6/10
Entertaining teen fantasy with a cliffhanger
9 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I've always been attracted to Fantasy and dream type films so I clicked on this. Prime Video has it listed as 16 ➕, but I don't think that it would be inappropriate for maybe 13 14 15 year olds. It depends because this film has the theme of moving in and out of Dreams and of some scary ideas but nothing bloody or sexual or excessive bad language. I found it to be entertaining but more of a typical teen theme that was easy to follow and very superficial overall. A lot of it was in German but it was predominantly in English. The protagonist Liv was not my favorite character - I'm a little old-fashioned and I tire of seeing girls nowadays trying to look as boyish as possible, and in particular also being the love attraction of a good looking young man seemed out of place. But what do I know about youth nowadays or in Germany. Liv is, by necessity, the idiot who almost falls into a trap yet the film does not otherwise paint her as such an imbecile to fall so easily for such a simple scheme. I'm not sure at all the point of the sister since she is just a prop that is used very occasionally and usually just to show the girls sleeping or passing in the hallway at school. In the end of the film they actually dress her up to look like a girl and then they throw a cliffhanger at us. So if this film is popular enough they're sure to be a sequel. As far as it being based on a book, I have not read the book so I don't know how close it is to the book itself but I would say they chose the wrong protagonist for a series. I think people will find her boring in personality and appearance.
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