09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Dream Animals: The Movie review – Japanese animation inspired by biscuits is cracking fun
3/5 stars
For more than a century, movies have been adapted from novels, plays, television shows and real-life historical events.
toys ,
But recently, cinematic spectacles have derived from
board games
emojis – and now biscuits.
Dream Animals: The Movie is a colourful, family-friendly animation inspired by the Japanese snack of the same name.
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The bite-sized animal-shaped cookies emblazoned with words such as 'lion', 'monkey', and 'rabbit' – in English – have been a beloved confection around the world since they were first launched by Japanese food giant Ginbis in 1978.
Until now, they have existed solely as a snack, but writer Tetsuhiro Ikeda and director Hitoshi Takekiyo have conjured up an entire action-packed universe for these animal crackers to inhabit.
