My worries immediately shot up as I saw that the opening sequence of the film had no recognizable corollary to anything from the first Mars book. When I first heard that Disney was making a feature film based on the Mars books, I was both excited and worried. The Mars books were action-packed, filled with strange aliens, endangered princesses, and horrible monsters that always seemed to be in the way of our hero, John Carter, and his gigantic, green-skinned friend, Tars Tarkas. My father and grandfather had read them (in hardback), much earlier, and encouraged me to check out this exciting science-fiction series. I first encountered the John Carter/Mars/Barsoom books by Edgar Rice Burroughs through a series of paperback books I read when I was a kid. Tall Thark or Warhoon, you will notice the spoiler alert before you approach them. The following review does contain movie spoilers, but, as the spoilers are like a green-skinned, four-armed, 15-ft. John Carter Movie Review John Carter of Mars Movie Review Lynn Collins as the sword-wielding, butt-kicking Dejah Thoris from the John Carter movie In this, the 100th anniversary of the first publication of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Mars Series' of stories and novels, Disney released the John Carter movie on March 9, 2012.
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