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	"Dreamcatcher" - Salon
		So it's a strange feeling to be watching a movie where aliens invade people's bodies, gestate and then make their way out via the poop chute, and to be watching it not in some grindhouse but in a plush studio screening room.
		The movie is so conscious of itself as a big movie that it doesn't have any of the gross, disreputable humor that a director like Raimi or Gordon would have brought it.
		The movie revels in adolescent gross-outs (all overlaid with an aura of morbidity) and the sentimentality that dogs King.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2003/03/21/dreamcatcher/index.html (931 words)

	The Dickinsonian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		You know a movie’s bad when a group of characters are trying to save the planet, and you could care less about the global population’s survival, let alone whether or not the characters survive.
		The movie’s simultaneously running storylines are fun to keep track of as the movie shifts from one to another, and Kasdan is also successful in concocting some thrills and chills.
		Movies can be distilled to and critiqued by just two defining elements: how good the story is (the screenwriter’s job), and how well it was told (chiefly the director, as well as everyone else’s job, from the leading star to the composer).
	www.dickinson.edu /dsonian/11April2003/HeSaidCoreDreamcatcher.html (1084 words)

	Movie Review: Dreamcatcher
		Dreamcatcher tells the story of five friends who have known each other since their school days in a small town in Maine.
		Dreamcatcher boasts a competent cast, not the least of whom are Morgan Freeman (Colonel Curtis) as a commander willing to do anything to fulfill his mission, and Tom Sizemore (Owen Underhill) as the man the Colonel intends to take over his elite unit when the time comes.
		This is not a movie for children or for the squeamish of any age.
	www.ladylibrty.com /movie_review_archives/2003/dreamcatcher.html (655 words)

	Dreamcatcher
		Dreamcatcher is the story of an alien invasion, and of a group of friends that find themselves right in the middle of it.
		Dreamcatcher is a surprisingly bloody movie that rips off Alien while having the audacity to reference it.
		It's not the kind movie that is thought-provoking, but the kind where somebody neglects their brain for a couple hours and watch people kill aliens by shooting them, setting them on fire, and stepping on them.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/dreamcatcher.html (560 words)

	Dreamcatcher (2003)
		“Dreamcatcher,” the book by Stephen King, derived much of the horror of its alien invasion by letting it be the backdrop to the story of four living, breathing, three-dimensional characters who would have been interesting for over 800 pages even without shit-weasels and plagues of red alien fungus.
		The alien baddies are quite icky and creepy, but they’re the kind of “monster movie” monsters who gnash their teeth and snarl at the camera exactly on cue, and never seem to pose much of a threat because, well, they’re so obviously directed.
		Dreamcatcher is not really a terrible film and I tentatively recommend it, if you’re into slimy CGI creatures, gorgeous cinematography, and alien exploding out of people’s asses#151;which I am (into all that stuff, that is, not an alien exploding out of someone’s ass).
	www.moviepie.com /rent/dreamcatcher.htm (695 words)

	The Urbanwire Movie Dreamcatcher
		Be prepared for the aliens in Dreamcatcher to be a cross between Aliens and Blade 2 however.
		But once the aliens make their appearance, and when the military marches onto the scene, the movie gets a bit messy and all is left of it is the humans fighting with the aliens all over the place, and the final battle scene with the mother alien.
		Dreamcatcher the movie is true to the book, bringing all that was written faithfully to the big screen.
	www.theurbanwire.com /apr03/dream.html (434 words)

	dragonsworn [movie review] - Dreamcatcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		'Dreamcatcher' is just a dismal failure which had every chance to be good movie, but stubbornly avoided all of them.
		Sizemore, as his second in command, does his standard stoic hero routine, but it adds little to the movie, and comes of as wooden in general.
		The entire movie falls apart in the second act, as Kasdan can't manage to keep the separate plot lines interesting.
	www.dragonsworn.com /reviews/movies/dreamcatcher.html (719 words)

