Dreambuilders (2020)

Inside Out meets Monsters Inc. Dreambuilders is a Pixar-esque movie full of heart and magic as we follow a young girl who can control dreams.

From the animation team behind Big Hero 6 and Sherlock Holmes, this beautiful and mesmerising animation explores the world behind dreams in which the Dreambuilders create our imaginations on stage. A story full of heart and magic that the whole family will love.

Synopsis

Minna is a young girl who discovers the ability to create and control other people’s dreams, but how will she use this power now her bothersome stepsister is in the picture?

Review – Contains spoilers

The film is billed as Inside Out meetings Monsters Inc and I couldn’t agree more with the Inside Out reference. The film feels like an extension to what would happen when Ryley goes to sleep!

The film is not fast-paced and a fair amount of dialogue so any child having issues sitting through a whole film may struggle with this one.

Based around a girl, Minna, who is living with just her father as her mother left them some years ago. Her father has a new girlfriend and she and her daughter, Jenny, move in and everything goes to pot!

Jenny is everything Minna is not, and a spoilt brat to boot! I started to struggle to watch the film at first as Jenny was just horrid! Not making an effort, constantly on her phone taking selfies, taking pictures of Minna and making fun of her clothes, her hamster – who she wants to put in a shelter!

This vile child will win your heart believe it or not and make you release that children act out for a reason, and then you feel bad for being Judgy McJudgy Pants!

Whilst dreaming of playing chess with her father, Minna somehow crashes her Chessboard into the dream world wall and soon realises that others create her dreams! It did feel like the dream scene in Inside Out. These characters direct dreams and then wake the dreamer up again when it’s finished.

Minna realises, having dropped accidentally into her father’s dream, that she can influence real life and the subconscious by altering the dream and that’s where all the troubles begins.

Trying to ‘fix’ Jenny she only succeeds in placing her in a coma!

With that, the film takes a turn where you start with feeling for Minna to then frowning about her actions to going back to caring about her again.

A real turmoil of emotions run through the girls and the family and Jenny’s story of why her parents are no longer together help explain (maybe not excuse!) the pain she is feeling and why she is acting out the way she is. My 9-year-old was quite shocked at how mean she could be!

If you can get past watching Jenny acting a brat for the first 15 minutes or so of the film, you can get through the remaining hour and 5 minutes.

Animation, Adventure | Norway, 2020 | U | DVD, Digital HD | 16th November 2020 (UK) | Signature Entertainment | Dir. Kim Hagen Jensen, Tonni Zinck | Robyn Dempsey, Emma Jenkins, Luke Griffin


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