Gavin Grades The Movies  The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
(Rated: PG-13)  It's interesting to see a movie based on a book
that you're only halfway through reading.  It's like you get the
best of both world.  You get to be one of the book snobs that
says, "the book was so much better than the movie," and you also
get to enjoy the ending as you expierence it for the first time.
 This was what I got to go through for The Mortal Instruments.
 My wife is obsessed with the book series more than she was
obsessed with Twilight or Harry Potter.  She insisted I read
them as well.  Since I drag ass on reading, the movie came out
faster than I could finish it but I think that might be the best
way to objectively view this film.  Ever since, Harry Potter was
the massive cultural phenomonen that it was, movie studios have
been in a fevered quest to find the next big hit in teen
fiction.  Some times they hit a homerun like they did with
Twilight and other times they fail miserably like Percy Jackson.
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