![]() ![]() The map shows the way to the magic pearl that will locate her father, Peter, who left their lighthouse in a storm to aid a ship in distress. The piratical antihero is an outsize, untrustworthy character named Flip (Jason Momoa), who has ram’s horns, a steampunk wardrobe and a burning desire to steal the map that Nemo has found in her travels between dreams and reality. The mythic search for her father (Kyle Chandler), who has been lost at sea, is the heroine’s journey. They certainly share a trippy take on physics and a psychedelic palette, but the film conforms far more closely to the traditional fairy tale, or maybe a Dickens novel (with a dram of “Treasure Island”): The motherless young Nemo (Marlow Barkley) becomes an orphan only moments into the story, and is sent to live with an unsympathetic relative (Chris O’Dowd). ![]() ![]() ![]() The fantasy-adventure “Slumberland,” which does a gender swap with Nemo and uses state-of-the-art technology to emulate a 117-year-old comic strip, is not the proto-surrealist’s dream that the original was. ‘God’s Time’ Review: Out for Revenge on New York’s Streets May 2, 2023.‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ Review: Battles Royal May 2, 2023.‘Hannah Gadsby: Something Special’ Review: Standup Gone Soft May 4, 2023 Slumberland Has Nemo Fighting Off a Nightmare Monster Nemo and Flip use a map to find mysterious sea pearls that they think will grant wishes.‘Silo’ Review: A Sci-Fi World Within Brutalist Walls May 4, 2023. ![]()
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