I was so excited when this was chosen for this week's Collab because this was a movie I was so excited to get to at some point even before the Collab. I thought judging from the synopsis and the trailer, we were reaching James Glickenhaus' Shakedown or Blind Fury or True Lies level of insane action sequences. More action movies should rise to the level of Sam Elliott shooting an airplane mid-air, Rutger Hauer slicing an guy's arm while said…
I was a huge Ron Howard fan as a kid, but somehow always slid past this because this didn't look like my thing. Watching it now made me realize that was a smart choice. Don't think I would get anything from this as a kid at all. At least now I can grasp something emotional it's attempting to get from the audience. But Jesus Henry Christ, is all this so painfully generic. This would be awesome if this was just…
Very surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie as a lot of animated movies are hard to really win me over. A lot are okay but most are mediocre and more than happy to play to the cheap seats. This works on so many levels. It's intense, action packed, funny, suspenseful, exciting, unique, and a lot of other words that could be used to describe how good it is. I love how much it's willing to play with the…
I really liked it. The animation is well done and I enjoyed a lot of the actors doing the voice work. It doesn't have the emotional depth that I feel like a lot of Wes Anderson's other movies have but that doesn't make it any less entertaining. It was something different from him, which I appreciated. The story is very simple but it works very well for what the movie is trying to accomplish. In a way, it feels very…
