Muumit Rivieralla

The movie is so bad I reactivated my IMDb account just to write this review.

I suppose this film is for serious Moomins fans. The only positive thing I can say is the colour and painting are beautiful.

The story is not even continuous. The voice acting is worse than that of kids TV. I was of high anticipation of the film, and I really wanted to care for these characters, but half way through the movie I just gave up. These characters are too bohemian for my liking, and too forgiving for everything just to pick up the pace of the movie.

So in conclusion, I hate this film.

Beautiful backgrounds and colour design, but everything else was bad. I didn't like the movie much at all.

The script, voice acting and pacing/storytelling were especially bad. Also the character animation was mediocre and lifeless.

It desperately needed a proper English localisation & casting/voice direction, or just leave it in Finnish/Swedish with subs.The English voices were fairly weak, especially Moomin himself.

I thought the script was lazy and messy - the way they throw in Tove Jansson quotes/jokes with no context or the wrong context annoyed me so much. They didn't turn the material into a movie script at all.

Note: I'm a big Moomin fan AND very critical of animated movies so maybe other people would like it way more than me?

P.S You know what? If you're a Moomin fan, the movie -IS- worth seeing, for the opening titles with Snufkin alone.

I so wanted to like this film. The books, the fuzzy-felt TV series, even the newer young children's books are all fabulous.

Presumably the original Finnish version is up to scratch. Visually it's great, the music's pretty good. The English version though is appalling. The translation is dry and humourless and voice acting poor. Where is the subtle characterisation of the originals - shouldn't the Snorkmaiden be coquettish and slightly insecure rather than just a cow? I do a better Moominpappa reading the stories to my boy than the voice actor here.

The worst thing is that this vandalism must have been done by a team that just don't "get" the Moomins. They should be treasured, not treated like this.

Just for you. Didnt want to break my promise.

legit the only movie that gave my child nightmares, besides when the horse dies in the neverending story.

I am a big Moomin fan and this movie was just terrible. The only good thing about it was the cartoon drawing style, even I will always love the original Finnish moomins cartoon. The voice actors seemed to have no personality at all, or fit the characters they were doing the voices for, and the plot was boring i couldn't even finish the 30 minutes of the film. Highly disappointed.