I just returned home from the movie theater where I watched John Carter. In a word, it was AMAZING!! The most purely adventurous movie I have seen since I was a kid watching Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars. It is the kind of action, adventure, romance, spectacle that you can take both your friends and your family to and everyone will enjoy themselves. Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall E) knocked his first live action movie out of the park!!
If you are not familiar with John Carter, it is based on Edgar Rice Burrows' (Tarzan) classic space fantasy "A Princess of Mars". If you like pretty much any space fantasy book or movie, you can thank "A Princess of Mars", which was written ninety five years ago, for inspiring those books and movies. If you feel like the trailers look like movies you have seen before, it's because it's been 'borrowed' from by everything from Superman to Avatar(which is probably 95% A Princess of Mars)!
Here is the trailer for John Carter, but I have to tell you that it doesn't even come close to doing the movie justice. This is one of those movies that you can't really explain in a two minute long trailer.
I walked out of John Carter with a huge smile on my face and determined to watch it again this weekend with my wife and my brother!