Manthast Absolutely amazing

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

fafff I enjoyed this film's artwork and my 7-year-old daughter enjoyed it too. However, I found the main premise - that a 6-year-old boy who isn't yet reading ought to be pressurized into doing so - quite troubling.The reality is that children have a very wide natural time range for learning to read, even wider than they have for learning to walk or talk. Some children learn at 3, some at 12 or 13. The late readers catch up very quickly with early ones, and are none the worse for it.Yet everyone in the film, including the parents, is worried about the boy not yet reading fluently. He's still so little! I loved the references to imagination in the story, and I think it should have focused wholly on that instead.

Rectangular_businessman This was such an enjoyable animated film, with a very a nice story and a pleasant visual style.Even when the story could seem to be a bit simple at first sight, it actually has many wonderful qualities, that made it charming and captivating.I think that now more than ever is a good thing to teach the kids about the marvels of reading and imagination, and about the importance of the stories to be preserves by future generations. In that aspect, this movie did an incredible work, being much better done and more honest that many other movies with a similar message.It is also a very entertaining fantasy flick, with many interesting characters and a good balance of humor and adventure, not to mention the very pleasant visual style that this movie had, making it a nice and delightful animated film for the whole family with lots of heart.I highly recommend it.

samarshall I viewed this film with my 9-yr old daughter as part of the 2012 DC Filmfest. We both loved it for its heartwarming story and the outstanding animation. Originally made in French, the version which we saw is entirely in English with no subtitles. Through the generosity of Aunt Eleanor, Nat is introduced to many of the characters of classic literature, such as Alice (of Wonderland), the White Rabbit, Pinocchio, Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, and the Little Match Girl. His vivid imagination makes up for being very slow to learn how to read, about which his older sister teases him without mercy. The setting on the beach allows the adventurers to encounter some creatures who add to the suspense as time is running out to save the day. We highly recommend this to be seen with your family.

Europeancinema I love Rebecca Dautremer's drawings. It is especially the drawings that make this film worth watching. The story is fine too. It is about a boy who can't read, but whose aunt always read him stories. When the aunt dies, he inherits her library. Then, the stories come to life and he has to fulfill a quest. If you want to see all those characters, like Alice and the white rabbit, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, giants and witches, in a style different from Disney's, then I recommend you watch this movie. My kids loved it too. They watched it nothing short of three times and were unhappy that I had to bring it back to the video rental store.