The comedy team "The Chaser" once said that we should preface all reviews of Australian films with "For an Australian Movie". Sadly, even with that preface, this movie still isn't good. Primarily, I really struggled with the acting which sounded like a crew from a local theatre group doing their first play. Special mention to the first scene in the curio shop, where the owner manages around 5 different accents in one line of dialogue! Surprisingly, the two child characters were actually some of the better actors. To be fair to the actors however, the script did them no favours with some painfully cheesy dialogue and scenes that were a collection of fantasy "the chosen one" tropes.
However it wasnt all awful, the CGI was solid and it had some sparks of fun especially in the second act of the movie early in the underground. It feels like a movie with significant potential that is never quite reached.
If you are at a loose end for an OK family movie and don't have many alternatives, then give the Secret Kingdom a try.. My kids (7 and 11) definitely enjoyed it more than the adults did.
The Secret Kingdom
2023
Adventure / Family / Fantasy
The Secret Kingdom
2023
Adventure / Family / Fantasy
Plot summary
Verity and Peter’s trip to the old family mansion takes a turn when the floor of their room suddenly gives way and they fall into an underground chamber where they are met by a civilization of creatures. The leader tells them that Peter's arrival was foretold as he’s the one who can use Great Clock of the Citadel to restart time and destroy the Shroud, a malevolent creature who feeds on fear itself...
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This Kingdom probably should have stayed a secret..
A pleasant kids movie
I really enjoyed this movie. It's a movie for children so I don't get the low scores.
It felt like an Astrid Lindgren story mixed with the Neverending story.
It's a movie about fear and how to overcome it before it grows to strong so it turns into something worse. Something I have the unpleasant knowledge about. It's about death and that we have to let go sometime, something I am still working on.
It's about two siblings that goes on a journey together to overcome this things but not all as it seems.
If you like adventure movies for kids this is not a bad movie is. A bit slow maybe but I can live with it.
Not a bad movie
I don't know why these low ratings and reviews, it's a good movie for kids and adults
Is the reason for these low ratings that the movie did not contain the agenda of modernity and that it was kids movie that was innocent of everything they wanted to push us for?
The movie is not without flaws, but it was never a bad movie
I loved it and recommend watching it
Much better than many of the children's films produced by big production companies, which are no longer innocent films
Very good film for the family to enjoy,
Very good film for the family to enjoy,
Very good film for the family to enjoy,