcerer Durza and the army of Galbatorix in a journey for freedom. Excited I was to watch the movie, but just 15 minutes into the movie and I was sorely disappointed. Their approaches to his education are different, but both intend to get him ready to reintroduce the grandeur of the dragon riders back into current lore.I finished reading Eragon the book on Tuesday, 2 days before the movie premiere in my country on 14 December. At 17, he's not exactly a child, but he still grows up quickly under the auspices of Obi-Wan-like Brom and flying, fire-breathing, cranky dragon Saphira (voiced somewhat stiffly by Rachel Weisz). The unnecessarily talky set-up names some of the different types of creatures in Alagaësia (bad Urgels and Ra'zac, mostly good humans), then goes on to describe Eragon's reactions and feelings, even when you can see them yourself.
It's hardly a good sign that much of the back story must be narrated (by Irons) before the movie really begins. With plot points borrowed from a range of other movies - whether great like Star Wars or dismal like Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker - it tells the tale of an ordinary-seeming boy, Eragon, who's destined for great things. For a movie about flying dragons, ERAGON is disappointingly flatfooted.
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