When I decided to watch In Your Dreams I was expecting a film that was made just to fill up Netflix’s catalog, a film that was going to be very simple and an easy watch. In Your Dreams turned out to be exactly every single thing that I was expecting. A mediocre film to put in the background while little kids “watch” as they’re doing something else. The film had a very basic idea, make two characters live their dreams or nightmares so they can recognize the real world.
The characters are as plain as you can get, Stevie (Jolie Hoang-Rappaport) is the only one that stands out a little for caring about her parents and a real reason to do what she does throughout the film. Elliot (Elias Janssen) has no personality besides screaming every chance he gets. Dad (Simu Liu) is a musician with Mom (Cristin Milioti) but they are nearing divorce because they are so unhappy with their relationship and that is the problem Stevie is trying to solve in the film.
The script is so simple there is nowhere you can mess it up. Dad and Mom are talking about a job that Mom has been offered that is far from their house and if she should accept it. They are already having a lot of trouble in their relationship. The kids (Stevie and Elliot) notice that. The next day they find a magic book in the back of a small store, so they go on a journey to try to make their parents stay together. To do that they need to say a line from the book and go to sleep. When they go to sleep there is a chance that they go on a dream or a nightmare. In their dreams they meet Baloney Tony (Craig Robinson) who tries to be the comic relief. Sandman (Omid Djalili) invites them to his castle and says they can make a wish that he will make it true.
In Your Dreams is a film to watch only if you have absolutely nothing else to do, because it’s nothing special or different from other films. The perfect description is a movie made to fill a streaming service catalog. You can tell it was created just for money or for children three years old or younger, because the animation feels like it was made with A.I. and everything throughout the film is overly simple. “In Your Dreams” is an okay film.
In Your Dreams releases in theaters on November 14.
