The guys tried to turn Nils Holgerson into Forrest Gump. And it works, up to a point. The thing is Forrest Gump was not about a guy named Gump, but about the changes of a nation. And the Ikea guys could not follow that. So you get just that: an unreal trip that goes slower than time outside Stockholm.
To make things worse, the life adventure and the money adventure only share a character. They are like two different novels blended together because the scriptwriter did not have enough material for a 90 minute feature.
To make things worse, the life adventure and the money adventure only share a character. They are like two different novels blended together because the scriptwriter did not have enough material for a 90 minute feature.