Lovely family feature

Rating: 9/10 (14 February 2020)

I love it. I loved it when I saw it 13 years ago as a teenager and I love it today still. I like the actors. I like the costumes. I like the story. I like the fact that this is a fantasy film and it doesn't a) suck b) have horrible looking over the top CGI. It looks good. The locations are gorgeous. If you've ever wondered what Iceland looks like when not used to depict the moon or some dystopian future, look no further. I like that one of the leading characters is a gay person, still in the closet, and then finds out that his seemingly overly macho friends knew all along and it was never a problem for their part. It's just a very nice, feel good film that delivers a lot of important messages to kids (and a lot of grown ups) without sounding preachy.