La Princesse et le monstre charmant

It's kinda like when your intimate photos or videos end up in someone else's hands, man. That person's wicked face, in this animated flick, is actually depicted as the bad guy we see. But you know what, even when someone's got something on you, you can't go against the love for your family. I absolutely love how the writer flipped the script on those prince charming tales. It's like a Santa Claus-level plot twist for me. Those dreamy stories, they might just be wrapping up another kind of lie. We're in the dark, unknowingly choosing to anticipate and believe in the intricate stories full of exaggerations and details.

Did anyone watch this movie? Is this Russian botnight? I was pleasantly surprised with the opening. How it wanted to grasp a steampunk like magic. But everything was clunky. The story, the animation and the acting. Horrible from A to S.

You know, Shrek was fine. It was funny, at places clever, but the animation was low tier. Frozen had 1 catch song, otherwise it was - let's face it - s-tear simple. Yes, I'm starting strong here, lol.

The first thing I saw here was the hair of the princess. It was messy, it was average-people hair, nothing like a Disney-princess' liquid metal hair. Even. Tangled had that very generic hair, mediocre animmation. The hair always tells how top-notch your animation will be.

This also has this slavic background, and one thing it gives is that 1800's looks in the 21th century. Wonderfuly anachronistic atmosphere. Just like the robot servants. The castle only has robots, some female servants, and a fashion-person. Not just for hijinks-sake, but for a good reason (overprotecting parent).

And this is another thing I just love. The worldbuilding. Everything has a reason, a good one. And even the references to other works fit into the story, and if you don't catch them, it doesn't hurt the experience. The twists will still work.

Let's limit myself, so someone will read this, but this is a genuin great animation, on the level of classic Disney. Give it a chance, please!

Right, well I had no idea that I was watching a Russian-made animated movie when I sat down here in 2023 to watch the 2021 animated movie "My Sweet Monster". It never struck me that the movie might be a dubbed version. But nonetheless, I watched the animated movie with my son.

I had no expectations really to the movie, as I hadn't heard about it prior to sitting down and watching it. But I will say that writers Aleksandr Arkhipov, Dmitriy Novoselov and Maksim Volkov put together a rather enjoyable script and storyline. It is definitely a story that follows an archetypical fantasy fable formula. But it works out quite well.

The version that I saw, the Englished dubbed version, had the voice talents of the likes of Pauly Shore and Jon Heder on the cast list, along with others whom I was unfamiliar with. And it was actually because of Shore and Heder on the movie's cover that I thought this was an American produced animated movie.

The animated movie could have fared better without the singing, especially since the English voice cast were relatively unable to carry proper notes. Most of the singing in "My Sweet Monster", at least in the English dubbed version, was rather cringeworthy.

Something that really impressed me about "My Sweet Monster" (with the original title being "Buka. Moyo Lyubimoe Chudishche") was the CGI and art style. The entire world in which the story took place had such an overwhelming attention to detail that it was just spectacular and breathtaking. It looked marvelous and it really made the world come to life on a very gratifying manner on the screen. I will actually say that "My Sweet Monster" is well worth watching for the CGI graphics themselves.

I was genuinely surprised and entertained by "My Sweet Monster", and if you enjoy animated movies, then you definitely should give this one a chance, should you have the opportunity to do so. It is an animated movie that has an appeal to children and adult alike.

My rating of "My Sweet Monster" lands on a seven out of ten stars.

My six year old daughter and I loved this movie and thought it was so nice that none of the new Disney nonsense was included! My daughter couldn't sit still because she thought it was so amazing with all the different turns and twists. She couldn't stop talking about Barbara and her adventures. Very cute. Lovely soundtrack.