educallejero

The movie has enough good (and at times great) action, character variety and pretty good character desing to entertain without much trouble. When the fights are between more than one character in both sides, is particularly well done.

But the main story is just full of scenes that feel more like filler than interesting in any way, which makes the conection between characters and of us with them and their situtations a little harder than in other better entrances with a better balance between action and "moving the plot forward" scenes.

The story also requires a random character to be important out of nowhere, just another reason the script feels sloppy.

Last point: voice acting felt a bit flat overall.

In the end, these animation movies for the most part put a lot of focus in the action and the dynamic story and in that sense, it gets the job done. It's just not much more than that.

The movie starts (20-30 minutes) "fine", quite annoying with MCU type quips and jokes that almost destroy the exposition destined to explain the main character and her circumstances (and a bit the secondary characters), but good enough to get us interested in the premise.

After that though, it quickly becomes non-stop nonsense, movie references, and repetetive action sequences full of "quirky" "jokes"/"gags" that were only embarrasing, if anything.

The plot and characters are so simple, we (me and my cousin) guessed what the movie was going to say and how it was going to end after15 minutes. Also the tonal disnonance between raunchy humor and "old school" sentimentality was jarring.

In the end, even Disney movies were/are more sophisticated in their way to tell this type of "feel good" stories.

But for some reason, I just didn't love the movie. The questions that raises are very interesting, and the performances are awesome, and yet when we start to "get" where the whole thing is going after the first 30 minutes (or before that), the scenes start to get a bit repetetive, which is intentional because we are supposed to live them through the protagonist mind. And yet, it doesn't change the fact that we are seeing scene after scene that communicates the same thing we already learned a couple of times already.

But still, everything is done with talent and the movie is never boring per se, just a bit less explosive than the tension it creates probably required to be more satisfying.