Critical Reception
The reviews were generally very positive, with film magazine Chaplin's reviewer Göran Ribe comparing it to Jiří Trnka's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Paul Grimault's The King and the Mockingbird. Some critique was given regarding the slow pace and ambiguous tone, making it hard to distinguish whether it was a children's film or aimed for adults. Others complained about the somewhat naïve message.
The most negative review came from Variety, where Keith Keller wrote: "The Voyage to Melonia by Per Åhlin, Sweden's past master of animated films, probably has aimed over everybody's head with this go at The Tempest. Seven years in the making at a locally extraordinary cost $3.5-million, pic looks big but soon sags dangerously, and eventually ruptures."
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