Review: "Ender's Game" is fun despite controvercial author

"Ender's Game" PG 13
     Orson Scott Card's novels come to the screen in the Ender saga's first installment, and Summit's second use of the material from a homophobic author, the first being Twilight and Stephanie Meyer, (but Meyer had nothing to do with this).
     Ender's Game is based on the first book of a series of military science fiction novels from the 1980s to the late 2000s called the Ender saga, by Orson Scott Card. The director, co-writer, is Gavin Hood, who wrote that X Men Origins movie. Harrison Ford is in it as well as some famous adults, but it's not about them. The only well known child star is Abigail Breslin, as most of the children in it are not well known.
     The story is set 50 years after the Bugger war, (as it should have been called like in the book), but in the movie it is the Fornacis war, take what you will from either of those names, where these insect like aliens somehow defeat future Earth and yet leave, so the heroes can rebuild and form a battle school to fight aliens.  The idea is simple enough, sort of a Power Rangers meets the Matrix movie, and like Twilight has a lot of well chiseled young men in battle play running about in tight fitting suits, and a gratuitous shower scene fight, which is not in the novel, to let the squeamish audience know it is really manly. Ender even has to be interested in the girl so he doesn't appear to be gay, but clearly his enemies are jealous of her, not him, and it only make you wonder if he actually is gay, which would not be Cards' intent! Ha. So it ends up being funny how they keep trying not to be gay in this, and failing.
     Ender ends up playing a game that seems very real and is trained to fight the bugs on the eventually mission to the planet of the bugs. No spoilers.
 
Guest critic review by Kal Kat