The adult might well appreciate the plug put in for novels (versus video games) as a source of children's entertainment, and might also appreciate the elementary lesson dished out at the climax about the audience's vital role in the creative process: more or less what Coleridge had in mind with the expression "poetic faith.'' But the particular fiction used to demonstrate these ideals — an overproduced and underimagined fairy tale about a land called Fantasia besieged by something called The Nothing — will best be left to the wide-eyed or merely undiscriminating tot. With Noah Hathaway; directed by Wolfgang Petersen. (1984) — Duncan Shepherd
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