	The Game Mechanics: Movie Review: Dreamcatcher
		Dreamcatcher is about four friends who gained psychic powers in their childhood.
		I had no problems with that, considering it was a Stephen King movie, obviously dealing with themes he enjoys, and considering that all four grew up together in Derry, Maine, a setting familiar to all King-philes and abounding in weirdness.
		At the beginning of the movie, one of the men gets hit by a car and has a vision of someone they all knew as children.
	www.thegamemechanics.com /opinion/movie-dreamcatcher.asp (1638 words)

	Dreamcatcher - DVD Movie Central
		Dreamcatcher also happens to have a great deal of character development, as the story centers in closely on the four men before and during their trip to the woods.
		Movies like this aren’t made that often, and I feel the gimmick of mixing in two kinds of stories into the same movie, and involving the same characters is a much fascinating one.
		Dreamcatcher is definitive proof that you can have character development and excessive gore in the same film, to help add up to a bloody good time.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/dreamcatcher.htm (903 words)

	Modamag.com \| Dreamcatcher (Movie Review)
		“Dreamcatcher” has the distinction of being the first book Stephen King wrote after the terrible incident in 1999, when he was struck, and nearly killed, by a distracted driver while out for a walk.
		It is also a big, old fashioned, B-level monster movie, ripped from the 1950s, complete with severe, John Wayne loving army generals and a distinct (and welcomed) lack of pretension in dealing with the appearance of the weasels.
		Judging it solely as a movie, however, “Dreamcatcher” is riveting genre entertainment, and is well-made all around (including marvelous winter photography by John Seale).
	www.modamag.com /dreamcatcher.htm (638 words)

	Dreamcatcher Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dreamcatcher didn't do especially well in the theaters, and received a sound drubbing from the critics, but it's still worth watching.
		He also notes that having the men first encounter the alien in the cabin's bathroom is rather novel, as the bathroom's privacy has always been sacrosanct in people's minds (and it's also the place where people discover things like tumors on their own bodies).
		In all fairness, though, the movie's shortcomings spring from the messy, overambitious nature of the source material, which recycles several of Stephen King's ideas from over the years.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=135756&Tab=DVD (1923 words)

	Dreamcatcher movie review
		Dreamcatcher is one of those films that is exceedingly tough to review without giving something away.
		The four of them take a hunting trip and are hit by a blizzard, but the snow turns out to be the least of their problems out in the woods.
		The reason for our dilemna is that the movie almost goes a bit too far at points, some of the things you're going to see are really out there.
	www.moviesforguys.com /horror/reviews/dreamcatcher.shtml (396 words)

	Dreamcatcher Movie Review
		Dreamcatcher is based on the Stephen King novella of the same name, and this adaptation was written by Mr.
		Certainly, Dreamcatcher is reminiscent of his own Stand By Me (the innocence of childhood here isn't nearly as effective) and It (with it's depiction of lifelong friends banning together to overthrow evil).
		Dreamcatcher is also full of big special effects, or maybe I should just say effects, because they really aren't all that special.
	www.zboneman.com /movies/118.html (988 words)

	Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Dreamcatcher
		Dreamcatcher, William Goldman's screen adaptation of Stephen King's gargantuan novel of the same name, is a sprawling mess of a film that flounders around on the screen until its viewers succumb to either sheer boredom or utter confusion.
		This is the point in the movie at which Goldman and director Kasdan lose their grip on the story.
		The last 45 minutes of Dreamcatcher become such a jumbled conglomeration of disconnected subplots and meaningless leftover thoughts that by the time the credits rolled I felt as if I'd been subjected to a two-hour interview with Charles Manson.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/dreamcatcher.htm (675 words)

	Dreamcatcher (Soundtrack) by James Newton Howard
		Lawrence Kasdan’s Dreamcatcher faded from the box office barely after it was spooled in projectors around the nation.
		Dreamcatcher also had one of today’s leading film composers in its talent pool.
		All artwork from Dreamcatcher is exclusive property of Varese Sarabande Records (c) 2002.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/dreamcatcher.htm (760 words)

