This movie presents especially for younger children up to 10 or 11 a very good mixture of adventure and fantasy, if one does not forget that it was made several years ago and therefore the effects aren't as impressive as nowadays. Thank god this movie does not follow the idea of the terribly retold fairy tales from Disney.
An old detective superintendent retires and discovers shortly after wards together with his grandchildren a secret, connected to an old chair, he got as a present for his retirement. This chair is the entrance to the world of fairy tales, introducing names as Grimm, Hauff and Bechstein to children. Now it is left to the grandfather and his grandchildren to save the king of the fairy tales - world and defeat the black magician who wants to conquer the throne.
A well written plot plus funny dialogs, which are especially appealing to and suitable for children, make this movie a nice film in opposition to the forced moralized fairytale-mutilations from Disney and Pixar.
