Drømmebyggerne

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.

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.

"Drømmebyggerne" is a bored film with a slow script and a cheap story, it could be better. The animation is fine, some scenes are nice but there is no more to talk about this film.

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.

Dreambuilders is a very nice and relevant family movie. The plot is covering important issues regarding modern family constructions. It is both a beautiful and sad story. The animation is high quality for a Danish production.