Went and saw the newest W&G flick as a special treat for Katherine.
Just gloriously lovely. Exciting without being scary (for a 5-year-old), cute bunnies and dim humans and general zaniness combined with typical W&G charm and humor. Bits for the parents to chuckle over even as the kiddies squeal.
How they manage so much expression from a voiceless, mouthless, uni-browed dog, I’ll never know.
In short — good stuff, well worth the 2.8 tons of Plasticine in 42 colors — and 1000 baby-wipes per week to wipe it off animators’ fingers as they produced 3 seconds a day — it took to make it. And well worth the $20-odd to go see it in the theater.
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This particular review had a great comment:
The idea of Anti-Pesto “humanely” dealing with pests like rabbits is pretty hilarious, especially to anyone who’s dealt firsthand with them ruining crops and gardens. Come to think of it, there’s a pretty clear streak of animal rights/vegetarianism running through the whole film (hardly surprising when one of your main characters is a dog who can drive a car), but the tone is – thankfully – never preachy. Maybe if PETA tried being funny instead of comparing eating meat to the Holocaust, they’d have a bigger following.
Indeed.