Jakten på nyresteinen

a charming film. bizarre, off course, imaginative - certainly. but beautiful. and this is the basic virtue for this film for children, introduction to the human body, using a nice pretext, pure adventure in name of noble purpose. it is not simple for say why it remains seductive. maybe, for its high eccentricity or for the touching portrait of an expression of love from a nephew to his grandfather. for the costumes and dialogues. or, maybe, for the idea of a journey who has, in this case, original nuances. a dark film who seems be an experiment. and, maybe, this is all.

It's very unusual, especially for a not-Hollywood-production to have these kinds of sets. A large amount of money must have been spent on creating the fascinating sets inside the body.

Some parts reminded me of a movie seen at biology lectures in school but this is a whole lot of more fun to it. If you get the chance of seeing it - do so!

This crowd-pleasing family movie isn't just intelligent and humorous, it also gives children a considered and informative delve into the workings of the human body. Writer/director Vibeke Idsøe reportedly got the idea for the film already back in the 1980s, and the rather long process of getting it adapted to the big screen seems to have been worth the wait. Not least because the visual effects are impressive, and the film is remarkably audience-friendly for a Norwegian production. For parents watching with their children, Jakten på nyresteinen may not be terribly intriguing, but Idsøe has been generous and clever enough to include a number of fun wordplays that are most likely meant for mum and dad while the younger ones immerse themselves in Simen's journey through veins, the appendix and the trachea.

This is one of those kid's movies that is either a) charming, imaginative and original, or b) disturbing enough to scar you for life. Either way it's well worth a look. There's some Norwegian cultural touchstones that make me believe it's taken from source material well known in it's homeland, but works at face value level as well. The storyline involves Simon, a kid with 2 expressions and a magic teddy bear, whose Grandfather seems to be getting very sick. "Of loneliness" diagnoses the kid at every opportunity. At the urging of the frankly creepy teddy, Simon ingests a magic potion and shrinks himself down to go and help Grandpa. Once inside, he hooks up with Mapster the young white blood cell & cute piece of lung matter, Alvaoli. Together they skip through grandpa's gnarly innards meeting such characters as the Secretions Agent and Bile Duct, the bad tempered head of the gall bladder department, while they try to stop the evil Calcium Crystals who are building a stone in Grandpa's bladder. The sets and costumes in this movie are impressively designed, even if worryingly skewed towards the rubber fetishistic crowd and the effects are pretty good too. (Favourite moment was the Secretion Agent's 'wanted poster') And for those with the bent for the absurd this movie's worth a look for nothing else than the costumes and interesting look at how our bodies are put together (my appendix is WHERE?) Best watched if: under 12 or drunk.

an interesting movie. that is the basic word for define this strange/charming movie.a nephew , his grandparent, a bear and a lot of adventures. inspired sets, good script, courageous work. demonstration of high, rich imagination.the only problem is the target-public. it could be creepy for kids, unrealistic for adults, seductive for fans of fantasy. behind the beautiful images, for the remember of old basic values- the love and the friendship as great examples- it is a real useful film. not only as lesson about body and adventures and for its final but for the virtue of challenge. a special film. that could be the best word for define it.