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I don’t think this was just the best animated film of the year. I think it was the best overall film of the year. I know a lot of people loved The Wild Robot, but this has similar themes without needing talking animals and a robot. And rather than conveying the message in a way that is dumbed down for children to understand, this one had depths that left me analyzing it for days before I was ready to put…
There are a bunch of plot holes and I was annoyed by multiple performances (what’s with everyone using weird voices?), but it was still an enjoyably weird experience. The social commentary bashes you over the head in a way that feels dumber than it needed to be to get its point across. The alien creatures are great though.
I love it when they go after Disney, especially because the deserve the criticism. This was pretty solid, even with an unrelated Randy storyline which is hit or miss.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Started really strong before turning into a revisionist western that makes feminism and other modern ideology commonplace. The worst part of Yellowstone has always been the melodramatic dialogue and this doubles down on it with bad voiceover by the annoying teenage girl protagonist, trying way to hard to be poetic while also making her unrealistically independent. Her dad kills a man for bumping into him but let’s a cowboy sleep with his daughter and only punches him. She is devastated…