Nice effects though.

Beautiful, moving film.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The Lovely Bones is a decent film with a reasonably well developed plot and a good cast. The highlight of the film, for me, is without a doubt Stanley Tucci, who is immensely transformed and powerfully disturbing as George Harvey, his performance was absolutely riveting, it is just a shame it could not have been for a film that deserved him. The movie tries too hard, it is throwing messages, metaphors and imagery at us left, right and center that it forgets that characters and realism captures an audience far more that impressive visual effects. There is so much going on at once that a lot of it becomes muffled. Several members of the cast misses the mark, speaking of, Mark Wahlberg is unconvincing in this film, it is not a part that was right for him, I never truly believed he missed his daughter and wanted redemption for her. Susan Sarandon plays Susan Sarandon so much that it took me out of the movie completely, she didn't fit the film's aesthetic and her character was brought in to the plot in such a forced manner that I could not help but feel a little cringe. Forgettable. While it had good intentions, The Lovely Bones pales in many areas and is certainly Peter Jackson's weakest movie, give this one a miss. A recently deceased young girl watches over her family as they grieve. Best Performance: Stanley Tucci / Worst Performance: Susan Sarandon

This is one of the most poorly directed films I've ever had the displeasure of watching. Please do not waste your time on this one. 2 hours and 15 minutes of Peter Jackson wasting a lot of money on CGI instead of developing a good plot line and developing a story.

This movie tries to be beautiful and if you can understand what its trying to do then you will like it very much. I am not into these kinds of movies so for me it certainly was a very different kind of movie and I liked it for the most part but it was just too long I'd say. Visuals are really good with well done CGI. . The kind of story it wanted to tell, it told it pretty well. Its a movie where you will have to helplessly see all good and bad things happening around just like our main character. You might take it as a negative but that is exactly what is also the strength of this movie cause that is how a lot of things happen around us.

Kudos to the set designer and location people. I grew up in Norristown, Pennsylvania shortly after the time that the story would have taken place. According to the book, that was the approximate location of where the story takes place. Everything in the set design and location is spot on as to what it looked like during that time frame. It was incredibly eerie because there is a farm across the street from the High School (Norristown Area HS)and a field where all of the dark parts of the story take place. They really did their homework and did a fabulous job of re-creating the setting of the story. Parts of the movie were shot in towns around Norristown/West Norriton, which really paints a picture of what the area looked like back then. Thanks for re-creating a part of the past and showing off my hometown (even though it is a fictional story).