Koning van Katoren

I would like to see an international remake of this movie... It touches on all the important issues of our times... Stach symbolizes human leadership...

This movie is based on a very popular Children's book which is not very complicated. The movie deviates to much from the book in my opinion. Very strong story lines in the book are replaces with generic events in order to make the movie shallow.

I do need to say that the movie does create the feeling of taking place in a existing country, having being filmed all over Europe.

If the movie had followed the story in the book it would have been better.

I loved the book and I love the movie. It's fun, it's modern, it takes the best parts from the story and it's refreshingly non-Hollywood. It's nice to see what the makers did with the book, they had to leave some of the challenges out but that does not feel like a miss. The country of Katoren has areas that are like Italy, like Austria and even like Arizona (with a Bijlmer like city in it!). The modern touch was fun and fitted well into the story. After all: Katoren is a fantasy country... they could have made it 100 pct animation, but instead it is our world, and then again not. Having read the book, the movie is easy to follow. Maybe this is less when you don't know the book. For me it was interesting to see how the challenges were worked out. The actors were also refreshing, like the mayor of Uikemene and his family. Recommended for everybody who has read the book!