Pun Salad

A PG fantasy adventure, this kept putting me to sleep.

A brief opening sequence sets up the idea: the world is going to Hell in a handbasket, so a group of scientists set up Ember, a city deep underground, designed to preserve a remnant of humanity for 200 years. For unlikely reasons, the inhabitants are (somehow) unaware of their situation; as far as they're concerned, the universe stops at the city limits.

Unfortunately, the process designed to release the Emberites back into the world after two centuries fails. Further decades pass, and it begins to be evident that Ember's infrastructure is crumbling, dooming the citizenry to death in the dark.

There are two plucky teens; will they discover the secret, find a way out, and save humanity? It would spoil things to tell you, but it's PG, so what do you think?

There are some good things here: the production design is outstanding, giving a rich and detailed feel of the once-proud, now-decaying city. Bill Murray plays Ember's corrupt mayor; he delivers his lines with a slight loopiness that's fun to watch. And Martin Landau has a pretty good minor role.

But that's about it.