Wiplala (2014)
Genre: Family / Adventure
Duration: 93 minuten
Alternative titles: The Amazing Wiplala / Help! I've Shrunk the Family
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Tim Oliehoek
Stars: Géza Weisz, Sasha Mylanus and Peter Paul Muller
IMDb score:
6,0 (970)
Releasedate: 19 November 2014
Wiplala plot
Seven-year-old Johannes Blom makes the discovery of his life when he finds a little man named Wiplala who can do magic behind the jar of peanut butter in the kitchen cupboard. When Wiplala accidentally makes the Blom family as small as himself, it's the start of a very big adventure. Will they ever go back to normal?
Actors and actresses
Wiplala
Johannes
Nella Della
Mr. Blom
Emilia
Arthur Hollidee
Doctor Vink
Nurse Babs
Pizza Delivery Boy
Policeman square
Reviews & comments
Captain Pervert
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- 4671 messages
- 2111 votes
"Get lost, you shit pigeons."
For a Dutch film, this is an exceptionally entertaining and beautifully made family film. If you pierce through the overcoat of suspense, decent computer effects, and excellent green screen action, you'll find a somewhat unpleasant jumble of mediocre characters and half-baked storylines, but you can also choose not to.
On the surface, it's striking that the discovery of Wiplala isn't kept very secretive. Characters quickly share the information with each other, and after a brief hesitation, they accept the presence of a gnome without batting an eyelid.
Even adults don't think to ask Wiplala about his background. That would be the first thing you'd want to know. See also Father Abraham asking the Smurfs, "Where are you from?" at the very beginning of the song.
That doesn't really make it believable, but it keeps the pace going and we quickly get to the heart of the story: a Honey I shrunk the kids ripoff, which you can't really call it that because in 30 years hardly any films have ever been made that borrow from the aforementioned, legendary family film.
Next to a Hollywood film, Wiplala is pale, but for what it is – a thrilling and entertaining film for the whole family – it succeeds well in what it attempts to do.
Teacher Inge read Wiplala to my class (grade 4). I loved it at the time. It was wonderful to see a film adaptation of it 30 years later with my own two children.
3.5 stars.
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mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
Tiny Wiplala [Geza Weisz] has fled Wiplalaland and ends up in the Blom family's house, where he befriends Johannes [Sash Mylanus] and his sister, Nella Della [Kee Ketelaar]. Due to his defective "tinkling," Wiplala turns local poet Arthur Hollidee [Paul Kooij] into a statue and gets the Blom family into serious trouble during a restaurant visit. To avoid arrest, he "tinkles" the family so they are as small as himself. This manages to evade the police, but Wiplala doesn't dare "tinkle" them back. His only hope is to return to Wiplalaland so another Wiplala can "tinkle" the Blom family back. The journey home from the restaurant becomes a race against time when the Amsterdam municipality threatens to remove and destroy the supposed statue of Arthur! Schmidt's beloved 1957 tale nearly drowns in a maelstrom of superfluous action, overblown (and inconsistent) special effects, and Hollywood clichés. It's largely thanks to Weisz, Mylanus, Ketelaar, and Muller that glimpses of the source material's magic can still be found here and there.
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Roger Thornhill
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- 6074 messages
- 2478 votes
A fun children's film, made with pace and flair, making good use of what CG can do these days (and in the madman's ride in a toy car, its inventiveness can occasionally be compared to, say, the Ant-Man franchise). As an adult, I would have liked to see a more charismatic and intriguing actor for such a unique title character, and as mentioned before, it's bizarre that no character seriously wonders about Wiplala's origins, but the target audience will undoubtedly have enjoyed it, and that's what ultimately matters. (The almost unrecognizable Peter Paul Muller could almost be a brother of Jiskefet's Mister Edgar in this one, by the way.)
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