Posts tagged Animation
'Wish' Review: A Flawed Yet Fantastic Fever Dream For Disney Fans

Even by Disney’s own standards, ‘Wish’ is often too generic and predictable. For a film billed as a celebration of Disney’s centennial and a love letter to its lore, it only feels a fraction as special as it should.

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'Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken' Review: Dreamworks Plays it Safe (and Sweet)

It isn’t always a bad thing to play it safe and deliver perfectly harmless family fun, especially for a studio as weathered as Dreamworks. ‘Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’ almost feels like a pit-stop for the studio, in that it serves as a sufficiently sweet little adventure that does more than enough to warrant buying a ticket.

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‘Hotel Transylvania: Transformania’ Review: Fun Visual Gags Elevate a Paint-by-Numbers Story

While the visual humor is spot-on, ‘Hotel Transylvania: Transformia’ suffers from a massive lack of creativity in its screenplay. Director Derek Drymon’s comedic touch isn’t lost when “Hotel Transylvania: Transformania” relies heavily on visual humor to make the audience laugh, but it’s a shame that the movie’s story has been done one too many times.

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‘Soul’ Review: A Deeply Moving, Gorgeously Animated Masterpiece

A triumphant success on all fronts, from its animation, to its story, to its jazz-infused otherworldly score, to Jamie Foxx’s expressive and moving lead performance, Pixar’s Soul stands with - perhaps even above - the animation juggernaut’s greatest films.

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