What Can I say? I was really disappointed with Henry Selick's Wendell & Wild Netflix movie. There isn't much in this film that was enjoyable. It was hard to get into it from the beginning. It just couldn't grab my interest.
There was a lot of moment's in the film where it felt the voice actors just phoned it in. Their performance was flat and didn't match the tone of the scene.
The character design was uninteresting. Characters who are not designed well, makes it difficult to care about them.
I didn't appreciate the s3xist stereotype of men always being the idiot buffoon (looking at you Father Bests). Our culture is always pushing the 'Strong Female' architype, but will turn around and make the male characters weak, dumb, clumsy, and the clown all the time. To say this doesn't have an blanketing affect on how men are perceived in general is dangerously misguided.
Then there's the subtle, not so subtle Political messaging. Prompting a radical racist group, while also inserting an Ant-white agenda. Nevermind creating a caricature of our former President as the villain. There is so much Left-Wng messaging in this movie that it isn't a film anymore, but propaganda. It wont age well.
However, all that aside, the plot was boring. It wasn't an interesting story. The characters were not adequately developed to care about any of them or what they were going through. Coupled with the flat performances of the voice actors contributed to not being able to take the scene/film seriously.
If I was to say anything positive about the film, is that the animation is good. They do a great job making you forget you are watching a Stopmotion Film.
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