
Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
Taste attributes: adventurefamilyfantasyactionfastfresh & originalwholesomelightimaginarysimplelinearglossybig & variedemotionally undemandingall consuming questrescue/escape/jeopardy
Boxlist takeExpect an otherworldly, good-natured fantasy film, big and varied rather than confined. Best if you like warmth over edge.
Taste details
Pace: very fast · Originality: fresh · Tone: very wholesome · Weight: very light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: simple · Structure: very linear · Look: very glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score
Quality rating
6.3 /10
TMDB · 76 votes
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What lines up
- Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy
- Wholesomeness: Wholesome, where this profile leans unsavoury
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Synopsis
A young orphan boy Jim Button, his best friend Luke and a magical steam engine called Emma travel across the world in search of the truth about where Jim came from. Battling pirates and dragons, outsmarting make-believe giants, they must travel through the Forest of a Thousand Wonders, beyond the End of the World to find the hidden Dragon City.
Synopsis: TMDB
Taste Attributes
Characteristics
Where this title sits on each taste spectrum
Directed by
- Dennis Gansel
Cast
- Henning Baum
- Solomon Gordon
- Annette Frier
- Uwe Ochsenknecht
- Christoph Maria Herbst
Details
- Genre
- Adventure
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- Malao Film
- Taste scores
- How we score
Similar in feel
Matched on pace, tone, themes and style, not just genre.











