The Portable Door
2023
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Mystery

The Portable Door
2023
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Mystery
Plot summary
Paul and Sophie, interns at a mysterious London firm, become steadily aware their employers Humphrey and Dennis are anything but conventional – they are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices.
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Enjoyable but needs a new sound mix
It's not bad, but it's not great
I love a good sci fi and fantasy film, so I decided to give this a try. I'm glad I did, because it wasn't bad, but it wasn't anything like I expected.
The British tend to like their buffoonery, and there was simply too much of it in the beginning. Sam Neill could never be described as cute but that's what they were trying to make him be.
The story was also difficult to follow. The Humphries had me completely baffled until very close to the end.
Considering Jim Henson was involved with this I thought the goblins were very poorly done. Also some of the sets were great but some of the characters not very well defined at all.
Overall I didn't hate it and I watched it from start to finish in one go. But it was very slow to start and just wasn't polished enough to understand, so by the end I only just realised what I had watched.