Slumberland review: Is Jason Momoa's Netflix fantasy worth a watch?
is that it ends up spending so much time explaining its unique world that it forgets to have fun in it.
We do get set pieces in various dreams that have some visual flourishes, like dancers made up of butterflies, but every setting is drowned in sub-par digital effects. The movie revisits the same dreams and while there's a story reason for that, it's disappointing: being set in an endless world of dreams should be more imaginative.
We're told – in one of several exposition dumps – that if Nemo dies in another person's dream, she dies for real to inject some peril. Yet she never feels truly in danger in the obviously fake surroundings, chased by aIt doesn't help that despite all the efforts to craft its own world logics that the movie sometimes breaks its own rules. You could just not think about it too much and enjoy the ride, but the ride is so lacklustre that your mind will be drawn to the inconsistencies.
For all the disappointment of the world and the set pieces, the movie does have a strong emotional core. It might almost be a cheat to cast Kyle Chandler as another earnest father , but his scenes with Barkley are affecting all the same and tie the themes of the movie together nicely.might be aimed more at younger audiences, but anybody watching who's lost a parent will shed a tear.
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