My wife read the book a couple of months back - pretty massive. I watched parts of it last night but I was mostly working on my computers and reading Godel, Escher, Bach. I'm recording it on VHS, so I'll probably watch it sometime later this week.

Couple of impressions. First, the sound is very distracting. Lot's of stuff going on simultaneously which makes it disorienting and hard to get a lock on the dialog.

Second, my son watched some of it and thought it to be very violent. He especially disliked the man eating owls.