I have put this on another board but it should be here as well:
It's wonderful - it would be beautiful to watch even if the story had been dull, but the story is not dull; it's perfect. I watched it twice in the space of a couple of weeks and I want to see it again already.
I do not know the book - I don't know why because it is just my sort of thing.
Really it's a film for all the family, in a way that most films for all the family are not: Jonjel, you could watch it with your grandchildren and get just as much from it as they will, if not more. But you could watch it on your own as well, it doesn't matter. Just watch it; it's truly amazing.