Well Deserved Praise

Film Perfection

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Marie is sixteen and lives in a coastal town with nowt to do, no friends and a mother with a mysterious debilitating illness. The local doctor seems to take a lot of interest in Marie's condition especially when she starts to grow thick body hair and she would like to know why.Now she gets a job at the local fish factory, where she is not exactly made to feel welcome. She makes a connection with Daniel, a kindly soul who is also a good looking man whom she takes a shine too. The thing is she starts to feel that she has not been told everything about her 'illness' and soon she will find out the hard way.Now this is a slow burner but one that is fairly intense at the same time. There are some sterling performances especially from Lars Mikkelsen – brother of Mads but everyone is actually good even Gustav Dyekjær Giese who has a small role playing a nasty type here and was in the rather good 'Northwest'. It is short at 81 minutes and that includes the run off credits, but it does not do much wasting of screen time and is better for it. For lovers of 'horror' this may be lacking as it is a coming of age tale and a relationship story as much as the horror part and that makes it a more rounded film – recommended.

This movie was no good at all. I was expecting more, but what I got was a piece of garbage that fell right on its face! The plot was stupid - nothing surprising - and there was no real reason as to WHY any of the crap that was happening was happening. It was hard to like the main character, not only was she very ugly to look at, she was also a bad actress and annoying with that stupid little "smirk" always on her face. The entire cast looked like they reeked. I thought this movie would be much like "Let the Right One In," but, boy, was I wrong. This was just a waste of time, money, and energy for everyone involved, including the audience.1 big start DOWN! Don't waste your time!

If you appreciate the visual, pure beauty of it - this one is for You.The story itself is OK, nothing spectacular (better told in 'The Uninvited' (2009),) developing through beautiful scenery while depicting character's actions the most, the story doesn't relay on the conversation - it's the weak point and the strong one, depends how you look at it... I love it for what it is - a piece of art, trying to tell the story within, with more or less success. Still way better than most of the movies today ;) Just go with the flow and enjoy, don't expect any revelations, that's not what this movie is about.It is so easy to talk about all the bad and disregard the good, as it is in life. I guess, it comes down to what kind of person you are. I assure you - this movie still has a lot of great things to offer, as long as you don't expect to see what it is not there to begin with. Not many movies are that way, these days. It all comes down to a personal level of finding and appreciating the beauty presented, in front of you. Not about your expectations, the whole story you wanna see in each and every detail. Just get over it and enjoy it for what it is, cause it's pretty great ;)

Danish film 'When Animals Dream' is about a teenaged girl called Marie (Sonia Suhl), who lives in a small fishing village with her mother (Sonja Richter, who looks about the same age as Suhl) and father (Lars Mikkelsen, who doesn't). Already concerned by a mysterious rash on her body, Marie definitely realises that something is wrong when she catches her father shaving her mother's back.For Marie, it's downhill from there: hair starts growing over her body, her fingernails bleed, and even those co-workers at the fish factory who have previously been friendly to her start to whisper in corners - some of them remember what happened with her mother all those years ago. Then the doctor tries to inject her with the same medicine that keeps her mother a wheelchair-bound invalid...But it's not all bad, and that's where the film is as much a romance as a horror flick: Marie catches the eye of Daniel (genetic lottery winner Jakob Ostebro), a kindly soul who isn't phased when, in a moment of passion, he discovers a coating of hair on Marie's back: "You're beautiful", he smoulders. It is Daniel who comes to her aid when the townsfolk turn violently against her and Marie's physical changes reach their peak.In a film like this the make-up department are important and they do a good job in the early stages of Marie's transformation: soft, floaty hair on her cheeks and neck. Conversely, they go overboard in the final stages of her transformation and she ends up looking less real - and less horrific as a result. But this is still an entertaining film - a bit subtler than your average schlockfest.