Friday, 16 December 2022

VOD: Slumberland (dir: Francis Lawrence, 2022)

"School is not a prison!"
"Can I leave whenever I want to?"

This Netflix CGI-fuelled fantasy epic about dreams and storytelling focuses on 11-year-old Nemo, who lives in a lighthouse with her father, but a life-changing tragedy sees her moving to the big city to live with her estranged uncle.  One night, her toy pig and her bed come to life, setting in motion a set of fantastical adventures in the dream world Slumberland with a larger-than-life character Flip from her father's bedtime stories.  Jason Momoa plays flip with a gruff relish, but this very simple story is dragged out for over two hours as it lurches from one pointless and empty set piece to the next in a rather emotionally unengaging manner in this expensively hollow spectacle.
 

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