This trashy family fantasy – in which a lonely girl hunts giants in a handily creepy forest – confuses fake jeopardy with dramaThere should be a separate genre heading for this film: time-wasting droopy fantasy.
It is based on a graphic novel by Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura and directed by the Danish film-maker Anders Walter, who won an Oscar in 2014 for his short film Helium.
From the outset, there is a heart-sinking sense of deja vu.
Ja Bayona’s recent movie A Monster Calls – about a child retreating from emotional pain into CGI fantasy – had a certain storytelling force.
But this awfully similar confection is flaccid: a pointless parade of unearned emotion, unearned drama, unearned everything.Madison Wolfe plays Barbara, a lonely and troubled girl who regularly roams through the nearby forest hunting for “giants”, which we periodically get to see – sub-Iron-Giant/dementors.
But there is no question of us,
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