(Watched in Spanish)
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It's very difficult to review a movie this old and that was made at such a moment in the history of humankind.
To justify my rating, I'm going to do what every grown man should do... Hide behind their mom.
My mother has always spoken about this film as one of her favourites, although she hadn't come back to it since it first released in Spain in 1976 (36 years after its US release and shortly…
I am not the biggest fan of life. But I acknowledge it never ceases to impress.
I've long thought that only the innate drive to survive keeps the suffering being alive. That is why I still get struck when I see people persevering, with no hope in the horizon.
But I guess that cannot be it. That there is something beyond, unweathered by facts, by believes, by hopes... Something that we do not quite control... But that is deeply rooted…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
So, this movie is getting underrated. Let's figure out why people are plainly wrong.
Is this movie worse than the original? Yes, it is slightly worse. Is it underwhelming? No, it isn't.
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First things first, this is a sequel. Sequels in any artistic genre are famously known for fucking shit up. In our world the prime interest for sequels are money, not an artistic exploration of a world already created. Evidently being this developed by Disney Pixar, this movie…
When you lay pain above suffering above tragedy... You end up with an unrelatable tale. Especially when you try to make up for it with such a foreseeable and wishful ending.
I didn't feel particularly moved by the plot but I acknowledge my own biases. The humour was cleverly acid and, over anything else, the art was amazing.
Only for the level of detail and amount of work needed to create such a high-quality stop motion, I can't rate it any lower than this.
