Nobody told me this is where Fromsoft got all their shit from.
✅ dark fantasy
✅ ruined dirty world
✅ grotesque creatures
✅ extremely melancholy
✅ puzzle based boss encounters
✅ your only support are weird little guys with very specific abilities
Saw this on my first night in Boston for a three week business trip. I've been chewing on it ever since. It may take me a little longer to pin this movie down, but poo-poo to anyone who wants to look down on this film's effort or aspirations. God forbid people try.
Moana 2 is not particularly good. That's not what this review is about.
This was my son's first trip to the movies. He's almost 3-years old, and obsessed with Moana. We watch chunks of the movie at least four times a week. We listen to the music almost every day, often multiple times per day. I am often cynical about the Walt Disney Corporation, but there IS something alchemical about their best work. And Moana has that blend of art…
shit, my dad is 77 and it is so real seeing an old guy struggle to walk and have to make his own little work-arounds for everything.
also, the dudes in this movie all talk like my father-in-law and his brothers who grew up in a farm in Western Minnesota. "A good grabber is hard to come by..."