Impossible to hate, feels very much like a Pixar movie. A simple story about solitude and friendship that hits all the right emotions. Its soulful melancholy and cute sense of humour will resonate with just about anyone, I think. Despite working with the silent film format, it’s still very good at building character and surprising the audience. It’s slightly overlong and repetitive in places, but as a story I like it. I also love the animation style and outstanding score, aesthetically it’s brewing with personality. There are a lot of different genres worked into the score (jazz, psychedelia, rock, disco), which is quite smart for a film where the music needs to do a lot of the heavy lifting. You can also tell they paid a lot of attention to the foley. Visually it’s a nice throwback to a more simplistic animation style. I do wish the character design was more distinct, however, because that’s a small area where the simplicity works against it. For example, Pixar’s really good at creating characters that are instantly recognizable from their design and that’s not so much the case here. Still, my gripes with this are fairly minor, it’s fun.
Shout by JordyVIP 8BlockedParent2024-05-18T22:59:37Z
Impossible to hate, feels very much like a Pixar movie. A simple story about solitude and friendship that hits all the right emotions. Its soulful melancholy and cute sense of humour will resonate with just about anyone, I think. Despite working with the silent film format, it’s still very good at building character and surprising the audience. It’s slightly overlong and repetitive in places, but as a story I like it. I also love the animation style and outstanding score, aesthetically it’s brewing with personality. There are a lot of different genres worked into the score (jazz, psychedelia, rock, disco), which is quite smart for a film where the music needs to do a lot of the heavy lifting. You can also tell they paid a lot of attention to the foley. Visually it’s a nice throwback to a more simplistic animation style. I do wish the character design was more distinct, however, because that’s a small area where the simplicity works against it. For example, Pixar’s really good at creating characters that are instantly recognizable from their design and that’s not so much the case here. Still, my gripes with this are fairly minor, it’s fun.
7/10