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The first of Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl books concerns a largely unrepentant criminal mastermind in its 12-year-old hero, but his illegal edges have been considerably softened for his film debut. It makes one of children’s literature’s foremost rotters less fun than he should be, in the first of a number of storytelling missteps in Kenneth Branagh’s big-budget adaptation. Set in Ireland (the film plays fast and loose with the country’s geography), this Fowl family only steal to safeguard certain items and preserve the balance between the fairy and human worlds: the Rosetta Stone, Book Of Kells and something called an “Aculos”. That’s a magical object named as the ransom demand when the globe-trotting Artemis Fowl Sr (Colin Farrell, underused) is kidnapped by a shadowy figure identifed only as Opal Koboi (the book series’ big bad). Young super-genius Artemis (Ferdia Shaw) and his trusty right-hand man Domovoi Butler (Nonso Anozie) have to find the Aculos, which for some reason they do ...
