The premise of The Secret Kindom (1997) is this: There’s a kingdom chafing under the grip of a totalitarian leader. This kingdom is under the sink of a house in New Orleans, and is discovered by three children while their parents are away.
Really? This got made? Seriously?
#1 by lyzard on September 3, 2009 - 1:37 am
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Well, Nathan, you can’t accuse me of not paying attention to your reviews: I read this one as far as Directed by David Schmoeller, Written by Benjamin Carr and shrieked with anticipatory horror.
#2 by lyzard on September 3, 2009 - 1:41 am
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In other news, these people must clean their kitchen properly about as often as I do.
#3 by Nathan Shumate on September 3, 2009 - 6:21 am
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Well, maybe. Like I said, there’s absolutely no discussion of how long the miniature nation has been there.
#4 by Jen S on September 8, 2009 - 9:30 am
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The premise of the movie is actually pretty good. It reminds me of an old Sylvia cartoon about setting up a miniature museum in your fridge or closet, or Joel’s sketch from Giant Gila monster, about having a malt shop in your laundry room.
#5 by Carl on September 9, 2009 - 7:34 pm
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Was this, do you suppose, a conscious tribute to The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe with a magical, oppressed kingdom behind a cabinet door? Of course Lewis did it better, but it’s the same concept.
#6 by Nathan Shumate on September 9, 2009 - 8:24 pm
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Conscious? No. Remember, this was made back-to-back with The Shrunken City, of which it is an oblique permutation, and every other Romanian-made Kushner-Locke kidvid which made use of shrunken people or alternate realities (that looked just like Bucharest) or both. They were in the habit of slopping any old half-baked fantasy concept onto a script and shoving it in from of the cameras.