Review of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) by Healingtoolbox1 — 21 Nov 2016
Most original, inventive and deep movie I have seen in 2016. Hardly a derivative bone in its body. A boy learns how to resource and make use of his inner parents, a benefit which will stay with him for the rest of his life.
A spiritual movie in the same sense as the 1978 Star Wars. The Force is used but not talked about much. Very unusual for adventure stories, the chief villain is not killed at the end. One of the themes is memory.
At the end the villain is reformed by giving him new memories by an entire village working together. I'm a VFX and stop=motion nerd and even I cannot fathom this convergence of stop-motion and CGI animation.
The facial animation rivals anything we have seen in 2016 from the major effects vendors. Several astonishing character flourishes and responses are attempted--and pulled off. Really remarkable for any animation let alone stop-motion.
By far the strongest Laika movie yet, a wonderful convergence of script, voice case, animators and spirit.
This review of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) was written by Healingtoolbox1 on 21 November 2016.
Kubo and the Two Strings has generally received very positive reviews.
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