Enjoy the growth of your settlement, trade and use diplomacy to ally or challenge your neighbors, and most importantly, find yourself a prince or princess and live happily ever after! System Requirements It's a cute movie, very cozy and feel-good, a nice Christmas family watch.Once upon a Village… Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is the ideal laid back City builder. I'm probably going to forget this movie in a while, but I will gladly revisit it. It's a testament to Spielberg's insane versatility and his ability to just serve the medium of Hollywood films.
It's slow in parts but not grating, some moments are chuckle-worthy, some are moving. Also the Lynch cameo is admittedly a moving tribute both to him and to his character of John Ford. The movie is simply a very conventionally well told story.
The only nitpick I have to offer is that the main character wears these extremely distracting brown contact lenses (I suppose to make his eyes look "genetically accurate) and I don't understand how necessary that was. The best moments in the story are the interaction with his family, his complex relationship with his mother (really beautifully performed). His alter ego in the film is a very normal lead character, a very Hollywood-type of character. He doesn't have a strong sense of story, he lives and breaths in the Hollywood mainstream, and the movie portrays this very well, it shows how he is inspired by action movies, or epic movies, any entertaining story.
He's one of those producers that turns every pop song into a hit. Spielberg is a weird director, one that basically is simply very good at doing what he does, he talks the language of movies, Hollywood movies. I guess a couple of bullies.? It's a story that simply proves Spielberg's unmatched proficiency in the language of cinema: the pacing, the directing, is very refined and well-crafted, there's a lot of sentimentality that is efficiently conveyed and the visuals are always engaging in one way or another. You can feel the "true story" in the ways in which this coming-of-age story avoids melodramatic teenage cliches and tropes.
This movie is Spielberg's attempt, and I can confirm that it's pretty well achieved. There is a tendency these last years for directors to create movies about their love of movies.
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