It’s tv series not a movie but The Three Body Problem. The ideas are poorly thought out ass pulls to setup the weirdly specific situations the wittier wants.
At least the show makes the characters more interesting.
I don’t know about worse, but the Eragon books and movie are equally terrible.
I’m gonna mention “How to train your dragon”. I actually preferred the books, but they are very different and I know many people who much prefer the movie.
How do they differ? My kid loves the movies and I always thought about buying the books.
From what I remember, where the movie has a longer guy discover a powerful dragon and with that starts a classic hero arc, the books are about a guy who gets very unlucky and is generally not very impressive, but still manages again and again to sort of stumble through adventures. In the books every kid gets a dragon to train, as a kind of rite of initiation. The main character only manages to get a tiny, rather pathetic dragon with literally no teeth (hence the name toothless). And he and his dragon both stay kind of pathetic as big events happen around him, but he keeps managing to somehow save the day, but of course no one realises what he has done and thinks it a fluke that he survived at all.
I read only the first couple books, so maybe it changes after that, or maybe I’m misremembering things. I really liked the story, but it’s certainly quite different to the fairly traditional hero arc of the movie. If your kids loves the movie there’s a good chance the book would disappoint them.
Harry Potter, the movies are at least wizards do wizard stuff even if the world is pretty boring to me. The books on the other hand, are just straight up strange and mean. Reading them as kid they just sucked, I have no clue why they are so popular outside of the movies.
