Lizzie Hopley's Dream Team is a story features only the main cast as they arrive on the Trine Archipelago, a natural wonder of the universe now overrun by Dream Crabs and corporate advertising, where they quickly find themselves trapped in perilous dreams with very tangible threats.

You'd be mistaken to assume being limited to the main four cast members comes with a lack of scope, the most is made of the cast and the dream scenarios to provide interesting and varied scenes, while the sound design does a good enough job at implying the existence of more characters.Where the story seems to suffer is in its shorter runtime, Hopley brings no shortage of interesting ideas: the disarmed Dream Crabs are a curious enough hook to begin with, the idea of too many people sharing a dream causing them to lose their sense of reality is a nice one to up the danger but it's never really returned to. The more interesting ideas come very late into the story and don't have the time to be expanded on and fleshed out. The story also lacks a proper villain behind the curtain which I feel it needed and that's an area where I feel the limited cast comes back to bite it as well. The resolution to the story feels a bit unsatisfying although it is well set up, and the get-out for the midway cliffhanger was a bit of a head scratch and a shrug, I'm still not sure how that was supposed to have worked.

The scenes with Tegan are among the story's strongest, she's the character most drawn in by the dreams and throughout she's driven by a fighting spirit and desire to protect her family. This ties in well with the greater Dream Crab plot and is an interesting angle for Tegan's character. The story never spells it out, but you have to wonder if this motivation was brought on by the loss of her aunt in Logopolis.

It's easy and even exciting to imagine a longer version of Dream Team where the late-on revelations have more time to be explored, where the story isn't having to wrap itself up in a hurry and it could be doing even more with dreams, but as it is it's not a bad two-parter by any means.