Excellent review. I'd have given this a 1.5 for effort maybe but really well put.

Yeah great review. I'd like to add the fact that whenever Snyder tried to do more than just slavishly ape the book, the results were terrible. This was particularly evident in the Manhattan story arc where a single panel off him holding a bra is changed into a scene in which he's staring at the bra with this puzzled 'what goes where!' expression. Also the collapsing of the scene where he drops the photograph and then sits down to meditate - in the film it looks like he's preparing to take a huge dump over the photo. The music was a transparent attempt at retard baiting - throw in songs that people like (or are at least considered respectably cerebral/kitschy and hilarious) and they will hopefully like the movie the songs are in.