The Games Maker
The movie follows Ivan, a 10-year-old kid with a passion for crafting board games that enters a competition by mail to become the titular games maker. Orphaned in a freak ballooning accident, he starts on a Narnia-style journey into the fantastical and competitive world of game invention, and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who has long desired to destroy the city of Zyl.
15 November 1929, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
November 13, 2015
The plot might be a bit labyrinthian for kids, but, then, the young ones always do manage to find their way, don't they.
November 17, 2015
A fine new addition to the library of imaginative children's film fantasy.
June 08, 2016
Board-game themed fantasy has bullying, violence.
November 12, 2015
You know what? The Games Maker is 111 minutes long but would take as least twice as long to explain.
November 14, 2015
Writer/director Juan Pablo Buscarini manages the occasional cute touch and pleasing art deco designs in this made-on-the-cheap children's fantasy, where the special effects are poor and the starved imagination can only feed on J.K. Rowling's dust.
