PG-13
Stephanie Meyer, the incredibly popular author of "The Twilight" series, is at it again. She wrote the novel "The Host", which this movie is based on. She once again focuses on the young female genre for her audience. This movie is about aliens that have come to earth to take over the human race. Their motivation is to find humans and implant them with a glowing centipede type of creature that completely alters and takes over their body and their identity! After the alien transformation takes place, the victims eye color changes to a bright blue with a white circle around it. As with the "Twilight" series, she centers her main character around a beautiful young woman, Melanie/Wanda (Saoirse Ronan), as a very conflicted young woman who has had her body taken over by the aliens also know as the "Seekers"! However, her real identity as Melanie has remained alive and now she and her body host Wanda as a new personality inside her body. Wanda has more dominion than Melanie and therefore is stronger than her. Melanie has to learn to accept this condition and move forward to try and save her younger brother and the few remaining family and friends that are hiding in a remote mountain bunker, before they are discovered and taken over as well. After the transformation takes place, she manages to escape her captors and heads out to find her people. She has an internal struggle with Wanda and ends up in a bad car wreck out in the middle of nowhere. When the Seekers discover she is missing, they set out to find her to bring her back. After wandering in the desert aimlessly for a couple of days, her people find her and take her back where she is safe with them. When they discover she has been transformed and her eyes are different, many of them do not trust her and they are reluctant to have her there with them and feel that she is a threat.
Now it gets even more complicated. Melanie had previously been in a relationship with a very handsome young man named Jared (Max Irons), now he is angry and feels that he has been betrayed and has lost her forever. Next enter Ian (Jake Abel) also a very handsome young man who takes sympathy on her, befriends her and starts to have a relationship with Wanda. This becomes very strange and uncomfortable. She finds herself able to turn on her Melanie personality for Jared and her Wanda personality for Ian. A unique and unusual love triangle to say the least.
All in all, it was a very different movie. It did keep my interest and I found the plot and the story unique. This movie will definitely appeal to the young female audiences! After the screening of the movie was over, the young audience erupted in applause! My own daughter went with me to the screening and she had read the book three times! She was very excited to see it and was curious to see how they were going to portray the book on screen. She enjoyed the movie but liked the book a lot more.
I would recommend this movie for children twelve and over. There are some disturbing images, some sexual situations and some scary situations.
I am giving "The Host" two and a half bags of popcorn!
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