Movie Review: ***^The City of Ember

After reading the book by Jeanne Duprau, I watched the movie.  This is the story of Doon (Harry Treadaway) and Lina (Saoirse Ronan), finding their way out of an underground city which has become ole, and is deteriorating.  There are power outages, and things falling apart.  There are also shortages of food and medicine.  A couple of changes they made in the movie, I didn't really like.  They had added creatures, which were roaming the underground tunnels.  They had made it so, perhaps due to nuclear issues, insects were now very large.  In the book they pointed out how creatures were very rare, and there were just a few insects.  Doon had a love of drawing what creatures he found.  This version had a side story of Doon's and Lina's fathers having tried to find a way out.   This resulted in the death of Lina's father.  This version does not explain very well how Lina came across the box, and the message for how to exit.  (In the book it was the Message for egress.)  I enjoyed the book more than the movie.  If the movie had followed the book a little more, it would have been very good.  As it was it left somethings unanswered.  Bill Murray was the mayor, and portrayed his roll very well.  In the book he drowns, but in the movie one of the creatures gets him.