	'Dreamcatcher' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
		"Dreamcatcher" is not only based on a Stephen King novel, the first he wrote after his near-fatal 1999 accident; the experience of watching it also uncannily duplicates what it feels like to read one.
		As directed by Lawrence Kasdan, "Dreamcatcher's" science-fiction story of a group of childhood friends, now all grown up, in whose hands is placed the future of the planet is told with the same ungainly mixture of tones and sensibilities that characterizes King's books.
		The ones in "Dreamcatcher" are nasty enough to disturb the unwary, courtesy of a reported 400 visual-effects shots made by a postproduction group that rivaled the shooting crew for size.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-turan21mar21,0,2099497.story (672 words)

	MOVIE - DREAMCATCHER - Review Rating - $$$$$ $1/2 (OUT OF 10)
		Dreamcatcher retains just enough of King's signature style to be a watchable movie.
		What saves Dreamcatcher is that the underlying story is strong enough to maintain your interest and the movie is relatively well-paced, though it verges on the long side.
		That being said, Dreamcatcher is much better than most of the movies currently in release, and thus warrants a recommendation.
	radio.weblogs.com /0108788/stories/2003/03/25/movieDreamcatcherReviewRat.html (545 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Dreamcatcher Movie Review
		Dreamcatcher takes great delight in rattling King's favorite horror chains (fear of sitting on the toilet, for example), and his themes of friendship and trust, while shopworn, still hold a certain power.
		Other people put Dreamcatcher on-screen and they, not he, should reap the fruits of their labor.
		In that sense Dreamcatcher is unique among its contemporaries, even honorable in a weird way.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /dreamcatcher.html (894 words)

	dreamcatcher review - ** - movie views by jamey hughton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		And still that doesn’t even begin to describe “Dreamcatcher”, but to clear things up: the first movie is memorable, eerie and saturated with suspense, while the second movie is a wild mishmash that turns nauseatingly bad, smothering the threatening atmosphere that writer-director Lawrence Kasdan had calibrated so beautifully in the opening act.
		Suddenly, “Dreamcatcher” stops emulating “The Thing” and becomes a remote version of “Independence Day”, as well as a plague movie, a possession movie, and a cheesy CGI gorefest.
		But, that first movie - the one without the helicopters and giant CGI monstrosities - is sure a wonderful mood piece.
	www.movieviews.org /reviews/dreamcatcher.shtml (660 words)

	Dreamcatcher - www.ezboard.com
		Dreamcatcher the Movie was a chopped-up, disjointed mess.
		A few years ago he wrote a new screenplay for it...the movie ended up being something like 6 hours long and was much better in my opinion.
		The second movie was so much more in depth concerning the relationships between the characters.
	p069.ezboard.com /fyawhofrm1.showMessage?topicID=1141.topic (944 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Dreamcatcher at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The movie is about as true to the book as you can get, except for the ending which has been typically "Hollywoodized".
		I'll tell you this much, Dreamcatcher is no Misery; it doesn't have the simple plot that can be explained within the restriction of two hours, and to go too far in explaining many of the plots (assuming that they are included at all) waters down the tension.
		Unfortunately, it is inevitable that the movie will spread itself thin in certain areas; the entire military sideplot, for one, becomes superfluous in the transition, and I think it might have worked better as a movie if that whole thing had been omitted entirely.
	www.epinions.com /content_93525413508 (1765 words)

	Dreamcatcher review **1/2 - CTF
		Directed by Lawrence Kasdan ("Mumford" 1999), "Dreamcatcher" was another Stephen King novel turned film that failed to capture the depth and scope of the book.
		It didn't focus at all on the supernatural nature of the dreamcatcher, but instead used this ornament as a means to symbolize the bond between the central characters, and their purpose of filtering out the coming evil (aliens) from destroying humanity.
		The bond developed during childhood between the four characters who possessed the unique powers to fight the aliens was developed somewhat in the movie, but was focused on much less than in the book.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /Reviews/03/dreamcatcher_review.htm (465 words)

