Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

cricketbat The Lovely Bones is a hard movie to watch, especially for parents. Peter Jackson does a great job of creating suspense and stressful situations, and Stanley Tucci is amazingly creepy. While the visuals were stunning, I felt that the filmmakers spent too much time showcasing how cool they could make things look. This movie was longer than it needed to be. Also, I wasn't satisfied with the conclusion of the film.

DianaMEP Oh, please. Don't waste your time. The movie has a lot of potential that never comes to fruition. It's excessively long, dragged out and never fully satisfies. It just drags on ad nauseum, jumping frantically between earth and the astral plane, taking forever to resolve all the conflict. I feel sorry for the top-notch cast whose solid performances could not redeem this disaster. Watch Ghost one more time instead.

Tweetienator The Lovely Bones is the right movie if you like fantasy, melancholy, and experiments, Jackson's work is a very fine balanced mix of fantasy, drama, and thriller: a dead girl must find her way to find peace and let go of the past, a family in despair trying to cope with the loss and trying to find the body of her missing daughter. And there is, of course, the question if the killer will get his punishment.Mr. Jackson, of course, knows his business and the cast (Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon, and Stanley Tucci as the sicko) just plays fine and touching. Also, the scenes playing in the afterworld are fine crafted eye-candy.Some viewers seem to feel offended by the mixture of child-abuse and -killing and the redeeming part of the after-world scenes, I personally don't see it that way, for me, The Lovely Bones is poetry in motion pictures. If you like to watch touching and emotional movies, this is one for you, you will get the whole range of human emotions: sadness, loss, anger, despair, happiness, love. For the connoisseur of the unusual, The Lovely Bones is - lovely.

John Benner 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).