As a result, it's difficult to become engrossed in the story's central journey or to care much about the fate of the people of Ember when you don't understand why they're all so naive, complacent and incurious. What do they do with their dead? Or their sick? What about criminals? There's been no robbery, rape or murder after being cooped up together underground for two centuries? Hell, forget all that - what about toilet paper?! The script by Caroline Thompson never allows the viewer to get to know any of the characters particularly well.
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Indeed, many of its conceptual flaws and lapses in logic related to living in an underground city for 200 years might have been forgiven if it were "just a cartoon." It's simply tough to suspend one's disbelief - and the movie never tries hard enough to not make you question things - that people could survive on green house plants and canned food for so long or that they don't know a thing about the surface world. While the imaginative Kenan deserves kudos for making the leap to live-action after his acclaimed performance-capture family film Monster House, City of Ember may have been better suited as a CG-animated tale. Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Clary, and Mary Kay Place appears as Mrs. Tim Robbins co-stars as Doon's mechanically-inclined dad, while Martin Landau provides additional comic relief as Doon's elderly co-worker Sol. Incurring the wrath of the mayor and his cronies (Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook) adds a sense of urgency to Lina and Doon's need to escape the City of Ember. The kids also discover that the city's beloved, all-powerful Mayor (Bill Murray) is not as good-intentioned as the loyal and law-abiding denizens have been led to believe.
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They soon realize that the box holds a long lost secret left behind centuries before by the city's venerable Builders: a now badly tattered set of instructions on how to escape the crumbling city. Lina asks Doon for help in deciphering the clues in the box. Meanwhile, Lina finds a mysterious old box in her grandmother's closet, but her Granny (Liz Smith) has no recollection of why it is so vitally important. Doon hopes to find a way to save the generator and thus his beloved city. The citizens of Ember only work one job - assigned to them in a lottery on their Assignment Day - for their whole lives Lina is a messenger, while Doon works in the Pipeworks.
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