	Dreamcatcher Movie Review : D. Keith Robinson's Asterisk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The movie is a bit hard to pin down, as it’s got two very different, but related, story-lines going.
		I thought the movie was pretty good as far as Stephen King ventures go (though I hated “IT” and thought it was a terrible screenplay).
		It was like someone decided the movie had gone on too long and needed to end abruptly, so go and murder a brilliant story by arguably the greatest story teller alive.
	www.7nights.com /asterisk/archive/2003/10/dreamcatcher-movie-review (1175 words)

	Dreamcatcher movie review
		When the guys go to a remote cabin in the Maine woods for their annual huntin' and drinkin' weekend, the movie is at its best: the guys cook, drink beer, shoot the shit.
		Dreamcatcher, which I had heard was utter and total crap, turned out to be only half utter and total crap.
		Duddits is a beautiful gifted human who creates the dreamcatcher (the psychic network incorporating his four buddies) for the purpose of stopping the invasion.
	andrew_larrison.home.comcast.net /NewFiles/dreamcatcher.html (995 words)

	Dreamcatcher - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He could star in a movie like Road to Perdition and give merely an average performance, but critics would praise it as award-worthy, just because the movie was a glamour picture.
		One of the many unanswered questions about Dreamcatcher is why these four have decided to trudge up to the remotest part of Maine in the middle of winter.
		None of the movie's first half hour can be considered legitimately frightening, and most people who go to a Stephen King movie want to be scared senseless.
	www.tollbooth.org /2003/movies/dreamc.html (886 words)

	Movie Review: Dreamcatcher / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		So is it a case of "In Dreamcatcher did Kubla King a stately pleasure dome decree?" Well, not exactly, but whatever it is he ended up with is one of the strangest things you're likely to encounter any time soon.
		Dreamcatcher is also strangely connected – in horrific terms – to Kasdan's most famous film, The Big Chill, which revolved around a group of old friends gathering for a funeral.
		Dreamcatcher just happens to incorporate mayhem, alien invasions, a psychotic army colonel (no wonder some reviewers think his name is Kurtz and not Curtis!) and, if not the kitchen sink, then at least the bathroom toilet.
	www.mountainx.com /movies/d/dreamcatcher.php (1154 words)

	Movie: Dreamcatcher
		Dreamcatcher, which is based on King's novel about a hunting trip that leads to great nastiness, straddles the line between both types.
		And the movie's flashbacks to the four men's childhoods, while essential to the plot, are also corny (King excels at writing about children, but with the exception of Stand By Me, that stuff rarely fares well on the screen).
		And there's something to be said for a movie as cheerfully gory as this one that makes time for a scene in which a mother tells her only child, ``Be a good boy.
	ae.miami.com /entertainment/ui/miami/movie.html?id=92667&reviewId=11505 (696 words)

	Dreamcatcher reviewed on AudioRevolution.com
		Except for one scene, the movie didn't have King's personal past as part of its "furniture," and is essentially a lavish science fiction-horror movie that like the novel throws in some more-or-less fantasy elements (telepathy, precognition) to spice things up.
		In such movies, we usually follow those who are at the center of the action, but instead King, and the movie, at first focus on four men who are planning their annual hunting/palling around expedition to a log cabin deep in the Maine forest in the dead of winter.
		That is the complicated setup of "Dreamcatcher," a kind of messy scenario which in itself is not very compelling or exciting -- but the virtues, like the devil, are in the details.
	www.avrev.com /movies/dreamcatcher (1376 words)

	MJ Movie Reviews - Dreamcatcher (2003) by Ginger Vaughn
		Dreamcatcher is fairly straight adaptation of King’s novel, which, in my opinion, is one of author’s weakest books.
		Dreamcatcher is a train wreck of a movie made only because anything with “Based on a story by Stephen King” in its tag line will sell tickets…even if it fails in every conceivable way.
		The biggest shame about Dreamcatcher is that there is a lot of talent here, but the story is so bad to begin with that even good intentions and decent performances can’t elevate the film to passable.
	www.moviejustice.com /vault/index.php?p=getitem&db_id=4&item_id=401 (1004 words)

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