The movie is loosely based on the book, but cresseta cowl still gets paid no matter how loosely your o mterial is adapt um. This is a fun, goofe book for boys, like kind of reluctant reader, boys, which comes with a whole bunch of startypical baggage about what young boys are interested in. A but it does hit those notes pretty squarely for a book from two thousand and three,. In terms of stinky and poopy and dumb names and a some action, but mostly like cool characters and monsters and the that's coono what this book is up to. And i don't like thay, they'd seem like multicolored fever