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Edwin Davies: I think that people have caught on to the idea that Snyder, whilst an interesting visual stylist, has not really developed his ability as a storyteller all that much, something which was evident from the, admittedly pretty cool, trailer. It all looked nice, and the use of When The Levee Breaks was nothing short of inspired, but even having watched the trailer and read about the film I had no clue what the film was actually about. Even though eye candy can sometimes be enough to lure people in, a decent story is what will ultimately persuade a lot of any potential audience to give a film a shot. The pitch for this film, which seemed to be "It's like Inception but everyone's in really, really short skirts" didn't seem to appeal to a lot of people. Unless they're 12-year-old boys or men who really identify with Humbert Humbert.

Kim Hollis: There were elements of this movie that should have been cause for excitement. I saw the airships and dragons and thought, "ooh, nifty." On the other hand, I also knew that I was in for plenty of slo-mo silliness and there wasn't a real clarity about what the movie *was*. When you're trying to combine all of action-adventure-girl power-imagination-burlesque-musical-live action anime, you risk turning off the masses. Having seen the film, I don't even know what to say about it. It's certainly not good. It's absolutely pointless and humorless, to be sure. Yet I've been talking about it - mainly all the things that I think would make it a good film. I do think that it's a movie that people will remember in the future - maybe not in a wholly good way, but I can see it being something that is discussed, at least.

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