The Willoughbys review – imaginative animated Netflix adventure - MW

Ayear after the great creator of Sony Into the Spider-Verse became the first non-Pixar / Disney / Dreamworks film to win an Academy Award for best animated film since 2011, the race was started again by passers-by Frozen 2 a been robbed and instead, Laika returned to the spotlight with Missing Link (after winning the Golden Globe) and Netflix snuck with two originals - Klaus and I Lost My Body - scoring the first time. First streamer. While Toy Story 4 could possibly win, the team continues to reflect an expanding field and catches more options on the left, a much needed flow of energy in the two horse race.

Their latest animation, the presenter of Willoughbys, is not exactly Oscarbait but it also proves that Netflix is investing heavily in its animation content with a film made. as strong as any studio sponsored theatrical release. He has a lot of mixed stuff but has enough energy and imagination to make it a not-for-nothing option for parents forced to rewind it for next week. Like governing the favorite demons of the Trolls family: World Tour, it's a story that is told at high speed, an adventure that recalls everything, from the Addams family at home alone to a chain of events. Fortunately for the Royal Tenenbaums, go through many familiar points of contact while struggling to fully develop your own identity.



Throughout history, the name Willoughby has been associated with the heroic, intelligent and intelligent breakthrough, a tradition that ended with the last descendant: a selfish, stupid man and an equally poor woman. Despite the children's hatred, they eventually gave birth to four of them who grew up constantly reminding them of how unwanted and unloved they were. Through an unusual situation involving an abandoned baby and a candy factory, the children develop a plan: they will become orphans to find a better life.

He has a dark idea for a film aimed at young audiences, shown in one of the funniest clips in the film, setting up various situations of death for their horrible parents. . Told by a cat voiced by Ricky Gervais, starring a Lemony Snicket-esque, this is your ordinary children's movie, the music for The Willoughbys when we announced early that this game had an end. happy ending. It is not entirely correct, but in a specific aspect, I won the spoils, the film has the courage to condemn early, rejecting us the upward reversal that we expected.

I sometimes wonder what could have happened if the film had been aimed at younger adolescents than at children and leaning towards darkness, because Willoughbys rather compensated for its Gothicism with bright and funny colors, accelerating at a rate so crazy. difficult to follow. The frenzied plot is sometimes a little too crazy, adding to the point that it begins to remove the intriguing framework. The film loaded with the film also begins to soil its emotional core, which prevents what the film frames as the heart of an end.

But the director, Kris Pearn, whose final film is a sequel has a superficial similarity with Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs, keeping everything creative visually until the end, packaging his short film with Imagined Images is almost enough to distinguish them from many colleagues. While there is a strange age difference between the voices behind the siblings (Will Forte, 49, plays the younger brother with Alessia Cara, 23), the actors, including Martin Short, Maya Rudolph, Terry Crews and Jane Krakowski, making sparks, the choice of actors in the comic book created the humor so necessary for a screenplay that desperately needs it.

Although Willoughbys is not proud of the brilliant structure or beating heart of the Pixar animation, it is attractive enough to make it an easily digestible watch and for any parent involved. However, practicing orphans involves a lot of work and your children may be afraid

MW