Mina und die Traumzauberer

A young girl dealing with the introduction of a new stepmother and sister finds a way to manipulate people via their dreams.

This sounds like a great idea with lots of scope for fantastic dream worlds: a real chance to let ones imagination run wild.

This is not that film. The film is centered around the girls change in family circumstances; the dream world is little more than a mechanic to explore her relationships and is not particularity interesting or detailed. Instead this feels very much like an educational film, I half expected a teacher to appear in front of the animation and say "and that is how we learn sharing."

All the characters are very clearly defined by their roles to the point that they have no personality, only singular flaws to be arbitrated.

Thanks to Pixar many modern cartoons have elements designed to keep adults amused - this does not.

It is nice that a film is targeted directly at children and is something for them, but leaves adults glancing at their phones. Also, I wonder how many children want to spend their Saturday watching a well animated, hour-long episode of Sesame Street. I wouldn't have.

This is well animated and voice acted but lacks the care and attention that the big bucks of Pixar can afford and lacks the wildness of a true indie film.

I suppose this could be helpful if you are in the process of uniting two families together but I think going out for ice-cream or watching Monsters Inc. would be more effective.

The theme is identical to inside out movie but the story is different. Good concept. Nice animation and the climax of the movie is satisfying.

I really enjoy when movies are better than what I expected, and this movie seemed a lot more silly, and ended up being a tale about broken people who are being mean because of their traumas learning to emphitize with the other, and also, Minna falls into one of the greatest mistakes a human can have: trying to change someone else, it's clear that her attempts didn't fully worked, and she went from zero to psycho in a matter of hours because of this idea, and the movie clearly tells you that this is not correct, however, I don't like that the movie didn't point out how John is bad father for not supporting or listening to his daughter instead of just telling her to put on a "happy hat" after changing her whole life by bringing an uneducated girl who can't seem to conceal stuff, not even leaving a bed.

The animation is good. Not as good as a todays Pixar or Dreamworks movie but pretty damn good for a Danish production whose budget is definitely much lower. Major flaws are in facial expressions and in body movements. Ok, they are portraying Danish folks and as that you cannot expect Mediterranean expressions so this is not much of a problem (ok, I am joking but I am allowed to say that 'cause I lived 3 yy in Copenhagen and I love Danskerne).

As for the story it is a revisitation of something already seen but in a very different flavor. The idea could be something a Monster & Co but the development is totally new, to my knowledge.

1 star more than actually deserved because of the effort and the result totally lacking the unbearable attitude of todays American Studios, full of politically correct garbage and hidden (actually not so hidden) ideological inputs (see the fact that it is NOW impossible to have white characters even if the animation movie is set in France during Middle Age, see the very last Live Action Beauty and the beast).

Teen learns lucid dreaming and with help from machine elves hypnotizes family members, terrifying concept when you think about it, i kinda liked it, could have gone deeper though it's almost coraline in ways too.