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Just saw Wildwood in a early fan screening last night here is my review.
Wow wow wow, this film is a work of art. LAIKA has out done themselves and made their magnum opus that now puts them on the same level as studios like studio Ghibli. Every frame of this film is so unbelievably beautiful and breathtaking. And to find out it's all stop go animation shot on 24s that took over 5 YEARS to shoot is nothing but astonishing. Especially when we live in a world where we are actively taking steps to remove as much resistance as possible when making anything, so to go and work on this movie in the hardest medium possible is nothing but crazy excellence that works perfectly. I don't want to go into too much spoilers but there is a war in the movie that puts it all together and really is peak animation visuals and makes you understand why they took there time with this movie.
As for the story I thought it was great! There is great motivation for all the characters, no one feels like they just do things because the plot has to move on. I did read the book the movie was based on before the films release. And I have to say they really hit all the notes of the book really well while cutting out the fat and correcting things from the book I thought needed changing. From that Even though this movie is 2 hours and 20 minutes long (the longest stop-go animation film ever made by the way) there's no points in the film where I feel like anything goes on for too long or could be cut out which is is quite shocking for a movie of this length.
So my final verdict is a 10/10 and quite possibly be my favorite film ever from the visuals, the sounds, music, the story it's all hits and I can't really recall any flaws.
GO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!
Wow wow wow, this film is a work of art. LAIKA has out done themselves and made their magnum opus that now puts them on the same level as studios like studio Ghibli. Every frame of this film is so unbelievably beautiful and breathtaking. And to find out it's all stop go animation shot on 24s that took over 5 YEARS to shoot is nothing but astonishing. Especially when we live in a world where we are actively taking steps to remove as much resistance as possible when making anything, so to go and work on this movie in the hardest medium possible is nothing but crazy excellence that works perfectly. I don't want to go into too much spoilers but there is a war in the movie that puts it all together and really is peak animation visuals and makes you understand why they took there time with this movie.
As for the story I thought it was great! There is great motivation for all the characters, no one feels like they just do things because the plot has to move on. I did read the book the movie was based on before the films release. And I have to say they really hit all the notes of the book really well while cutting out the fat and correcting things from the book I thought needed changing. From that Even though this movie is 2 hours and 20 minutes long (the longest stop-go animation film ever made by the way) there's no points in the film where I feel like anything goes on for too long or could be cut out which is is quite shocking for a movie of this length.
So my final verdict is a 10/10 and quite possibly be my favorite film ever from the visuals, the sounds, music, the story it's all hits and I can't really recall any flaws.
GO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!
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