>>78206229I was lost when I first went into it, but I kept thinking that "It's a Laika film. They'll probably make sense of everything as it goes on.
Nope.
I was even MORE lost by the end of the movie.
And every "twist" in it my friend and I called out loud before it was even revealed.
Like for instance the crazy old guy
being Eggs' father for the few frames that we saw him on screen.
Madame whats-her-face being
Snatcher, etc.
We called them all and weren't surprised at any of the twists.
Not to mention the moral is summed up in the first like, 6 minutes of the movie "Yeah, we're the good guys" and you can even fucking tell that those two
Are going to have a change of heart. Not to mention most of the characters are either disturbing (in a non-charming way) or non-compelling.
It hit every cliche in the book, while trying to "mix it up" and "throw a curveball" but everything was predictable, and you've seen this message in about 90 other movies out there already.
I never got sucked in watching it and I was fully aware the whole time I was watching a movie. Or watching stop-motion puppets move around.
I really wanted to like it, and I went into it with that mindset, but it was a sorry disappointment for me, sadly