The most distinctive aspect of the book series is that we meet the young, Irish, superrich, super-genius Artemis Fowl while he’s already a part of his family’s vast criminal enterprise. In the movie, Artemis doesn’t start off as a criminal mastermind. There are simply too many changes from the book to the screen for us to chronicle in full, but let’s focus on seven of the most important: Those who are uninitiated into this book universe will probably be left wondering if the book series was just a mess to begin with (it was pretty fun … take it from a guy who once dressed up as Artemis Fowl for Halloween) and will be in need of some sort of guide to the baffling detours Disney took somewhere along the development process. As most reviews will tell you, the film itself is pretty much a Disney minus, a hodgepodge of ideas from Eoin Colfer’s original book series and clichéd studio movie tropes, the result of more than a little of the story’s connective tissue being left on the studio’s cutting-room floor. Seemingly years after anyone who grew up reading the Artemis Fowl books lost the ability to recall the series’ main characters’ names, Disney’s beleaguered adaptation of the futuristic-fairy YA series has been unceremoniously dumped on Disney+. Photo: Courtesy of Disney Enterprises, Inc. Okay, but this image does make me think Succession: Kids would be fun.
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