Arkie und die Stadt des Lichts

I took my year 9 students to watch this movie as part of a wellbeing day program. I didn't realise it was an Australian film, which was nice, seeing as I'm Australian.

There was a lot of potential, but I really struggled with the plot and dialogue/script. It could have been geared towards an older audience, but was too simplistic for myself, my colleagues and our students.

Certainly there are some big name actors providing voices, and kudos to them for supporting the Australian film industry.

Hopefully the Australian film industry will get stronger writers in. The talent exists, as witnessed by the many wonderful novels that come from local authors, maybe there isn't enough money at the moment to attract them.

As much as I want to support local, I can't (in good faith) recommend this movie.