Review of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989) by Gavin C — 15 Jun 2011

Sometimes, it's hard to forget other non-Disney features, do we? But, that doesn't mean we have to live on without them. On top of that, some of them may not be memorable, but they will live on in our memories. That's why we get Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, based on the comic strips from the 1900s, made by TMS (who did the animated productions like Tiny Toon Adventures and many more), screenplay was made by Chris Columbus (writer of The Goonies and director of Adventures in Babysitting, Home Alone 1-2, Mrs. Doubtfire, and the first two Harry Potter movies in the early 2000s) and Richard Outten, and the soundtrack was made by the Sherman Brothers (who did the songs for such great family classics like Mary Poppins, Winnie The Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Slipper and the Rose, and the theme song It's A Small World (After All) for the Disneyland theme park.

Production in Japan began in 1982, but was then released in 1989 and 1992 in America before it was received by the critics as it won an Annie Award in 1993.

The reason why I'm reviewing this is because I've watched the Nostalgia Critic review of that movie and I was like, "What the heck" and before I'm going to make my opinion, I'm gonna write the plot from the movie that we've already know what it was about.

It revolves around Nemo, a young boy from New York, dreams as he goes off to a fantasy world called Slumberland. There, he meets King Morpheus, who gives him caution never to open the door. Nemo then discovers that the door contains the Nightmare King (who rules all of Nightmare land) before breaking his promise by opening it with a key. As the nightmare begins to flood all of Slumberland, it's up to Nemo and his new friends to destroy the Nightmare King once and for all.

That's it for the plot, now for my opinion. Even though the Nostalgia Critic himself praised the animation and visuals, he criticizes the main character's personality and the stale and dark moments. In my opinion, I'm gonna disagree with him by saying that this movie is an animated musical masterpiece since the era of Disney.

The animation is a lot of fun with colorful backgrounds and I like the dark visuals even though it's a little bit intense and scary for kids ages 8-12. Though, the only problem that I had with this movie was the main character Nemo and his personality. He may be underdeveloped, but it's very hard to dislike him being voiced by Gabriel Damon from Don Bluth's animated masterpiece "The Land Before Time" and that's not worth saying much.

The other characters were developed and were very likable. When it comes to the musical numbers, I'd say, very well done. The songs from the beginning to the end by Melissa Manchester were a lot of pleasure and the musical numbers during the movie were very good every single one of them is memorable.

The storyline was a very interesting concept and was well paced. The acting was very entertaining even the dialogue was pretty ordinary, but great.

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland lacks in any depth, but IMO, it is a great animated movie that has a amazing reality of dreaming for a lot of good things.

8/10.