Pantomime fail

Rating: 3/10 (26 December 2013)

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. What should have been a truly enthralling, captivating and magical tale is here turned into product placement, CGI and reasons for the film crew to travel to odd and interesting places. Ben Stiller may have been the correct choice as Walter but for heavens sake, everything else is wrong. Simple things e.g. making the dream sequences black & white would have made the story more 'genuine' - instead we and he can't decide what is true and what is imagined...to the extent that when he does have his real life adventures we don't care. In any case, by then we're looking at the scenery - nice, been to some of those places, nice to see them on screen. Pity the focus is on some stupid goings on that are just beyond far fetched (you know, a moon distance far fetched.)As a UK TV interviewer noted, "Ben, you have very long legs for the size of your body" well, what else could the poor guy talk about. This film is a dud.