Fone Bone
Matt Zimmer
Migration
This movie is slight, bland, low-stakes, doesn't need to be made, didn't make me laugh a single time, is weirdly feelgood in the climax, and I was gonna give it a lukewarm (but passable) review.
Until the dance party ending.
Free storytelling tip for animated kiddie fluff: If you end your film on a dance party you are essentially handing me a laminated card that says "Matt, dump on me. Hard." Well, Migration, if you insist.
This is one of those movies that exists for the sake of existence. It fills no audience need or demand. I believe fluff movies have their place. I gave VERY high marks to Pixar's Luca with similar tone and stakes. But that one had charm and personality and a unique Italian sensibility. This is just corporate mandated blandness. And maybe I wouldn't have said that in so many words without the dance party ending. But dude, they just up and HANDED me the card! It felt a bit rude if I need to get huffy about it.
By the way, how are the penguins at Jamaica? Penguins cannot fly. Reason No. 147 this movie never needed to be made and had no clear vision whatsoever.
Is this animated films now? Am I supposed to consider the mediocre Wish an above average animated film now and like it for that? Because really, that doesn't strike me as remotely right. *.
This movie is slight, bland, low-stakes, doesn't need to be made, didn't make me laugh a single time, is weirdly feelgood in the climax, and I was gonna give it a lukewarm (but passable) review.
Until the dance party ending.
Free storytelling tip for animated kiddie fluff: If you end your film on a dance party you are essentially handing me a laminated card that says "Matt, dump on me. Hard." Well, Migration, if you insist.
This is one of those movies that exists for the sake of existence. It fills no audience need or demand. I believe fluff movies have their place. I gave VERY high marks to Pixar's Luca with similar tone and stakes. But that one had charm and personality and a unique Italian sensibility. This is just corporate mandated blandness. And maybe I wouldn't have said that in so many words without the dance party ending. But dude, they just up and HANDED me the card! It felt a bit rude if I need to get huffy about it.
By the way, how are the penguins at Jamaica? Penguins cannot fly. Reason No. 147 this movie never needed to be made and had no clear vision whatsoever.
Is this animated films now? Am I supposed to consider the mediocre Wish an above average animated film now and like it for that? Because really, that doesn't strike me as remotely right. *.
