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Anyone else Annoyed with the main kid?


They made him so bratty and he kept on taking the book out of the circle and waving it around despite being repeatedly told that doing so would bring the destruction of everyone. Then later he says no one told him what would happen if the main baddie got the book even though he had been told at least 5 times at that point.

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Oh yeah. That kid was dumb even for a kid. Quite frankly all three of those kids were pretty clueless.

As a group, they are literally the worst protagonists I have ever seen in a movie. It ruined what was an otherwise acceptable movie for me.

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Yes. It is why I came on here. Sadly to say he is kind of a typical kid.

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Anyone else Annoyed with the main kid?

Why, because he was an annoying, mopey, mouthy little dipsh*t who blamed everyone else for his problems and repeatedly endangered his family (and all of humanity, at least per the film) without an ounce of consideration despite warning after warning after warning? Is that what you're talking about?

If it was the goal of the makers of the film and the actor who played the main kid to make me despise the kid, then they all succeeded in spades, because I despised him even after his big turn-of-heart event near the end.

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Well, wasn't that the whole point of his character? Disobey, rebel and be completely stubborn. I'm just saying I wouldn't expect a kid with his problems to follow orders... even in a situation like the one he found himself in.

I do understand if some viewers felt that the actor - or the writers - still made him too unlikable. I mean, the way he kept putting everyone in danger by constantly doing what he was told not to was inexcusable and certainly irritating. He didn't exactly get on my nerves though.


You want something corny? You got it!

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He was a very annoying child actor who was overrated in all his acting roles. The kid in the film though is supposed to be a bit obnoxious & do silly things that kids so.

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