Last week, I watched 6 movies:
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- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl doesn’t reinvent the wheel of Aardman cozy sight gags, but it’s a lot of real silly fun.
- The Wild Robot is lovely and clever and heartfelt.
- Elemental has some clever moments, and it’s heartfelt when it leans into its story of the children of immigrants, but the worldbuilding feels like it’s trying too hard and never quite comes together.
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- Flow isn’t photorealistic—there’s never any confusion that these images were animated in a computer, and there’s a dreamy, surreal quality to almost everything—but the animals nonetheless feel incredibly real, more true to their individual natures than anthropomorphized, and it’s incredibly compelling and moving film because of that.
- I’m not sure that Suzume is as visually thrilling as some of Makoto Shinkai’s other films, but there’s a beautifully strange story here nonetheless.
- There’s a lot of humor in Transformers One, and the voice cast does a mostly admirable job, even if the celebrity voices do get a little distracting sometimes. But the story beats, and how the movie races through them, are incredibly predictable, and the movie doesn’t do enough that’s interesting or surprising with this potentially interesting prequel.
I also rewatched The Iron Giant, which is as lovely (if not more so) than I remember it. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but: you don’t have to be a gun.