The Fabelmans: A Family in Film

After watching movies like Avatar 2 and other high-budget, over the top blockbusters with massive CGI and basically near to no actual in-depth storyline, the Fabelmans is an oase of rest and calmness in 2023.

It's a sort of autobiography of Spielbergs youth, a movie about an 'average' boy who grows up. We were amused from the beginning to the end by the catchy, sometimes recognizable family life of the Fabelmans.

There's a very amusing humor throughout the entire movie - the humor you sometimes also need to cope with life's challenges. It's an absolute art to make a movie with this kind of simplicity but that keeps you (and the entire audience) amused throughout the whole movie.

For me, it's one of the best movies since a while (after the new top gun which also amused me quite well), with a decent, pure and impressive storyline. Don't go here if you want action, shootings, explosions, helicopters and massive CGI, but if you're in for a good, amusing story that's manages to capture all happenings just perfectly on camera, definitely go see it!

Can't help wondering if it would have been better if someone with a bit of emotional distance had made this film. Certainly not Spielberg's strongest. Just simply not much of a story to tell and if there wasn't the big name attached, frankly, quite boring. Also, full of that American sentimentalism, and far too smooth. Where is the grit, the edge, the challenge. Some of the elements so predictsble, so sign-posted you can see them coming a mile away. And some of the episodes almost unbearably cliched, the dialogues stilted, the message of optimism and 'follow your dream' so stereotypical. Finally, the ending: abrupt, almost mid-sentence, so either a sequel to come, or just ran out of ...