Fri, March 18, 2022
Warm, funny, visually dazzling, and stylistically innovative. It’s interesting how this and Luca, and The Mitchells vs. the Machines and The Bad Guys all started pushing the typical look of computer-animated films in subtle new directions at the same time—maybe the entire industry took notice when Spider-Verse showed what was possible, and three years is about the amount of time it takes to churn these out. The snappy energy and fourth-wall moments work well for this story, and the actors and animators deliver spectacular work.