This Netflix children's animation finds young Stevie trying to support her parents' fracturing marriage and her lively younger brother Elliot, who discovers a magical book at a local antiquities store about The Sandman and making dreams come true, which sets them off on a wild quest of discovery, adventure and imagination to find him in their (shared|) dreams and nightmares. The film is a colourful, madcap, free-flowing series of ideas that flits between dreamworld and (occasionally) real world and plays like an e-numbers-fuelled fever fantasy. The sheer weight of the number of visual ideas and their rapid-fire delivery becomes exhausting quickly, all confusingly juxtaposed with the very real trauma of childhood parental separation anxiety, and by the end it seems like an awful lot of bluster for its basic 'life isn't perfect' messaging. A short mid-end-credits sequence sends up the whole premise in (literally) throwaway fashion.
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