Great Book! Terrible Movie! [I Am Number Four]

I Am Number Four is currently my favorite book because of everything about it. It's basically about an alien that comes to Earth after his planet Lorien is attacked my another race of aliens. His people look like us, speak pretty good English though they usually have an accent that people mistake for French, but are super fast, strong, and eventually develop powers like shooting lasers, turning invisible, controlling the elements, etc. Only nine children, nine protectors that are more like humans because they don't do anything special, and a captain to drive the escaping space ship make it off the planet alive. Sadly the people who destroyed Lorien have found them on Earth and are hunting them down. Lucky for them there is a charm so they can only be killed in a certain order. Obviously the book is about Number Four, unluckily for him the first three of them are dead so he is next in line.

I saw previews for the movie first and I didn't even know it was a book and when I found out it was, I was overjoyed. Then I saw the movie. Truthfully the movie wasn't that bad but after reading the book I was kind of PO'd. They took a perfectly good book and changed it into a unrealistic action movie with the guy from Alex Rider and the hot cheerleader from "Glee". They didn't talk about the backstory at all, the action looked like something from a video game, and they changed a bunch of details that wouldn't have changed the movie at all but they still decided to mix it up anyway.

I give the book a 5 out of 5 and the movie a .5 out of 100. Age 12 and up (a couple of cuss words). The book will have a sequel called The Power of Six which is due out September 2011. The book is by Pittacus Lore who is supposedly also a Lorien elder. By Chase (Age 12)