NeilSmax

NeilSmax

I'm a french cartoonist with bad opinions

Favorite films

  • Lilo & Stitch
  • Eraserhead
  • Perfect Blue
  • The Truman Show

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  • U

    ★★★★

  • The Hand

    ★★★★

  • Unicorn Wars

    ★★★½

  • Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

    ★★★½

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  • U

    U

    ★★★★

    Probably the best translation of an artist's style into animation I've ever seen.
    Every frame of this movie feels like it was drawn by Grégoire Solotareff all by himself and it's bloody gorgeous. (I love me some good messy brush strokes.)
    Special mention to that trippy music sequence, give me an entire movie that looks like this please.
    Really clever allegory about growing up, charming characters with good chemistries ( a lot of the dialogue feels like improv), but I…

  • The Hand

    The Hand

    ★★★★

    Art is a bitch.

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  • Migration

    Migration

    ★★★½

    Before seeing it, I was both very excited and skeptical about Migration for one reason.
    Its director.
    Benjamin Renner is, without a doubt, one of the most unique, talented and important voices in French animation.
    With only two films, Ernest & Celestine and The Big Bad Fox, he proved himself to be a master of simplicity, of character-driven comedy and of snappy and expressive animation.
    So it was at first a pleasant surprise to see that his next project was going…

  • Boo Boo Runs Wild

    Boo Boo Runs Wild

    ★½

    This has all the bad things from a post-Ren & Stimpy John K. cartoon,but it also has all the good things from a post-Ren & Stimpy John K. cartoon.

    Some funny drawings,great voice acting (this is probably the only thing John can do right alone),great background paintings

    But good lord,not only it isn't funny at all,but the timing is abysmal. Scenes that should only be a few seconds long goes on for way too long. This is also the start of John…

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