I must apologize to everyone outside The Netherlands for this movie. The book the movie is based on is a famous childrens' book in The Netherlands and is actually quite good.
Let me explain something about movies in the Netherlands: we are a very small country, thus a small audience and therefore small budgets. Not only this, but the Dutch seem to have a very mediocre taste in movies, almost every movie made here is considered to be 'good' by a large audience, and the level of acting and the way things are filmed are judged according to a standard this 'big audience' embraces.
I watched about 15 minutes of this movie then turned it off. It's embarrassing how bad the acting is, the casting is horrible, the costumes are also pretty bad. They killed a good story with poor acting and they changed the story here and there, killing the whole fairylike 'ambiance' the book has.
Let me explain something about movies in the Netherlands: we are a very small country, thus a small audience and therefore small budgets. Not only this, but the Dutch seem to have a very mediocre taste in movies, almost every movie made here is considered to be 'good' by a large audience, and the level of acting and the way things are filmed are judged according to a standard this 'big audience' embraces.
I watched about 15 minutes of this movie then turned it off. It's embarrassing how bad the acting is, the casting is horrible, the costumes are also pretty bad. They killed a good story with poor acting and they changed the story here and there, killing the whole fairylike 'ambiance' the book has.