DREAMBUILDERS (U)
A RESOURCEFUL girl abuses the power to shape her night-time imaginings in a colourful Danish computeranimated adventure co-directed by Kim Hagen Jensen and Tonni Zinck.
Dubbed into English language for its cinema release, Dreambuilders teaches wholesome messages of sisterhood, compassion and compromise, which are laced with sticky sentiment.
Minna (voiced by Robyn Dempsey) is a caring and sensitive girl, who shares a seemingly unbreakable bond with her father, John (Tom Hale).They are a close-knit unit, taking on the world side by side after Minna’s mother, celebrated singer Karen Mitchles (Alberte Winding), abandons them to chase her musical dreams.
The relationship is threatened by the arrival of John’s new partner Helene (Karen Ardiff) and her selfish, social media-obsessed daughter Jenny (Emma Jenkins).
Spiteful Jenny makes everyone’s lives a misery and threatens to have Minna’s beloved pet hamster sent to an animal shelter.
That night, Minna escapes harsh reality in her sleep and the girl discovers that her slumbering fantasies are created on a hand-built and painted set each night by a dreambuilder called Gaff (Luke Griffin) and his army of dream-bots.
Minna learns she can gatecrash other dreams and the girl resolves to teach selfie-snapping arch-nemesis Jenny a lesson.