Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Just so...so bad

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

If i could give it a zero, i would, i have never seen it but i hate Evan!The animation is terrible, and kids should not make movies unless they do at least 6 years of animation school.This is a rotten tomato.0/10

Sometimes you get a hold of the movie, which makes instantly clear to you that it would be impossible to produce it in US (most of the movie production), or other studios around the world. That is mostly because Scandinavians have a very "intimate" way of depicting mosty anything in their movies. Their movies are often focused on interrelations that are often deemed unacceptable or inappropriate in other countries.Good example would be "Let the Right One In" (Låt den rätte komma in), which would be essentially impossible to record in US.Beyon Beyond has substance, the characters are not black and white - they are complex; both bad and good at the same time. All of the movie is in positive, childish tone, which makes it a pleasant experience to watch and learn from it, especially for children.While this movie is not something "stellar", like Nauciaa, or Laputa, or Wall-e..., it has qualities beyond the ratings. The way this movie is made, is characteristically immersive, specific to Scandinavian culture, and I absolutely recommend it.Watch it with your kid, and let it learn from it. We made a projection for 4yr old boy who loves spaceships and rockets, and he really liked this move. He asked to watch it again at some point later on.

Save yourself the time and bother and watch something else: I wouldn't recommend this for either kids or grownups. After my child and I finished watching it we were not only unimpressed, we were actually a bit angry at the meandering story-line and the lack of explanation of certain actions. Now I should add that we watched the English dubbed version and so I was prepared to consider the possibility that the script was badly translated or that the dialogue was delivered in a way that it wasn't in the original. However, even if I was watching it on mute I would see the story repeating potentially emotionally powerful scenes and rendering them irritating. I cant reveal which bits were repetitive or irritating without spoiling the film but I was amazed that no one in the creative process thought to edit the story a bit tighter. And yes, I do get that since this is a story about the afterlife we were going to be asked to accept certain rules about that world, but the story bores us by repeating these rules over and over and insisting that we couldn't be told the reason behind the rules. You end up with a world where blind faith is expected and their parallel to a God is pretty OK with vengeance and violence. (Good to know, hunh?) Given that the subject matter is children's experience of bereavement, they had a greater duty towards making the story less convoluted and confusing.

Would-be storytellers sometimes make the mistake of thinking that, because the story they are telling is a fairytale and involves magic, that the niceties surrounding "willing suspension of disbelief" may be safely ignored. Important plot elements can then simply be pulled from various bodily orifices, flung at the audience in cheerful disregard and with a brightly smiling face accompanied with jazz hands while shouting "Wow! See?! It's magic!".And so it is with the storyline of "Beyond Beyond". Which is more than simply unfortunate because, in most other respects, "Beyond Beyond" is actually quite good. Well-designed caricatures of characters, good production values, and vivid imagery all combine to make a movie that would have been quite memorable had a decent plot line been a part of the mix. The "moral of the story" punchline at the end read as ridiculous to me because the plot elements it was supposed to flow from were… ridiculous.The context of the story is the life and afterlife of anthropomorphic rabbits. There are only a couple of characters in the story which are not either rabbits or very closely rabbit- related creatures.The characters are engaging, especially the young rabbit-son Johan with his unflagging determination to reunite his family. Johan's mother, for unexplained reasons, has become ill and has been carried off by The Feather King, which is the equivalent of dying in this universe. The Kingdom of the Feather King is, for the purposes of the story, where you go when you die. Johan is having none of this and is going to the Kingdom of the Feather King to retrieve his mother and reunite his family, and he isn't taking no for an answer.Johan's grim determination to get his mother back is the thing that carries the entire film. He tries to be polite and gives adults and those in authority the opportunity, repeatedly, to give a reasonable explanation as to why things should be the way they are, politely listens to what are essentially non-answers, does a quick "Nope, not buying it" turnabout and forges ahead while the adults look on, appalled.There's another character in the story, Bill, who is also one of the few non-rabbit characters. He's as dissatisfied with the status quo as Johan, and goes about doing quite a bit more damage to that status quo. Where Johan is singly focused on retrieving his mother and has no desire to upset any apple carts beyond that one objective, Bill seems determined to rearrange everything in the rabbit- afterlife to suit himself. Bill's character is self-centered, random and rebellious and so, quite predictably, The Kingdom of the Feather King begins to come apart at the seams as the effects of Bill's changes begin to set in.The net result is that everything has to be set back to rights, Bill's changes have to be undone, and Johan has to accept the fact that he can't be with his mother until such time as his own ticket gets punched. Literally. But hey, it's not so bad because Johan can always send his mother letters as messages in bottles cast into the ocean. I kid you not. More reliable than the USPS. We're even given the sense that others are communicating with their loved ones through message bottles as well.The trouble with all of this is that none of it makes any sense.For the purposes of this review, I have barely scratched the surface of the plot line which involves a giant, tentacled creature that normally runs things in the Kingdom of the Feather King and sheds scales which determine who's to die and be collected by The Feather King, phalanxes of rules which must be obeyed without rationale or explanation (or even comprehension, for that matter…), and completely glosses over the fact that the very presence of Bill in The Kingdom of the Feather King fundamentally contravenes the rules all by itself (how was he in there without his ticket being canceled in the first place, and why did he need a ticket now to go back there and how did he get such a pivotal role in the creation and maintenance of The Kingdom without having apparently died to get there in the first place, etc.). The plot is arbitrary, complex, and full of elements that don't need to be there.None of it makes any sense, none of it hangs together, the rules appear arbitrary (especially when every question that gets asked basically only gets "just because" for an answer) and so on. One completely empathizes with Johan and his blanket rebellion against the "order of things" because no one in their right mind would accept any of this nonsense, ESPECIALLY when the rules give a sense of simply being made up for no particular reason other than to portray an absurdly complex structure to the afterlife. Supporting the desire to rebel is the fact that everybody dwelling in the afterlife seems to just stand around, unhappy and bored. As irresponsible and destructive as Bill is, one has to emphasize with his motivations even if his very existence makes no sense at all. Write down the plot elements to the next fever-induced nightmare you have and I guarantee it'll make more sense than this does.Because of all this, the moral you actually derive from the story is, "Life and death makes no sense at all, it's horrific and sad AND boring. But tough nuts to you. Follow the rules and like it."Personally, while I can enthusiastically recommend the movie to be enjoyed for its production values and imagery, as long as you go in with eyes open and knowing that the story is a complete loss, I would certainly never recommend letting any sort of a child see this picture because NOTHING in it makes for any sort of impression I would like a kid to have.