El Camino de Xico

Very accurate view of the risks of unsustainable mining and consequences for nature and people and ... fun!

A Mexican animated film. It is about some people from a town who want to knock down a mountain and a girl with her best friend and her dog must save her. Excess of imagination that pleases. Characteristics of Mexican culture, although at times she feels loaded with a doctor, she makes a wonderful journey through culture: Mexican animals, joy. In 2D, although the animation is good, certain gestures and expressions in the characters were left behind. Parsimonious at times. It starts at a good pace and in the middle you feel that it lengthens a lot but the character to whom Alex Lora lends the voice completely saves the film and is the one who takes the comedy part, bringing the film to fruition. Predictable like all of the genre. Ideal for the whole family.

At some points the music just cuts off. It was bit bad.

The idea of the movie looks good, but the script is structured very abruptly. dialogues the plot is very twitchy

The rating is way too low. Yes, the characters are a bit one-sided, and yes, the story sometimes lacks of consistensy, but it is an animated movie made for children/family. And it woks perfectly in that regards. Visually stunning - a little bit similar to my beloved Tomm Moore movies, magical, and there are symbols everywhere. Culturally I guess is quite nice, but it's not my my place to judge from Europe. And it teaches a very important lesson.