Don't show it to your kids! To begin with, the first half-hour of the film I was terribly happy, because I really love this genre in this performance. After the movie, there was a mixed feeling, like when you watched "Fall in Love with Me If You Dare." Everything seems cool, and the picture, and music, and humor, and the plot is exciting, but it seems that no child psychologist took part in the work on the film.
If everything is in order, then I saw several scenes of naked violence in the film: a scene with grill chickens, Gummy bears (especially this one); several scenes that cause a sense of doom and hopelessness (such scenes are usually used in horror): the same scene with chickens, the scene of the final fight + a tsunami of food and, finally, the scene associated with sexual violence: the same one in which the apparatus hanging on a white, phallic appearance, something, spews tons of matter into a huge cloac under it, and then enters the main character. I don’t know about you, even the sight of it caused disgust, and whitish crap looks terribly like a condom.
There were also huge chunks of food falling from the sky, especially pancakes. I am not a psychologist by training, I was fond of literature as an amateur, but it means that my version can be tested. So, everything that externally has a rigid, elastic shape, is huge in size and tries to crush you, surround you, etc. In some people, it is associated with the subconscious memory of birth pain, with strangulation and pain. In this film, a similar atmosphere was created by huge overhanging clouds, a huge meatball with a machine in the center of it and ... pancakes from the sky. Perhaps, remembering the film, you will notice that the falling fruits and vegetables were not so unpleasant and did not cause light excitement (this is an attribute of adventure films), whereas the sight of a pancake descending on school caused a certain flair of inconvenience.
I also did not like that the main character evolved from a downtrodden nerd into a smug cynic (as usually happens in life), and only the last 15 minutes behaved according to the laws of the genre. This is a standard method of “becoming a hero”, but here he did not look natural.
A little embarrassed even the policeman in shorts, jumping like a gas station acrobat, I can’t say what, just express my point of view.
Of the pluses of the film, I note a magnificent picture, colors, some ideas, like a jelly lock, a TV with the legs of the cool father of the main character, very similar to Jamie Heineman from Mythbusters.
Conclusion: I liked the cartoon very much, but only for the reason that I have a weakness for them, but I would hardly show it to my children, and I would not review it myself. Honestly, it is very stressful to introduce outright violence into films. This director has already distinguished himself in all the series of Shrek, and Sony Pictures Animation studio in the Hunt Season, and Madagascar and Up did not please. The true discovery was only "Walley."
8 out of 10
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