It's funny how different people can react differently because a group of DS friends and I saw the film in IMAX today and we all loved it. (And OMG, in IMAX it was amazing!) In fact, I just got home from being with them, and from the time the film finished, which was about 6:20pm ET until the last of my friends and I parted for the day, which was 15 minutes ago, we were talking about how we loved such and such and hoped that if they do indeed do a sequel, such and such will be explored, and on and on. Though all of that is not to say that any of us thought the film was perfect. But then, no version of DS is! Not the original series. Not the original movies. Not the '91 series. But even with a flaw here and there (and my own personal pet peeve that we could have done without the projectile vomit), there was so much to love about the film. It definitely had more than enough of the flavor of DS for us. Though that's about all I'll say for tonight because I'm too tired to say more.
But I will definitely say more the first chance I get.
And oh BTW - I linked to the NY Times review in the post that starts off this topic. Just how blind are you people?