Upon finding a magical book that helps her to hypnotize, Molly Moon, a young orphan girl, uses the book and makes herself famous and wealthy, but everything changes when she faces a man that plans for stealing the book.
There is nothing objectionable in screenwriter Chris Hurford's adaptation of Byng's children's book and there is a good deal of merit to its spirited protagonist.
Molly Moon follows all of the beats of the genre in an unapologetic manner, but what transpires is a film that feels more like an elongated episode of a programme on CBBC, which really, is where this project is more likely to have found its home.
Cute and terribly sweet, this family film skews quite young. It is aimed at the tweens who are familiar with the idea of famous children, but don't really know much about how other children live their lives.
