Sadly Over-hyped

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Cirkeline, a little paper-cut elf, is the star in this enchanting movie for smaller children--co-starring alongside several mice with Frederik and Ingolf as her room-mates. Originally, Cirkeline an her pals were starring in small ten-minute films produced for Danish Radio's Children's television. Known to almost all Danes over 3, Cirkeline is common knowledge and represents very much the nation's attitude towards children. The movie contains hardly any adults (mice etc.) Cirkeline and her pals move freely around the city (Denmark's capital Copenhagen), meeting other children (mice) and adults (the dove, a father, a big, bad rat) and thus getting accustomed to life in a new place. Friendship keeps them together, and as friends they master almost every situation. Absolutely harmless even for timid children the movie still keeps up enough tension to be one my daughter's favorite movies.