What holds the viewer's interest despite the apparent triviality of a plot such as the one of The Fabelmans? It is true that a movie is much more than its plot, and if this film is so pleasant to enjoy, that is because many elements that are reminiscent of the magical side of cinema have been summoned with success. I feel that this works not only with senior audiences (where I include myself) to whom a certain nostalgia of the 60's and 70's is familiar and appealing, but also with young spectators. So, what makes The Fabelmans the great film it indeed is? Apart from the hand of director Steven Spielberg and a fantastic team of actors, the movie shines with the joie de vivre of its characters and with the delicate manner in which it displays some bad moments that life has in store for them. The whole of it is shown under the eyes of childhood and adolescence with its with its burden of illusion and occasional anxieties.

The final scene (with the appearance of "the biggest director of them all") is a well achieved epilogue, full of humor. The same can be said of the last shot, an epilogue within the epilogue.

Finally I must say I also enjoyed the initial address to the audience by Spielberg himself where, appropriately, he did not miss the opportunity to defy spectators to see films in theaters.