Director: Francis Lawrence
Genre: Family/
Adventure
Runtime: 117
minutes
Year:
2022
Starring: Marlow Barkley, Jason Momoa, Chris O’Dowd, Kyle Chandler, Weruche Opia,
India de Beaufort
Description: A young girl (Marlow Barkley) discovers a secret map
to the dreamworld Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw (Jason Momoa),
she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able
to see her late father (Kyle Chandler) again.
Review: In “Slumberland”, we follow hermit daughter Nemo, who after her father’s
sudden death is sent to her uncle Philip in the city where she discovers that
her father’s robber stories were not made up. Together with her father’s robber
buddy Flip, Nemo travels through Slumberland to the Sea of Nightmares in search
of a magical pearl.
Slumberland is the land you
enter when you fall asleep and consists of a dream made especially for you. However,
Nemo’s father and Flip have stolen a map that gives them access to not only their
own dreams, but also the dreams of others. Agent Green has been chasing Flip
for years because of the stolen map, and Nemo herself is found to have a deadly
nightmare hunting her. These factors are gradually introduced in the first
strange dreams in which Flip and Nemo find themselves.
Despite the excessive use of
CGI in the dream world, the film remains entertaining because of the excellent
characters. Each character has an entirely unique personality that, with the
exception of Flip, are all highly entertaining. For example, Nemo is a
wonderfully smart eleven-year-old and Philip is a delightfully awkward doorknob
salesman. Flip is the character I liked the least, because although he is the
good guy and played with charm by Jason Momoa, his physical humor is not nearly
as entertaining as the film seems to think. Just too much time, especially in
the first hour, is spent on Flip’s uninteresting rambling though the dream world.
Nemo and her little friend
Pig are definitely the stars of the film, with Philip becoming a character you
come to understand more once you get to know him better. And I love what they
did with his character. He is a more important character then you might think.
“Slumberland” is a family
fantasy film with extra layers, that can be enjoyed with the entire family.
Rating: 3, 5/ 5
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